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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.

THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA – ICWSM 2023

Associate Professor Jahna Otterbacher, Coordinator of the CyCAT | Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT) at the Open University of Cyprus, is serving as General Chair of the 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media - ICWSM-2023. The conference will be held from June 5th – 8th at the St. Raphael Resort and Marina in Limassol, Cyprus. The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) is a forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to... Read More

5 June 2023 9:00 am (EEST)

Limassol, Cyprus

4 Days

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A conversation with Prof. Nello Cristianini

The Shortcut - how machines became intelligent without thinking in a human way A conversation with Prof. Nello Cristianini By reading the media, it might seem as if Artificial Intelligence was born in November 2022, with ChatGPT. Instead, the current form of this technology is the result of decisions that we have made many years ago, and understanding those can help us make sense of it, and of what we should expect from it. To what extent can we say that AI understands the... Read More

9 June 2023 5:00 am (EEST)

Online

Speakers:

Prof. Nello Cristianini

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DataScientia workshop meeting

Styliani Kleanthous (CYENS-fAIre), Jahna Otterbacher (OUC & CYENS-fAIre) and Maria Kasinidou (PhD student, OUC) attended the DataScientia workshop meeting hosted by Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia at the University of Trento, Italy (17/04-19/04/2023). The meeting aimed to present the Mission of DataScientia as well to explore opportunities for collaboration among the participants. Prof Otterbacher and Dr Kleanthous presented the course "AI in Everyday Life" which is a joint effort between... Read More

17 April 2023 12:00 am (GMT)

University of Trento

“Promoting AI literacy for the public” – Student Competition at SIGCSE TS 2023

Ms Maria Kasinidou, PhD candidate at the Open University of Cyprus and researcher at the Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency, participated in the Student Competition of the 54th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education is organized by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). SIGCSE TS 2023 was held from March 15 - 18, 2023, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ms Kasinidou presented her work entitled “Promoting AI Literacy for the Public”... Read More

16 March 2023 12:00 am (GMT)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Meeting at the University of Trento

Stella Kleanthous (CYENS-fAIre), Jahna Otterbacher (CyCAT & CYENS-fAIre), Maria Kasinidou (OUC PhD Candidate & CyCAT) and Kyriakos Kyriakou (OUC PhD Candidate & CYENS-fAIre) from Open University of Cyprus and CYENS, and Mayukh Bagchi, (UniTn PhD candidate), Xiaolei Diao (UniTn PhD candidate), Hadi M Y Khalilia (UniTn PhD candidate), Ali Hamza (UniTn MSc student & UniTn research assistant), Simone Bocca (UniTn PhD candidate), Matteo Busso (UniTn PhD candidate) and Pavel... Read More

28 November 2022 12:00 am (GMT)

University of Trento

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Keynote talk by Associate Professor Jahna Otterbacher at the International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT 2022)

Dr Jahna Otterbacher, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences of the Open University of Cyprus, is a keynote speaker at the International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT 2022) held in Nicosia/Cyprus on November 17-19, 2022. The title of her talk is: “You can’t find it if you can’t “see” it: Reflections on algorithmic mediation in the distribution and reception of photographic images”. Computer Vision tools, such as those that recognize... Read More

17 November 2022 12:00 am (GMT)

Nicosia

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CIKM Demo – RECANT

“Sister” research teams Fairness and Ethics in AI-Human Interaction (CYENS CoE) and CyCAT (OUC) will be presenting an interactive demo at the 31st Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2022), held in Atlanta, Georgia USA. The RECANT Demo was developed in the context of the project DESCANT (funded by the Cyprus Research & Innovation Foundation - EXCELLENCE/0918/0086). It is an interactive tool that allows users to... Read More

17 October 2022 12:00 am (GMT)

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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European Researchers’ Night

“Sister” research teams Fairness and Ethics in AI-Human Interaction (CYENS CoE) and CyCAT will participate in the 16th European Researchers’ Night. The European Researchers' Night will take place on Friday, September 30, from 09:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the evening at Eleftheria Squares, and is organized by the Research and Innovation Foundation in collaboration with the main bodies from the field of research, innovation and business in Cyprus. The European Researchers'... Read More

30 September 2022 9:00 am (GMT)

Eleftheria Square

13 Hours

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Keynote talk by Associate Professor Jahna Otterbacher at the 14th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence

Associate Professor Jahna Otterbacher, Head of the Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT) and co-leader of the research group “fAIre - Fairness and Ethics in AI- Human Interaction” at the CYENS Centre of Excellence, has been invited to deliver a keynote talk entitled "Bias in Data and Algorithms: Problems, Solutions and Stakeholders" at the 14th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2022). The Conference will be held on... Read More

28 September 2022 10:00 am (GMT)

Tunisia

Speakers:

Dr Jahna Otterbacher

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Algorithmic Watchdog

We are pleased to invite you to our third workshop which will explore how Algorithm Watchdogs could contribute towards the objectives of the emerging EU regulatory framework on AI. This is the third workshop in a series where we designed a methodology for an algorithm watchdog in collaboration with experts from academia and industry based on discussions on real-world issues around algorithmic fairness, transparency, and accountability in domains such as employment and online information... Read More

22 September 2021 6:00 pm (EEST)

Online

2 Hours

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