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Congratulations to the #AAAI2021 best paper winners
Lucy Smith
05 Feb 2021
The AAAI-21 best paper awards were announced on Thursday 4th February during the opening ceremony of AAAI 2021. There were three best papers, three best paper runners-up, and six distinguished papers....
AI and climate change – a virtual briefing with Climate Change AI researchers
Lucy Smith
03 Feb 2021
In December, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung hosted a virtual briefing featuring researchers from Climate Change AI (CCAI). They talked about the role machine learning can play in facilitating climate change ...
AIhub launches focus series on climate action
AIhub
03 Feb 2021
As part of our ongoing focus on the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), we are launching the second topic in this series: climate action. Posts on this topic will be featured on our website throu...
What’s coming up at #AAAI2021?
Lucy Smith
01 Feb 2021
The 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2021) starts on Tuesday 2 February and runs until Tuesday 9 February. Find out about some of the main events that are taking place throughout t...
Mahjong competition at #IJCAI2020
Lucy Smith
29 Jan 2021
There were three competitions held as part of IJCAI-PRICAI2020 in January this year. One of these was the Mahjong Competition in which competitors were tasked with developing an intelligent Mahjong ag...
Congratulations to the #IJCAI2020 award winners
Lucy Smith
11 Jan 2021
The IJCAI-2020 awards were presented during the opening ceremony of IJCAI-PRICAI today. The awards included the 2020 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize and the AIJ Classic Paper and Prominent Paper Awards. F...
Focus on climate action: call for contributions
AIhub
08 Jan 2021
We are launching the second topic in our focus series on the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). In February we will start publishing posts relating the goal of "climate action", which is SDG num...
What’s coming up at IJCAI-PRICAI 2020?
Lucy Smith
07 Jan 2021
IJCAI-PRICAI2020, the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence starts today and will run until 15 Jan...
Computer vision app allows easier monitoring of glucose levels
University of Cambridge
06 Jan 2021
Reading diabetes monitor. Credit: James Charles
A computer vision technology developed by University of Cambridge engineers has now been integrated into a free mobile phone app for regular monitori...
Spain launches national AI strategy
AI4EU
18 Dec 2020
By Long Pham
On December 2nd, 2020 the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, presented the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial ...
AIhub launches focus series on good health and well-being
Lucy Smith
16 Dec 2020
We are delighted to announce the launch of our focus series on AI for Good: UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). Each month we will pick a different sustainable development goal (SDG) and highligh...
Preparing for emergency response with partial network information
Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech
15 Dec 2020
By Kristen Perez, Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech and School of Computational Science and Engineering.
Natural disasters cause considerable economic damage, loss of life, and network disrup...
Machine learning helps to map invasive plant from space
CSIRO
10 Dec 2020
Gamba grass can grow up to four metres high and forms dense tussocks which can burn as large, hot fires late in the dry season. Credit: NESP Northern Australia Hub.
Researchers from CSIRO, Charles ...
Tweet round-up from the first few days of #NeurIPS2020
Lucy Smith
09 Dec 2020
It's been a busy few days at NeurIPS 2020 so far with all manner of talks, workshops, tutorials and socials on offer. This selection of tweets gives a flavour of the various events and discussions tak...
Congratulations to the #NeurIPS2020 award winners
Lucy Smith
08 Dec 2020
The winners of the NeurIPS 2020 awards have been announced. This year, three papers have received Best Paper Awards. There was also one Test of Time Award; this recognises a paper that has had signifi...
What’s happening at #NeurIPS this week?
Lucy Smith
07 Dec 2020
The conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020 kicked off on Sunday 6th December and will run until Saturday 12th December. Here, we give a brief summary of many of the planned...
Focus on good health and well-being: call for contributions
Lucy Smith
26 Nov 2020
We are excited to announce that next month we will launching the AIhub focus issue on “AI for Good”, which will specifically concentrate on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each month ...
12th Asian Conference on Machine Learning
Lucy Smith
25 Nov 2020
Last week saw the virtual running of the 12th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML). The event had been due to be held in Thailand, but instead went online and the organisers decided to make all...
Fly AI report – demystifying and accelerating AI in aviation
AI4EU
19 Nov 2020
By Benjamin Cramet and Sylvie Grand-Perret
The first Fly AI report provides an overview of the many ways that artificial intelligence is already applied in the industry and assesses its potential t...
ODI Summit 2020
Lucy Smith
17 Nov 2020
Last week the Open Data Institute (ODI) hosted their annual summit. This year the event was held virtually and included keynote talks, panel discussions and expo booths. The summit brought together pe...
Applying deep learning algorithms to the task of clearing space junk
EPFL
16 Nov 2020
By Tanya Petersen
EPFL researchers are at the forefront of developing some of the cutting-edge technology for the European Space Agency’s first mission to remove space debris from orbit....
Fancy writing for AIhub? We are recruiting ambassadors
Lucy Smith
10 Nov 2020
Are you a PhD student or researcher with an interest in science communication? We are recruiting AIhub ambassadors to help us write about the latest news, research, conferences, and more, in the fiel...
AI-assisted camera system to monitor seabird behaviour
Lucy Smith
06 Nov 2020
Researchers from Osaka University have combined bio-logging cameras with a machine learning algorithm to help them to shed light on hidden aspects of the lives of seabird species, including gulls and ...
Using AI to help understand the evolution of young stars and their planets
University of New South Wales
30 Oct 2020
Bright flashes of light on a star's surface are stellar flares: powerful bursts of radiation caused by the release of a star's magnetic energy. Strong flares can be followed by an ejection of star mat...
New sparse RNN architecture applied to autonomous vehicle control
Lucy Smith
26 Oct 2020
The network in action - steering an autonomous car. Image is a screenshot from a video created by the authors: Mathias Lechner, Ramin Hasani, Alexander Amini, Thomas A. Henzinger, Daniela Rus & Radu G...
International conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS)
Lucy Smith
23 Oct 2020
This Sunday sees the start of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). This year the event is online and free for anyone to attend. Content will be availabl...
Space and artificial intelligence – an online conference
Lucy Smith
21 Oct 2020
On 4 September 2020 an online conference on the topic of space and artificial intelligence took place. The event was organised by CLAIRE and the European Space Agency (ESA) in association with ECAI202...
New device monitors blood glucose levels using radar and AI
University of Waterloo
15 Oct 2020
Researchers test a prototype of a new diabetes device for prick-free glucose monitoring.
New technology can quickly and accurately monitor glucose levels in people with diabetes without painful fin...
How machine learning can help to future-proof clinical trials in the era of COVID-19
University of Cambridge
08 Oct 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest global healthcare crisis of our generation, presenting enormous challenges to medical research, including clinical trials. Ad...
Ethics of connected and automated vehicles: a European Commission expert group report
Lucy Smith
02 Oct 2020
On 18 September the European Commission published a report on the Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs). Written by an independent group of experts, the report includes twenty recommendati...
Using machine learning to speed bioscaffold development
Rice University
29 Sep 2020
A “high quality” 3D-printed bioscaffold as designed with help from a machine learning algorithm developed at Rice University. Scale bar equals 1 millimetre. (Credit: Mikos Research Group/Rice Univ...
Regina Barzilay wins $1M Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Squirrel AI award
MIT News
24 Sep 2020
Regina Barzilay (Picture Credit: Rachel Wu, MIT CSAIL)
By Adam Conner-Simons
For more than 100 years Nobel Prizes have been given out annually to recognize breakthrough achievements in chemistry...
Archaeological search engine adds a new dimension to ‘digging’
Universiteit Leiden
23 Sep 2020
By Rianne Lindhout
Apps that can precisely identify shards, coins or heel bones: archaeology has embraced artificial intelligence. Alex Brandsen is working on a search engine that scans vast quanti...
AI shows how hydrogen becomes a metal inside giant planets
University of Cambridge
16 Sep 2020
©University of Cambridge
Researchers have used a combination of AI and quantum mechanics to reveal how hydrogen gradually turns into a metal in giant planets.
Dense metallic hydrogen – a phas...
Putting nanoscale interactions under the microscope
University of Illinois
09 Sep 2020
From left to right: graduate student Zihao Ou, Professor Qian Chen, and graduate student and lead author Lehan Yao.
By Lois Yoksoulian
Liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has rec...
European Commission AI white paper: feedback gathered by the Knowledge Centre Data & Society
Knowledge Centre Data & Society
07 Sep 2020
Image credit: ©AI4EU observatory
By Knowledge Centre Data & Society
On 4 June 2020, the Flemish Knowledge Centre Data & Society (KCDS) organised a consultation to gather feedback on the Europea...
