The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Science and Engineering Research, known as Alberta Ingenuity, is providing funding to begin the AICML.
I was interviewed by CBC to discuss it. You can see the interview here. Here, though is a snippet of the news release:
"The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Science and Engineering Research, known as Alberta Ingenuity, will provide as much as 14-million dollars over the next five years to establish two new "ingenuity" centres at the U of A. One is in the emerging computing field of Machine Learning. Russ Greiner will direct that new centre. Here is Professor Greiner talking about what his research will be about."