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Congratulations to the winner, Robert Osborne for his work on "Unstoppable: The Fentanyl Epidemic”
Gala Honouring Excellence in Non-Fiction Programming
It's an honour to be nominated...
David Paperny and I have been nominated for a 2018 Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing, Documentary. for Mohamed Fahmy Half Free.
Not mentioned in this nomination are two people who also deserve recognition - story editor Samantha Beck and editor Dom Basi. The film would have suffered without their substantial contribution. Thank you both. And thank you to David for asking me to be involved in the project.
R.I.P. Colin Low 1926-2016
“The National Film Board of Canada feels a profound sense of loss today. The NFB as a centre of excellence and innovation would not have existed as we know it without the enormous contributions of Colin Low. He was a great and committed public servant―and would speak of the pride he felt in creating cinema that served Canadians. He was tireless, visionary, generous in spirit, a true gentleman―a great Canadian and Albertan. Canada will not see his like again and we are forever in his debt,” said Claude Joli-Coeur, Government Film Commissioner and NFB Chairperson.
Colin Low (1926-2016) | The NFB and Canada Lose a True Pioneer of Cinema
R.I.P. Marvin Minsky 1927-2017
"We have many layers of networks of learning machines," he explained to me, "each of which has evolved to correct bugs or to adapt the other agencies to the problems of thinking." It is thus unlikely that the brain can be reduced to a particular set of principles or axioms, "because we're dealing with a real world instead of a mathematical one that is defined by axioms."
The Many Minds of Marvin Minsky (R.I.P.)
Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 (NY Times)
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