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Launch of the AI 4 Belgium Initiative

Submitted on 18 March 2019

"With Artificial Intelligence, we can improve our lives"

AI 4 Belgium Coalition proposes AI strategy at the request of Alexander De Croo and Philippe De Backer

More info on: http://www.ai4belgium.be.

AI, Creativity & Art in the Digital Spring

Submitted on 18 March 2019

How can AI be creative? Find out at the AI, Creativity & Art event organized by VUB, ULB and Gluon on Thursday 21 March at 17h. Featured are three world-renowned speakers, art exhibitions and demos of the AI Lab.

More info on: https://www.vub.ac.be/events/2019/ai-creativity-art-in-the-digital-spring.

Interview Luc Steels on radio station Klara

Submitted on 11 March 2019

On Sunday March 10th, Prof. Em. Luc Steels of the AI Lab gave an interview on radio station Klara about AI and its role in today's world of fear and misunderstandings.

Listen to it here:

https://klara.be/pat-donnez-praat-met-prof-artificiele-intelligentie-en-...

Homo Roboticus event

Submitted on 7 February 2019

On February 7, VUB is launching the book "Homo Roboticus" about the impact of robotics and AI on today's society. The event, which takes place in opera house De Munt in Brussels. is concluded with the performance of the opera "Fausto", a story about a world where humanity is threatened by evil intelligent robots, written by founder of the AI Lab Luc Steels.

More information on http://homo-roboticus.be.

Post-doctoral position in Computational Linguistics

Submitted on 13 December 2018
vacancy

We are looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher (100%) to join the research group on Evolutionary and Hybrid AI (https://know.ai.vub.ac.be) to work on an ongoing 4-year Horizon 2020 project.

The project, ODYCCEUS (https://www.odycceus.eu), focuses on capturing information circulating on social media and online discussion fora to better understand and analyse a number of problems that our contemporary society is facing today such as immigration, climate change and national identity.

AI Lab alumnus Pattie Maes wins Innovator Prize 2018

Submitted on 15 November 2018

On November 14th, Pattie Maes, head of the Fluid Interfaces group at MIT's Media Lab and alumnus of the VUB Artificial Intelligence Lab, was awarded the INSEAD Innovator Prize 2018 for her pioneering role in artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.

The AI Lab was there to congratulate Pattie in person and to show its latest cutting-edge research.

Best student paper award at ICTAI 2018

Submitted on 13 November 2018

Felipe Gomez, Pieter Libin and Timothy Verstraeten of the VUB AI Lab won the best student award at the ICTAI conference for their new deep learning method for 3D point segmentation. Congratulations!

Bart de Boer: Luistert je smartphone je af?

Submitted on 21 June 2018
Bart de Boer
speech recognition
radio
privacy
smartphone

Recent verschenen in de media enkele artikelen met de suggestie dat Facebook via de smartphone zou meeluisteren met gesprekken en op basis daarvan advertenties toont. Professor Bart de Boer gaf in Nieuwe Feiten op Radio 1 zijn opinie hierover. Misschien houden we gewoon onszelf voor de gek en hebben we te maken met confirmation bias? In het interview geeft hij ook enkele tips om dit zelf uit te testen.

We are launching the AI Fab Lab

Submitted on 13 June 2018
AI Fab Lab

The VUB AI LAB will launch the first AI Fab Lab, a high-tech playground where researchers, students and SME employees/tech entrepreneurs can collaborate to develop and produce local technological solutions to local problems. We are looking for sponsors to help set up this exciting initiative! For more information follow this link.

 

Conference on Opinion DYnamics and Cultural Conflict in EUropean Space

Submitted on 28 May 2018
Frame-based language processing
Tracking opinions
Conceptual spaces
Katrien Beuls
ODYCCEUS
conference

The lab is co-organising the 1st Odycceus conference on Opinion DYnamics and Cultural Conflict in EUropean Space from 18-22 June in Leipzig.  

The ODYCCEUS project is part of European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The project seeks conceptual breakthroughs in Global Systems Science, including a fine-grained representation of cultural conflicts based on conceptual spaces and sophisticated text analysis, extensions of game theory to handle games with both divergent interests and divergent mindsets, and new models of alignment and polarization dynamics.

The conference will cover all topics that we are working on in the project ranging from game theory, over opinion dynamics modeling up to natural language processing and opinion mapping. There will be sessions on projective game theory, frames alignment and polarization, conceptual spaces for political communication or precision language analysis for argument mining.

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