This is referenced as a big deal, but $5 million through 25 post-secondary institutions across amounts to $200K each (probably much less after overhead), which is essentially one professor and a few students. Coordinating something like this is hard, and it's less likely to be coherent than we might think, and it seems like a lot of work to benefit only 125,000 students. Here's the announcement from the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII), which is coordinating the grant, which it describes as workforce readiness, and which will in part support travel to Upper Bound, AMII's conference. Via George Siemens.
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