April 2nd, 2019

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          By Brian Orlotti

Three researchers, two of them Canadian, have won the 2019 Turing Award, generally considered to to be the world's top computer science award, for their work in developing machine learning and neural networks.

Université de Montréal professor Yoshua Bengio, University of Toronto professor emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and New York University professor Yann LeCun will each share the 2019 award.

The three have close ties and are perhaps best known for their work outside of academia...

          By Chuck Black

Almost a month after the March 6th, 2019 formal release of "Exploration, Imagination, Innovation - A New Space Strategy for Canada" by the governing Justin Trudeau Liberals, it's becoming increasingly obvious that the new Canadian space strategy is simply not the comprehensive "whole of government review" of activities, policies and legislation expected.

At the very least, it's certainly not a long-term space plan.

It is instead a very limited listing of upcoming Canadian Space Agency (CSA) activities and priorities focused almost entirely around component contributions to the US led Lunar Gateway, a program currently in a state of flux...