Events – CyCAT

Events

CyCAT holds monthly seminars in this topic and that one. Our seminars are held online where viewers can ask questions. Most of our past seminars can be watched here.

CyCAT WinterSchool

The Winter School: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics (FATE) in AI aims to cover topics related to AI systems and promote the multidisciplinarity of FATE, with an emphasis on human-centered AI. Participants will benefit from understanding the diverse perspectives of others involved in the above topics. The FATE in AI Winter School is targeting Postgraduate students at Masters and PhD levels, and early career postdoctoral researchers. The disciplines of the students and... Read More

11 January 2021 1:00 pm (GMT)

Online

Speakers:

Prof. Joanna Bryson, Hertie School of Governance
Prof. Michael Rovatsos, University of Edinburgh
Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento
Prof. Tsvika Kuflik, University of Haifa
Dr. Jahna Otterbacher, Open University of Cyprus
Casey Dugan, IBM
Dr. Frank Hopfgartner, University of Sheffield
Dr. Jo Bates, University of Sheffield
Dr. Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus

5Days

CyCAT Inaugural Event

Inaugural Event to Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency's Seminar Series on Algorithmic Fairness, Accountability and Transparency. About this Event The Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT) is hosting an inaugural seminar to its seminar series, which includes a number of talks by CyCAT's coordinator and partners. All times are EEST 16.00 Welcome: Key challenges in the CyCAT project by Jahna Otterbacher , Open University of Cyprus (CyCAT's Coordinator) 16.10 Educating... Read More

15 October 2020 4:00 pm (EEST)

Online

Speakers:

Jahna Otterbacher
Maria Kasinidou
Styliani Kleanthous
Michalinos Zembylas
Kalia Orphanou
Avital Shulner Tal
Tsvika Kuflik
Frank Hopfgartner
Michael Rovatsos
Lena Podoletz

2 hours and 15 minutes

14th National Session of EYP Cyprus

Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency coordinator, Dr. Jahna Otterbacher, is serving as a Committee Expert at the 14th National Session of the European Youth Parliament CY. Dr. Jahna will make a presentation on “Regulating AI in the EU: Step 1 - Understanding Machine Behavior,” to the Committee on Legal Affairs.

28 August 2020 7:00 pm (GMT)

Onlne

CyCAT is organizing the 2nd symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (BHCC2020) taking place between 10-11 of November 2020. For more information and abstract submission please click Learn More.

10 November 2020 12:00 am (GMT)

Online

CyCAT Webinar: Digital Language Divide

Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency – CyCAT announces its new seminar on: "Digital Language Divide" with Dr. Fausto Giunchiglia, Professor in Information Engineering and Computer Science department at University of Trento, Italy. Presentation Abstract: This seminar focuses on the so-called “Digital Language Divide” namely the fact that only a very small minority of the 8,000 natural languages spoken worldwide (not considering dialects) have a sizable online presence. The... Read More

13 April 2020 7:00 pm (GMT)

YouTube

Speakers:

Dr. Fausto Giunchiglia

1 hour

Fairness in User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (FairUMAP 2020)

Workshop Description Personalization has become a ubiquitous and essential part of systems that help users find relevant information in today’s highly complex information-rich online environments. Machine learning, recommender systems, and user modeling are key enabling technologies that allow intelligent systems to learn from users and adapt their output to users’ needs and preferences. However, there has been a growing recognition that these underlying technologies raise novel... Read More

17 July 2020 12:00 am (GMT)

Genoa, Italy

OPEN CALL FOR CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP GENERATION A=ALGORITHM

Are you familiar with the implications of AI for our future? Do you want to learn more about AI? Do you want to change your world/the world through AI? Do you feel that search engines do not understand you correctly? Do you see yourself differently from the way your search engine sees you? Do the discriminating factors of artificial intelligence bother you? Join us and help us to shape the discourse on algorithms! We – the Goethe-Institut Cyprus in cooperation with Cyprus Center... Read More

28 February 2020 2:00 pm (EET)

Goethe-Institut Zypern, 21 Markou Drakou, 1102 Nicosia

Explainable Smart Systems for Algorithmic Transparency in Emerging Technologies

We are pleased to announce the merging of two workshops into a joined workshop: Explainable Smart Systems for Algorithmic Transparency in Emerging Technologies (ExSS-ATEC). Following their successful predecessors: the 3rd Workshop on Explainable Smart Systems (ExSS) and the 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces for Algorithmic Transparency in Emerging Technologies (IUI-ATEC), the new ExSS-ATEC will be held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on... Read More

17 March 2020 9:00 am (GMT)

Cagliari, Italy

Speakers:

Carrie J. Cai, Senior research scientist at Google Brain and PAIR

8 hours

Fake news detection with content and social information

The spread of fake news is considered one of the most critical threats of our society in recent years. Despite all the attempts, the automatic detection of fake news still remains an open problem. Although fake news exists for a long period of time, the ubiquitousness of social media has facilitated their propagation with severe consequences for society. For example, the “Pizzagate” shooting incident was a result of fake news that went viral claiming the involvement of a restaurant in human... Read More

15 November 2019 12:00 pm (GMT)

1st floor Conference Room, 33 Giannou Kranidioti Ave. (Latsia Business Center), 2220 Latsia

Speakers:

Dr. Anastasia Giachanou, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

1 hour

Profiling humans, profiling bots, profiling you.

Author profiling studies how language is shared by people. This helps in identifying aspects such as gender, age, native language, or even personality. Author profiling is a problem of growing importance in forensics, security, and marketing. E.g., from a forensic linguistics perspective one would like being able to know the profile of the author of a harassing text message; from a marketing viewpoint, companies may be interested in knowing, on the basis of the analysis of blogs and... Read More

14 November 2019 10:00 am (GMT)

Julia House, 21612, CY1591, Themistokli Dervi 3, Nicosia 1066

Speakers:

Paolo Rosso, Professor, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain and member of the PRHLT research center

1 hour