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Humans identify emotions in the voices of all air-breathing vertebrates

Submitted on 26 July 2017
publication

Amphibians, reptiles, mammals – all of them communicate via acoustic signals. And humans are able to assess the emotional value of these signals. This has been shown in a new study conducted by researchers at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ruhr-Universität Bochum, in collaboration with colleagues from Alberta, Canada, and Vienna, Austria, in the journal “Proceedings of the Royal Society B”. The team was headed Dr Piera Filippi.

 

Deelnemers gezocht voor een experiment rond Intelligent Advice Systems

Submitted on 22 June 2017

Ben je Nederlandstalig? Kennis of geen kennis van elektronica?

Het AI-lab ontwikkelt een Intelligent Advice System voor de human-centered factories van de toekomst. De onderzoeksgroep roept daarom studenten op om deel te nemen aan een aantal experimenten. Dit kan elke werkdag van 15 juni tot en met 14 juli tussen 9u, 11u, 13u, 15u en 17u. In ruil voor je deelname ontvang je een cinematiceket.

Two PhD positions available

Submitted on 18 May 2017
vacancy

The AI lab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels is looking to fill two paid PhD positions: one to model the acquisition of speech using spectrotemporal features and dynamic Bayesian networks. and a second one to model the cultural evolution of Kata Kolok, a village sign language using an agent-based model. These projects are part of a larger research group investigating the emergence and evolution of language and speech. Envisaged starting date is October 1st 2017.

The AI lab is hiring a new professor

Submitted on 22 February 2017
vacancy

Professor (100%, all levels) - Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence (1.0 fte)

Job description

The candidate will join the AI lab (ai.vub.ac.be) of the Department of Computer Science. The candidate is expected to contribute to the research and teaching of the AI team. The lab has strong national as well as international collaborations and based in the heart of Brussels, offers plenty of possibilities for collaboration with industry.

The AI lab co-organises the next ACAI summerschool on Reinforcement Learning

Submitted on 22 February 2017
summer school
Reinforcement learning
We’re happy to announce that this year’s ACAI summer school will be solely devoted to Reinforcement Learning (basics and recent developments), a branch of machine learning that focuses on learning from interaction with an uncertain environment and potential peers. The school will be organized from 7th until 14th October 2017 in Nieuwpoort, Belgium.

PNAS Publication on the Evolution of Cognition

Submitted on 5 April 2016

Are humans hard-wired with domain-specific knowledge that allows us to learn language? How could that knowledge have got there? A new paper in Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA by AI lab member Bill Thompson and colleagues explores the evolution of cognition in populations of learners who learn from eachother.

PhD position: Open-ended Robot Interaction

Submitted on 4 April 2016
vacancy

We are looking for a highly motivated student with a major in Artificial Intelligence or Computer Science who has a strong interest in natural language modelling and symbolic computation. Your research project will be embedded in the Marie Curie ITN (Initial Training Network) project called ESSENCE (Evolution of Shared Semantics in Computational Environments).

For more information on this position and how to apply: http://www.essence-network.eu/node/23

AI lab in VUB Today

Submitted on 19 February 2016

VUB today nieuwssite rapporteert over de NAR Breakthrough nominatie

Internship: computational linguist / grammar engineer

Submitted on 1 February 2016
vacancy

Internship: computational linguist / grammar engineer

Duration: 6 months

Starting date: immediately

Peter McBurney inaugural speech (Vloebergh chair)

Submitted on 27 January 2016
Vloebergh chair
Peter McBurney

The VUB has appointed the Vloeberghsleerstoel 2015-2016 to Peter McBurney, head of the Department of Informatics, King’s College, London, UK.

The inaugural lecture "What are models for? The nature of modeling and simulation" takes place on Friday 26th of February, at 4pm in aula Q.B of the VUB-Etterbeek Campus. 

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