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HIIT celebrated its 20th anniversary
HIIT was founded in 1999 to enhance the quality, visibility and impact of Finnish research on information technology. The 20th anniversary gave an opportunity to reflect on the role that HIIT has played at various levels.
The reflections started from the big picture. Collaboration between the two [...]
AIX Forum: Economics and Causal Reasoning
Discovering causal mechanisms that explain observed properties and behaviours in both nature and human societies is a central goal in natural sciences, economics, and many other fields of study. Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) and Helsinki Graduate School of Economics (Helsinki GSE) invite you to a joint informal seminar on causal [...]
Computer vision identifies ripe fruit and counterfeit drugs
When would this avocado be suitably ripe for making guacamole? Is the drug I bought on my travels to far-off places the real thing or a fake? How big an apple crop are we getting this year? Soon, answers to questions like these will be easily obtained, as computer vision technology developed by researchers will be made [...]
European Big Data Value Forum 2019
The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) is the main event of the European Big Data and Data-Driven AI Research and Innovation community. EBDVF2019 aims to continue the success of previous editions, where on average every year around 700 industry professionals, business developers, researchers, and policymakers coming from 40 different [...]
Ten research papers from FCAI accepted to the prestigious NeurIPS conference
Research conducted at the Finnish Centre for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) is well presented at this year’s NeurIPS conference. In total, the conference has accepted ten submissions from either Aalto University or the University of Helsinki. NeurIPS is the largest [...]
MyData 2019
MyData 2019 conference is a place for accelerating global change towards a human-centric approach to personal data. On 25-27 September 2019, some 1000 experts from business, legal, tech and society sectors will gather for the fourth time in Helsinki, with the focus on how to effect the change we need.
Forty Years of Unsupervised Machine Learning
Aalto University
September 18th, 2019 at 3.00pm
in Lecture hall T2, Aalto CS Building,
Konemiehentie 2, Espoo
RIOT Summit 2019
Over the last four years, RIOT has been emerged as one of the agile and state of the art operating system for the IoT. The previous Summits were a big success. It’s time to meet again face-to-face!
The RIOT Summit aims for bringing together RIOTers, beginners and experts, as well as people interested in the IoT in general and decision makers who plan to deploy RIOT [...]
2019 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize
The 2019 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize awarded article, co-authored by Matti Järvisalo, was selected from more than 250 articles published in the preceding five calendar years in the leading AI journal Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
Marijn Heule (now at Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Matti Järvisalo (Constraint Reasoning and Optimization Group [...]
Deep learning model developed by Finnish AI researchers detects diabetic eye diseases accurately
Finnish AI researchers have developed a deep learning system that shows great potential in detecting diabetic eye diseases, which could facilitate doctors’ work and decrease healthcare expenses.
According to the research findings [...]
Finland offers AI training to inmates
All inmates in Finnish prisons have now access to the Elements of AI online course, a widely popular introductory course on artificial intelligence.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re behind the bars, AI is affecting everyone’s life. There are also important ethical and political questions concerning the use of AI. What we [...]
