Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Congratulations to Luis Rei on successfully defending his PhD thesis: Machine learning methodology for automatic metadata assignment in cultural heritage archives 🎉

Congratulations to Klemen Kenda on successfully defending his PhD thesis: Pre-processing of Heterogeneous Data Streams for Internet of Things Applications 🎉

Abdul Sittar has defended his PhD: Information Spreading Barriers in News. Congratulations!

🎉 Congratulations to dr. Jose Martin Rozanec

🎤 Dunia Mladenic gave an interview on RTV Slovenija for the show Podobe znanja titled: Glavni problem pri umetni inteligenci so nerealistična pričakovanja (in Slovene)
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📜 The show spoke about AI and its further development as central importance for our world.
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🎧 The interview is available on this link
https://365.rtvslo.si/arhiv/podobe-znanja/174909482
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Dunja Mladenić: Glavni problem pri umetni inteligenci so nerealistična pričakovanja Umetna inteligenca je ena najbolj ključnih, prelomnih tehnologij današnjega časa. Prav zato je vprašanje smeri njenega nadaljnjega razvoja osrednjega pomena za naš svet.

🎉 Congratulations to all Silknow project partners 🎉
Silknow winner of the EuropaNostra Grand Prix Award
Read more here https://silknow.eu/index.php/silknow-winner-of-the-europanostra-grand-prix-award/

📣 Special announcement 📣
We invite you to the Hackathon and Workshop 'IMPROVE YOUR OLFACTORY LANGUAGE', organized by the OdEuropa project partners, in collaboration with the National and University Library of Ljubljana.
📜 THE EUROPEAN PROJECT ODEUROPA addresses the sense of smell and the historical significance of smells with the aim of promoting and connecting European cultural heritage. We develop new scientific approaches and upgrade the existing artificial intelligence methods for the needs of analyzing historical texts and art collections.
📆 DATES: 7-8 November 2022
🎯 LOCATION: Ljubljana, Slovenia
📌 APPLICATION is now open: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewM1s1NGtDfp3NfDDlfJXosmJjhw18xf1xtYFkZ-O6vgjGWw/viewform?usp=sf_link
📍 Participation is FREE! Application is open until 15.10.2022
📃 DETAILS AT: https://ailab.ijs.si/blog/hackathon-and-workshop-improve-your-olfactory-language
📧 CONTACT EMAIL: [email protected]
💻 Bring your computer to play with our prototypes. Guided tour/smell walk "FOLLOW THE SCENT" is on program!

Application form: Hackathon and Workshop "Improve your olfactory language" Event Timing: November 7-8th, 2022 Event Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia In collaboration with The National and University Library of Slovenia! Smell as an important component of human development is still a rather unexplored area. We know that the sense of smell affects our emotions, evokes memories....

🏁 : REGISTRATION IS OPEN ❗️
Click here 👉 https://statistics-awards.eu/
📌 For your entry to be valid, it has to include 6 consecutive nowcasts for at least 5 countries. If you fail to submit nowcasts for a country or official figures are published very late - then that country will not count. 😱
Maximise your chances to go all the way by including more than the minimum 5 countries in your submissions ❗️
Do not miss the 29 September registration deadline ❗️

🏁 : REGISTRATION NOW OPEN ❗️
Do you want to be a part of the challenge organised by Eurostat ❓📊
Check out the rules, terms and conditions for the competition and learn how to compete for the several prizes. 🏆
⏳ Do not miss the 29 September registration deadline!
Click here 👉 https://statistics-awards.eu/accounts/signup

FOR ALL STATISTICS ENTHUSIASTS ❗️ 📊
Eurostat is announcing the launch of a series of competitions addressed to researchers and citizen data scientists.
📌 The first call on nowcasting will be open on 1 September 2022. Stay tuned and find more info here - https://statistics-awards.eu/ or write us [email protected]

European Statistics Awards - Home We are pleased to announce that Eurostat is organising the European Statistics Awards Programme, with competitions in the fields of nowcasting and web intelligence. The main goal of the competition is to discover promising methodologies and data sources that could be used to improve the production o...

🎉 Dunia Mladenic had a keynote at International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications - Inista-2022
📜 Title: Artificial Intelligence Policy Observatory

Dunja Mladenic | INISTA 2022 Dunja Mladenić Professor at Jožef Stefan Institute Prof. Dr. Dunja Mladenić leads Department for Artificial Intelligence at Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia. The Department includes over 50 researchers and graduate students focusing on different research areas including real-time analysis of tex...

🎉 Congratulations to Silknow project researchers 🎉
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EUROPE’S TOP HERITAGE AWARDS HONOUR 30 EXEMPLARY ACHIEVEMENTS FROM 18 COUNTRIES
📜 The European Commission and Europa Nostra have just announced the 2022 winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards, funded by the EU Creative Europe programme.
This Horizon 2020 project produced a comprehensive intelligent computational system that goes beyond current technologies to improve our understanding and knowledge of Europe’s silk heritage.
https://www.europeanheritageawards.eu/winners/silknow/
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SILKNOW - European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards SILKNOW is a Horizon 2020 project that produced an intelligent computational system that goes beyond current technologies to improve our understanding of European silk heritage. The…