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Can A.I. Solve Major Challenges in Museums? --- Museums are turning to A.I. to address critical issues like bias and underrepresented histories. The Transforming Collections project, led by Professor susan pui san lok, Director of the #UALDecolonisingArtsInstitute with UAL Creative Computing Institute, is at the forefront of developing specialised A.I. tools for cultural institutions. --- By combining expertise from curators, data scientists, and art historians, the project shows how machine learning can be tailored to meet museum needs—empowering staff to tackle longstanding challenges like structural biases and data gaps. --- Hear from Prof Mick Grierson on how UAL is shaping the future of A.I. in museums and helping cultural institutions harness technology for meaningful change in this latest article from artnet. --- 🔗 https://bit.ly/4hOuO2G

AI-generated images are becoming increasingly realistic, raising concerns about disinformation and content authenticity. To address this, a team led by University of Maryland researchers Furong Huang and Tom Goldstein organized a global watermark-removal competition with cash prizes. The winning teams—announced at NeurIPS 2024—all showcased creative approaches to overcoming watermark defenses. Congratulations to the winning researchers from MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence), Sony, and Sharif University of Technology. Learn more: http://go.umd.edu/1vc8

The Information Systems Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science of FORTH (ICS-FORTH) participate in the recently launched European project, PULSE-ART. PULSE-ART aims to demonstrate how the use of art in education can become a key driver for cultural development in communities of all of Europe. The project seeks to identify gaps and barriers in educational systems that hinder the integration of art as a tool to promote cultural awareness, to test new methodologies in collaboration with cultural and creative industries, and to create action plans and national action and policy recommendations based on concrete evidence on the impact of art in education. FORTH's role concerns the design and creation of an Observatory of Arts in Education for fostering Cultural Awareness and Expression (CAE), which will aslo include a self-reflection tool. In addition, FORTH is responsible for evaluating the results and the impact of PULSE-ART project. ICS-FORTH also will implement the services for searching and accessing the observatory's data. Scientific Responsible for ICS-FORTH: Prof. Yannis Tzitzikas More information at: : https://lnkd.in/dCFgGZPX

Imagine a future where the boundaries between biology and technology dissolve, and the power of intelligence and computing transcends traditional silicon-based devices. Welcome to the next evolutionary leap – the era of biocomputing. In this brave new world, the Swiss company FinalSpark is blurring the lines between science fiction and reality. FinalSpark

I really enjoyed working on this story, which has a little bit of everything: a talented alum, a thoughtful team of students, and an acronym that's actually fun to say: AI4LAM. Bam! If you're interested in how trusted organizations are thinking about the risks and rewards of using AI in their work, give this a read.

This article gives a good overview of the Sol Foundation Conference in San Fran in November, including my presentation about UAP innovation, investment and building an ecosystem moving beyond deep tech to frontier tech, which requires not just engineering but true technoscientific innovation. The Sol foundation was started by Stanford professor Garry Nolan and Peter Skafish for UAP-related policy, education and advisory work. https://lnkd.in/gsemMEiX

Early Bird Pricing Ends May 10 🎟 Register for this summer's Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Symposium at the lowest price! 📅 July 9 – 11, 2024 📍 University of Notre Dame 🔗 https://bit.ly/4aJzhA9 Building trust with audiences, especially in the age of AI (with all of that computer “written” text and computer “drawn” pictures) has become trickier. Learning how to foster dialogue, improve accessibility, and enhance science literacy is important to shrink the gap between academia and the public. During this symposium, learn better practices behind communicating science. You’ll take away actionable ideas, based on research, to demonstrate the broader impacts of science and to communicate with a variety of audiences. Join us at the University of Notre Dame for the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Midwest Symposium for three days of panel discussions, workshops, poster presentations, and alternative methods of communicating science — even art. The exceptional keynote speakers include Dietram Scheufele, Amy Aines, and Fanuel J. Muindi. View the conference schedule, learn more about South Bend, and register: https://bit.ly/4aJzhA9 #CivicScience #CitizenScience #Scicomm #ScienceCommunication #CommunicatingScience #Communicators #Scientists

The Institute for Machine Learning is organizing a symposium in honor of Joachim Buhmann, which will take place on 12 September 2024. Joachim Buhmann retired this summer from his position as head of the institute, which he has led since its foundation in 2014. The symposium will include several keynote speeches and scientific talks. You can find more information about the event here: https://lnkd.in/dXYTvYMM #computerscience #machinelearning

Lecture: Arts and Natural Sciences: Did you know that since 1979, the Novo Nordisk Foundation has supported research in art, art history and the interdisciplinary crossroads between art and science? We recognise the important role that art plays in society, bringing new perspectives and helping to challenge existing dogmas. This includes the potential to encourage scientific curiosity and stimulating research within the natural and technical sciences. Please join us for an evening of art and science, as we explore some of these perspectives with three exciting researchers representing different ways of working with art and art history on questions of technology and digitalisation. Find new perspectives on the material footprint of our digital society with artist, PhD Honey Biba Beckerlee, who explores the complex correlations between raw materials, humans and technology in sculptures made of silicon waste and woven copper threads. Follow Assistant Professor, Tanya Ravn Ag ,in exploring how the algorithm has been manifested in Danish art since the proliferation of digital technology in the 1990s, as both tool and culture, to understand current and future algorithmically driven dispositions in digital art, from the NFT to XR and AI. And rethink well-known histories and material

How can art and design communicate the abstract concepts of quantum computing to a larger audience? In an international teaching and research project, Köln International School of Design (Cologne, Germany) and the School of Art, Media, & Technology at Parsons School of Design - The New School (NYC,USA) collaborate with the DLR Institut für KI-Sicherheit (Department of Quantum AI and Quantum-classical Hybrid Systems) to develop concepts of interactive installations that help understand the weirdness of the quantum computing world. After a visit to New York in October, both schools visit Amsterdam to work at the Waag Futurelab and for one-day symposium at the Sandberg Institute of Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Hosted by Anja Groten and Márk Redele, the event at Sandberg Institute on the 25th will feature an introduction to the collaboration by Nina Jurič, Michie Pagulayan, Lasse Scherffig, and Sven Travis. This is followed by a keynote lecture by agustina woodgate, who will introduce her art and research projects on quantum communication. From DLR, Andrew Barlow will introduce his research group’s work on quantum computing and quantum AI. In addition, students of the project will present their work-in-progress prototypes and discuss them with faculty and graduate students of Sandberg Institute. After the visit to Amsterdam, the group will continue working at KISD. Here, after working 8 weeks on this project, a final presentation is initiated on November 29, where a jury will select a winning prototype to be developed further. Members of the jury are Sonja Eikenberg, Hans-Martin Rieser and Krzysztof Bieniasz (DLR) as well as Florian Jenett (HS Mainz). If you are interested in joining the final event, please contact us via email. More details about the project, check out: https://lnkd.in/db-ni2SR #KISD #THKOLN #QUANTUMCOMPUTING #PARSONSCHOOLOFDESIGN #DLR #KOLN #NYC #AMSTERDAM