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The University of Toronto is home to Geoffrey Hinton and his research lab. Hinton was the first to use backpropagation for machine learning and a lot of the techniques used today were pioneered by his lab. He is also manages the Google Brain team in Toronto.

Yann LeCun, the director of AI at Facebook, also did a postdoc at Toronto.

[0] http://learning.cs.toronto.edu:40292/people#Faculty

[1] http://yann.lecun.com/

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Also, Hinton (and others) are launching a giant AI labs. Lots of government and partner funding (Google, Nvidia, etc).

http://vectorinstitute.ai/

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and some more. here is a neat little article re: Hinton's network effect!

"Six degrees of separation: how U of T's Geoffrey Hinton is connected to top AI researchers around the world" https://www.utoronto.ca/news/six-degrees-separation-how-u-t-...

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+ Yoshua Bengio in Montreal.