News — FCAI

Elements of AI online course to be launched in EU countries

Finland will make the Elements of AI online course available to EU citizens in 2020–2021.

Guest UserMay 6, 2020Education

New Webinar: AI and Data Science against COVID-19

Webinar on how AI and data science can help fight the COVID-19.

Guest UserApril 28, 2020Events, COVID-19

AI makes dentists’ work easier – new model helps localise the mandibular canals

Finnish researchers have developed a new automatized way to localise mandibular canals.

Guest UserApril 21, 2020Research, Healthcare, Neural Networks

“Access to education is a human right”

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 eventGuest UserApril 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.

Guest UserApril 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.

ELLISGuest UserMarch 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