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Join us in our Hackathon on Open Education and Artificial Intelligence

AI for the Common Good: F’AI’R Education Hackathon

K4A is facilitating a  hackathon supported by the UK Science and Innovation Network at the British Embassy in Paris, the United Nations ANCSSC, and H2020 project X5GON to allow students at several international universities to take part in an early requirements capture process, leading to design and build stage to develop a working prototype that supports Open Education with AI. Join us in this endeavor and see here for more details.

Public consultation on new United Nations center in Artificial Intelligence

The Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport held a meeting on 25 October, to discuss the setting up and role of the International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO. The purpose of the Center will be to provide an open and transparent environment that, in addition to research, technology and discussions in the field of artificial intelligence, will provide stakeholders worldwide with public-policy support in the preparation of artificial intelligence orientations and action plans. K4A has played a key role in the founding of the center.

Digital Credentials Masterclass a success

The Digital Credentials Masterclass in Bled, Slovenia has brought together key experts to fuel the discussion on the future development of micro-credentialing. We explored various aspects like access to education, development and information on learning opportunities, programme delivery, quality assurance, recognition or credit transfer and accumulation. We successfully presented our work on Credentify, the first European blockchain clearinghouse for credentials.

Setting up a European Network of AI Excellence Centres

The HumaneAI project, delivering the roadmap for a new science in Artificial Intelligence, has met in Den Haag, the Netherlands in order to understand the scope for the H2020 call on European Network of Artificial Intelligence Excellence Centres.

HumaneAI interview series: Ville Mäkelä, LMU München

Ville Mäkelä, LMU München
Ville Mäkelä, LMU München

My blue sky project for AI is to make better humans, to improve the quality of life, to enable humans to do things that they perhaps couldn’t do before, to make people better than the best people out there currently.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

HumaneAI interview series: Giuseppe Manco, Research ICAR-CNR

Giuseppe Manco, Research ICAR-CNR
Giuseppe Manco, Research ICAR-CNR

My bluesky project is to have the possibility of AI enhancing user experience.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

HumaneAI interview series: Andrea Passarella, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica

Andrea Passarella, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica
Andrea Passarella, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica

My bluesky project is to understand what is the interplay between huge amount of small pieces of AI, that work together to build a collective AI system.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

HumaneAI interview series: Marco Pistore, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Marco Pistore, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Marco Pistore, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

My bluesky project is to fund bottom-up research in order to make it robust and solve the problems we will face in the next years.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

HumaneAI interview series: Sirko Straube, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

Sirko Straube, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Sirko Straube, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

My bluesky project is to really integrate AI into a society.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

HumaneAI interview series: Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

My dream for the Human AI project is to build myself a colleague. I want AI to be my scientific colleague.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures