The Short Report - March 27, 2019: ThunderFish, Friesen Prize, godfathers of AI

Dr. Ian Potter will take over as CEO at Vineland Research and Innovation Centre, a not-for-profit in the Niagara Region dedicated to horticultural science. Potter previously held executive positions at the National Research Council, Alberta Innovates, and the Alberta Research Council. - Canada.com

McGill University professor Dr. Bartha Knoppers has been awarded the 2019 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research for her work on the ethics of biomedical research in human genetics and genomics. - McGill

David Dexter will be the new director of Sheridan College's Screen Industries Research and Training Centre (SIRT), which supports technology innovation within Ontario’s screen industries. - Twitter

Kraken Robotic Systems Inc. will receive $1 million from the federal government through the Build in Canada Innovation Program for its ThunderFish 300 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), to be delivered to Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC) for testing later this year. - The Telegram

The Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) has opened its new Carrefour d’entrepreneuriat et d’innovation Desjardins (CEI-Desjardins), which will include a laboratory for research on entrepreneurship and SMEs. - Université du Québec

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun — the "Godfathers of AI" — are sharing the $1-million 2018 A.M. Turing Award. Hinton is associated with University of Toronto and serves as chief science advisor at the Vector Institute; Bengio is associated with Université de Montréal and is the founder and scientific director of Mila (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms); Lecun did his postdoctoral research with Hinton at the University of Toronto and now holds the position of Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist at Facebook AI Research. - The Verge