Former Facebook staffer back to do artificial intelligence research

Former Facebook employee Kevin Waugh gave up the perks of the company’s California campus last spring for an Edmonton job with the research subsidiary of another tech giant.
Waugh, a Canadian who spent seven years at the University of Alberta getting his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in artificial intelligence, is now a research scientist for DeepMind, owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet.
The 11-member Edmonton office is one of DeepMind’s three facilities ou