A high-level delegation from the Czech Republic has visited FCAI. Ethical application of artificial intelligence was the core of the visit, as making use of AI ethically, calls for collaboration with like-minded countries in Europe.
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One of the most competitive supercomputers in the world will be placed in Kajaani, Finland. According to the CSC Datacenter that will host the new supercomputer, the new machine will be about ten times more powerful than the most powerful supercomputer currently in Europe.
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All inmates in Finnish prisons have now access to Elements of AI, a widely popular introductory course on artificial intelligence.
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The City of Helsinki has announced that it will become a partner of the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI). By joining FCAI, Helsinki wants to support its goals in terms of collaboration with universities, competitiveness, and digitalization.
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FCAI partner Vake Oy launches its development program for Finnish artificial intelligence in May 2019. The first project aims to create language resources for man-machine interaction in Finnish.
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The Nordic AI Network aims to make the Nordic region a global hub in AI research, education and innovation.
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A paper by an FCAI team, “Deep learning with differential Gaussian process flows” was awarded the 2019 Notable paper award at the 2019 AI & Statistics conference.
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The Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI has named an Impact Advisory Board with a broad spectrum of expertise.
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Researchers at Aalto University, as part of an international collaboration, have used computational methods to place keyboard characters for easier, more comfortable typing. The result is a new keyboard standard introduced by France on 2 April 2019.
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The Alan Turing Institute and The Finnish Centre for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU).
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Mark Girolami has been appointed adjunct professor in the Computer Science department at Aalto University. Professor Girolami is Programme Director at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute for Data Science and AI.
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The second annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Helsinki conference was organized in Biomedicum Helsinki on International Women’s Day, Friday, March 8.
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An international research team recently conducted the first population-based and genome-wide bacterial transcriptomics study, combined with dense longitudinal genome data and virulome characterization using an animal model.
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The Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support women in the field. This annual one-day technical conference provides an opportunity to hear about the latest data science related research and applications in a broad set of domains.
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The Finnish public broadcaster Yle gathered the leaders of the major political parties to discuss the future of AI in early February. FCAI’s professor Jaakko Lehtinen together with philosopher Maija-Riitta Ollila commented on the debate on Yle KIOSKIxAI program.
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The Helsinki Distinguished Lecture Series on Future Information Technology got an excellent start for 2019, when the large auditorium of the Otaniemi TUAS building was packed full for Tommi Jaakkola‘s talk.
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On January 22nd FCAI hosted its Industrial Research Highlight day at Aalto university. The purpose of the day was to bring together FCAI’s academics and industrial partners to discuss shared problems and to workshop future research ideas for the center.
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A research team led by FCAI professor Jukka Corander has created a new machine learning method for the analysis of bacterial genomes. Thanks to its computational efficiency, the new method can handle an order of magnitude larger data sets than the previous methods, and is applicable at the level of pangenomes of most pathogenic bacteria.
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As a part of Finland’s venture to become a forerunner in the application of AI technologies, the Ministry of Finance has been spearheading a public network of AI infrastructure called AuroraAI. FCAI Society is helping the project by providing a critical eye to the ethical dimensions of the venture.
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The Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) has been selected as a Flagship of the Academy of Finland, which is a status granted to very few selected centers of excellence with high societal impact.
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