Seminars about artificial intelligence

(We do not have any plans to make online seminars. We will return once we can organize seminars in person again)

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

No upcoming seminars

Passed seminars

Martha Larson: AI vs. Our Eye: New Perspectives on Adversarial Images – 10 March 13.15–14.30

Image: Fabrizio Falchi

Ambra Demontis: Adversarial Machine Learning @ 18 Nov 14:15-15:45

Tarek R. Besold: Symbols, Networks, Explanations: A Complicated Ménage à Trois

Sonja Smets: Computing Social Behavior @ 27 Aug 15:00-16:00

Marija Slavkovik: The Jiminy Advisor: Moral Agreements Among Stakeholders Based on Norms and Argumentation

Ana Ozaki: Knowledge Graphs: Facts and Figures

Pablo Gervás Gómes-Navarro: Modelling How People Build Stories from Observed Facts

Dietmar Jannach: Session-based Recommendation: Challenges and Recent Advances

Pekka Parviainen: Introduction to Bayesian networks – the backbone of probabilistic modelling

Enrico Motta: Hybrid AI: Integrating large scale data analysis with semantic technologies

Bjørnar Tessem: Artificial Intelligence: more than self-driving cars and face recognition

Gunnar Tufte: Maverick Machines: from Self-organising Matter to Thinking machines

Raffaella Bernardi: An old Artificial Intelligence dream that comes true: Merging language and vision modalities

Giovambattista Ianni: Intelligence in Video Games – From Pacman to the Angry Birds AI Competition Experience

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.