| Biography |
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| I was born in Calgary, and raised on an acreage nearby. When I was five, my family moved to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where I was schooled almost exclusively in Spanish. After nearly seven years, we returned to Canada. I currently live in Cochrane, Alberta, with both my parents and a younger brother. I am attending grade 10 at Cochrane High School where I am a member of the Sustainable Development Committee and the Debate Club. This year I won my second gold medal out of two years at the Calgary Youth Science Fair, but it is my first visit to the nationals. Also this year I was best in my school for the Cayley math competition. In 2005, I won best in my school for a Scholastic Challenge competition. After High School, I hope to study Engineering, Neuroscience or Physics. My personal interests include math, science, photography, film-making and nearly anything to do with computers. |
| Michael Smith
Shortcut Connections in Artificial Neural Networks
| Division: | Earth & Environmental Sciences / None | | Category: | Intermediate | | Region: | Calgary Youth | | City: | Cochrane, AB | | School: | Cochrane High School | | Abstract: | This project was a study of whether short-cut connections improve the efficiency of Neural Networks. These are programs that attempt to learn patterns in data and to generalize from them. The idea of short-cut is relatively unexplored, as it breaks the traditional layered architecture. These shortcut connections proved beneficial, reducing the time spent training and the amount of computations done by the computer. |
| Awards | Value | The University of Western Ontario Scholarship
Silver Medallist - $1500 Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor: University of Western Ontario | $1 500.00 | Silver Medal - Computing & Information Technology
Intermediate
Sponsor: Intel of Canada, Ltd. | $700.00 | | Total | $2 200.00 | |
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