Faculty of Computer Science Iasi

https://www.facebook.com/FacultateaDeInformaticaUAICIasi/posts/1504612689637013

Next edition of the European Universities & Graduate Schools Innovation Championship, the Morpheus Cup, to be held in Paris in 2018:

Next edition of the European Universities & Graduate Schools Innovation Championship, the Morpheus Cup, to be held in Paris in 2018 On April 12th 2018, top European talents from 120 campuses will compete in the fourth edition of the Morpheus Cup to showcase their skills and highlight their most innovative projects. After Luxemb…

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608272/microsoft-thinks-ai-will-fill-your-blind-spots-not-take-over-your-job/

Microsoft wants AI to fill your blind spots, not take over your job The company is looking to improve the way AI and humans get along, but it says we should think differently about how we ask machines to explain themselves.

“The general issue is that large parts of the research done is publicly funded, the type setting and quality control [peer review] is done by people who are paid by the public, [and] the purchase of the journals is also paid by the public. So it’s a bit too much payment.”
http://mobile.the-scientist.com/article/49906/major-german-universities-cancel-elsevier-contracts

Major German Universities Cancel Elsevier Contracts These institutions join around 60 others that hope to put increasing pressure on the publishing giant in ongoing negotiations for a new nationwide licensing agreement.

Top 15 internship salaries in the Silicon Valley of USA. It would be interesting to know the top ten for the Silicon Valley of Romania ;)

RANKED: The 15 tech companies that pay interns the most $8,000 a month for an entry-level position? Internship salaries in Silicon Valley are insane.

Think about the great opportunity to join IBM Research as an intern through IBM's The Great Mind Challenge! See what you have to do, find your professor to in the faculty to nominate you and have everything ready by 20 February 2017! Good luck!

https://www.zurich.ibm.com/greatminds/

Great Minds student internships at IBM Research Great Minds student internships at IBM Research. Pitch your vision of the most exciting IT challenges and win an internship at IBM Research

Register yourself & your team for the Google Hash Code competition til February 5, and you'll enjoy a nice atmosphere (Google goodies included ;) )!

https://hashcode.withgoogle.com/

Hash Code 2017 by Google Team up to solve a real-life engineering problem from Google. Are you up for the challenge?

Useful hints especially for young researchers

10 tips for writing a truly terrible journal article Publish or perish? If you screw up, it might be publish and perish. Poor articles, even a single one, can ruin a scientist’s career. As the old saying goes, “you only get one chance to make a first impression”.

The recent AI and machine learning push is dependent on the labeling and synthesis of huge amounts of training data.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-big-data-trends-that-will-shape-ai-in-2017/

5 big data trends that will shape AI in 2017 - TechRepublic AI and machine learning are dependent on large amounts of data. But big data is hard to organize and analyze. Here's what experts are looking out for in the coming year, when it comes to data.