Seminars about artificial intelligence
AI Agora is an initiative from the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, and constitutes a lecture and discussion series about artificial intelligence in theory and as applied science. AI Agora presents international guests as well as local speakers.
Upcoming seminars
Martha Larson: AI vs. Our Eye: New Perspectives on Adversarial Images – 10 March 13.15–14.30
Image: Fabrizio Falchi
Passed seminars
What is AI Agora?
In 1956 in Dartmouth, New Hamsphire, a group of scientists met up for discussions on how computers can be made more intelligent, and coined the term artificial intelligence (AI). Since then AI has been considered a part of computer science. It has had its ups and downs, with optimism in the 60-ies and 80-ies and less interest in other decades. Today AI is again a top topic both as a science and in the public.
At the University of Bergen, researchers at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies have worked in the field for several decades. An agora is a Greek term for a meeting place where people discuss public matters (and also a market place). Thus, the AI Agora is an initiative from the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, and constitutes a lecture and discussion series about artificial intelligence in theory and as applied science. AI Agora presents international guests as well as local speakers.
AI Agora convenes on selected weekdays at 14.15 – 15.30 in Media City Bergen.
Speakers
DIETMAR JANNACH
University professor
Seminar: Session-based Recommendation: Challenges and Recent Advances
GIOVAMATTISTA LANNI
Associate professor
RAFFAELLA BERNARDI
Assistant professor
ENRICO MOTTA
Professor
Seminar: Hybrid AI: Integrating large scale data analysis with semantic technologies
MARIJA SLAVKOVIK
Associate professor
Seminar: The Jiminy Advisor: Moral Agreements Among Stakeholders Based on Norms and Argumentation
PEKKA PARVIAINEN
Associate professor
Seminar: Introduction to Bayesian networks – the backbone of probabilistic modelling
TAREK R. BESOLD
Senior Research Scientist
Seminar: Symbols, Networks, Explanations: A Complicated Ménage à Trois
BJØRNAR TESSEM
Professor
Seminar: Artificial Intelligence: more than self-driving cars and face recognition.
PABLO GERVÁS GÓMES-NAVARRO
Associate professor
Seminar: Modelling How People Build Stories from Observed Facts