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Do you want to know more about how to develop responsible AI? Andreas Theodorou will tell you more:

When: Fredag, 11 October, 13.00-13.45

Where: MIT-Place in MIT-huset

The seminars are part of the course ELSEC, organised through the AI Competence for Sweden initiative.

Do you want to know more about what collaborative AI and Explainable AI are? Helena Lindgren and Kary Främling will tell you more:

When: Fredag, 11 October

8.30-9.15: What is Collaborative AI? (Helena Lindgren)

9.15-10.00: Explainability (Kary Främling)

Where: MIT-Place in MIT-huset

The seminars are part of the course ELSEC, organised through the AI Competence for Sweden initiative.

Do you want to know more about what socialAI is? Frank Dignum will tell you more:

When: Fredag, 4 October, 13.00-13.45

Where: MIT-Place in MIT-huset

The seminar is part of the course ELSEC, organised through the AI Competence for Sweden initiative.

Do you want to know more about what AI and responsible AI is? Juan Carlos Nieves and Virginia Dignum will tell you more:

When: Fredag, 4 October, 8.40-10.00

Where: MIT-Place in MIT-huset

The seminar is part of the course ELSEC, organised through the AI Competence for Sweden initiative.

AI Competence for Sweden is a national effort to increase competence in AI in Sweden. As part of the AI Competence for Sweden efforts at Umeå University, we  hereby invite researchers and teachers at Umeå University to apply for resources to be spent at Umeå University during 2019 to:
1)    Transform/develop existing AI-courses to make them accessible to professionals in industry and in the AI Sweden portal,
2)    Further develop AI modules, or include (more) AI in existing courses at basic or advanced levels.

We would like to encourage in particular development initiatives at the Humanities, Social Sciences and Medical faculties.

Apply for development resources using this link.

Deadline for the application Round 1: 2019-09-16 (notification Sep 23) (closed)
Note that the resources to be allocated to a course will not exceed 40 hours. The effort will be similar in size as in 2018 – about 520 hours will be allocated to 15-20 courses. A report should be submitted December 8th at the latest.

Deadline for the application Round 2: 2019-11-08 (notification Nov 12)
Note that the resources to be allocated to a course will not exceed 40 hours. The effort will be similar in size as in 2018 – about 520 hours will be allocated to 15-20 courses. A report should be submitted January 8th 2020 at the latest.

Participation in the AI Education@UmU workshop on September 5 is encouraged for all who plan to submit an application! More info on the workshop and registration form can be found here.

 

Seminar by Johannes Oetsch
Department of Computing Science

Title: Reasoning

Date: April 10.

Time:  10.30 – 11.30.

Place:  Seminar Room by the MIT Place, MIT-huset

Seminar by Timotheus Kampik, Juan Carlos Nieves
Department of Computing Science

Title: Engineering Multiagent Systems – the Road Ahead

Date: March 20.

Time:  10.30 – 11.30.

Place:  Seminar Room by the MIT Place, MIT-huset

We are pleased to invite everybody interested to an expert panel on AI & Social Media: a Threat to Democracy? on Friday, November 30th, 12:00-13:00, in the foyer (MIT place) of MIT-Huset, Umeå University. The panel is part of Study Friday and the AI Sweden education initiative. Register to the Study Friday using this link. For a lunch sandwich, register no later than lunch Wednesday Nov 28 !

The panelists will be:

The following persons will join the panel:

• Viktor Hariz, Journalist, Sveriges Radio
• Johanna Björklund, CTO of CodeMill (among other roles)
• Kai-Florian Richter, Associate Professor, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University
• Christopher Blöcker, IceLab, Umeå University

Moderators are Anna Jonsson, Adam Dahlgren Lindström and Timotheus Kampik

Feel free to spread the word.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!