News — FCAI

Host universities of FCAI offer dozens of online courses that support lifelong learning of people coming from all kinds of backgrounds.

Impact storyKaisa PekkalaApril 15, 2020Education

Making the most of AI – A new instrument fosters collaboration between researchers and companies

FCAI Industry & Society workshops provide a new forum for co-creation between research and industry.

ISP eventAnu HaapalaApril 14, 2020Events, Industry and Society

AI can help tackle the COVID-19 outbreak – these FCAI projects focus on the new coronavirus

AI and machine learning methods can help tackle the coronavirus epidemic in many ways.

Anu HaapalaApril 14, 2020Research, Science, Healthcare, COVID-19

The European Commission offers significant support to Europe’s AI excellence

The European Commission has decided to fund ELISE, a project proposal that specifically focuses on fundamental research in AI, driven by machine learning.

ELLISAnu HaapalaMarch 18, 2020Collaboration

Three-year project on testing of machine learning systems launched

New research aims to develop methods and tools for the creation of safe and reliable AI systems. An interest group for Finnish companies is also planned.

Kaisa PekkalaMarch 6, 2020Research

New doctoral students starting work on multidisciplinary applications of AI

Eleven new doctoral students at the University of Helsinki are specialising in multidisciplinary applications of artificial intelligence.

Kaisa PekkalaMarch 4, 2020Education

FCAI supports the Finnish government’s new expert group on AI and digitalization

Sirpa Paatero, the Finnish Minister of Local Government, has set up a new expert group on artificial intelligence and digitalization. Several members of FCAI were appointed as the expert group members.

Kaisa PekkalaFebruary 17, 2020Collaboration, Society

Predictive models can guide the development of better vaccines and vaccination programmes

Researchers from the University of Helsinki in Finland, Simon Fraser University in Canada and Imperial College London combined genomic data, models of bacterial evolution and machine learning to predict how vaccines could be optimised for specific age groups, geographic regions and communities of bacteria.

Kaisa PekkalaFebruary 6, 2020Research, Healthcare

AIX Forum gives the floor to people who need AI the most

FCAI has received plenty of positive feedback for the new train of events that provides a meeting place for researchers of different disciplines, companies and public organizations interested in AI.

Economic impactKaisa PekkalaJanuary 23, 2020Events, Economy, Society

”Machine learning excited me before I knew it was a thing”

Arno Solin is excited about machine learning, as it offers a way to both delve deep into theory and solve real-life problems.

Kaisa PekkalaJanuary 13, 2020Humans of FCAI

Machine learning in chemistry - algorithms help finding minimum energy paths and saddle points more effectively

Machine learning brings new possibilities to many areas of research - also chemical research, which is shown in a recent dissertation written at the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence.

Kaisa PekkalaJanuary 8, 2020Research, Machine Learning

Neural network for elderly care could save millions

A deep neural network model helps predict healthcare visits by elderly people, with the potential to save millions.

Economic impactKaisa PekkalaDecember 13, 2019Research, Healthcare, Neural Networks

Helsinki and FCAI will host a new ELLIS unit for top AI research

FCAI will host one of the new European units of top AI research, as the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems will establish one of its first units in Finland.

ELLISKaisa PekkalaDecember 11, 2019Collaboration

Jaakko Lehtinen receives an ERC Consolidator Grant of nearly 2 million euros

The European Research Council Consolidator Grant goes to Professor Jaakko Lehtinen for a project to build a computer that 'sees' the real world much better than the current methods do.

Kaisa PekkalaDecember 11, 2019Research, Machine Learning

Designing AI that understands humans’ goals better

To make a better smart assistant, we need an AI that understands its user and does not constantly need detailed instructions.

Kaisa PekkalaDecember 5, 2019Research, Science, Machine Learning

How ‘AI ready’ is Europe? How AI changes cancer research and treatment? These and many other topics were discussed at AI Day 2019

FCAI’s third annual AI Day organized on November 26 attracted hundreds of participants to discuss and hear about the newest trends in AI research.

Kaisa PekkalaNovember 29, 2019Events

Everyone has their secrets – machine learning needs to respect privacy

FCAI professor Antti Honkela studies how to make AI privacy-preserving

rc23Kaisa PekkalaNovember 21, 2019Humans of FCAI

How ecological is AI? How to compose with a neural network? Come to AI exhibition to find out!

A new exhibition by Aalto Digi Platform and FCAI combines science and arts and sheds light on the history, state of art, and future of AI.

Kaisa PekkalaNovember 19, 2019Events

Finnish Flagships join forces for next generation networks

FCAI and 6G Flagship are joining forces to harness the synergy between edge computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI), which are revolutionizing communication networks and becoming key components of next generation networks.

Kaisa PekkalaNovember 13, 2019Collaboration, Edge AI

Computer vision identifies ripe fruit and counterfeit drugs

Researchers are developing an application based on AI algorithms that works in regular smartphones and brings extremely accurate hyperspectral imaging within anyone’s reach.

Kaisa PekkalaOctober 29, 2019Research