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.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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CyCAT Webinar: Toward Measuring Viewpoint Diversity in News Consumption

Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency – CyCAT continues its online seminar series, with a presentation by Dr. Nava Tintarev, Assistant Professor at TU Delft. The “Toward Measuring Viewpoint Diversity in News Consumption” will be held on Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 13.30 (GMT) / 15:30 (Cyprus) and is intended to engage researchers, academics, students and developers. The 1-hour presentation will be followed by a 15-minute open discussion. Presentation... Read More

9 June 2019 3:30 pm (GMT+3)

Workshop @ UMAP 2019, 9-12 June, Larnaca, Cyprus

Speakers:

Dr. Nava Tintarev, Assistant Professor at TU Delft.

1 hour

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Artificial Intelligence, the Popular Imaginary, and New Inequalities

Abstract The quest for singularity through Artificial Intelligence is often heralded as the ultimate frontier of technological advancement. However, with the techno-scientific breakthroughs moving at an increasingly fast velocity, the ethical, environmental, and human-oriented impact is often neglected. This talk aims to approach A.I., machine learning, and algorithmic culture from an Arts and Humanities-oriented perspective in order to propose a more interdisciplinary accompaniment to... Read More

26 September 2019 10:00 am (GMT+3)

RISE, PwC Julia House, Nicosia (Ground Floor)

Speakers:

Dr. Marina Hassapopoulou, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University (NYU)

1 hour

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Fighting “Everyday Bias” : Thoughtfulness in information access

The workshop of Fighting "Everyday Bias": Thoughtfulness in information access will take place in the full-day event of Disinformation Battles: The tools to fight it in the Digital Era, organized by LeadCyprus. This workshop is a collaboration of the Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (RISE Ltd) and the Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT). Find out more by following the Disinformation Battles Facebook event. Get your tickets... Read More

18 July 2019 4:15 pm (GMT+3)

Cyprus University of Technology, 30 Archbishop Kyprianou, 3036 Limassol

Speakers:

Kyriakos Kyriakou, Transparency in Algorithms Group at RISE
Dr. Styliani Kleanthous, Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT)
Dr. Jahna Otterbacher, Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT)

2 hours 15 minutes

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What do deep neural networks know?

Abstract In this talk I will discuss my work using computational models to understand human and animal cognition as well as how to understand the inner workings of other computational models. How can computational modelling help us open up black boxes and help us understand classification done by pigeons as well as that done by machines? I will explain what computational modelling is and how we can use deep neural networks to model human and animal categorisation. In addition, I will show... Read More

16 July 2019 10:00 am (GMT+3)

RISE, PwC Julia House, Nicosia (Ground Floor)

Speakers:

Dr. Olivia Guest

1 hour

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Fairness in User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (FairUMAP 2019)

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 ethical, legal, and policy... Read More

9 June 2019 9:00 am (GMT+3)

UMAP 2019, Larnaca, Cyprus

Speakers:

Dr. Peter Brusilovsky (invited speaker)
Dr. Nava Tintarev (invited speaker)

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