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Rieter and the Johann Jacob Rieter Foundation Sponsor Professorship for Artificial Intelligence at the ZHAW

The Rieter Group is constantly expanding its technology leadership. Together with the Johann Jacob Rieter Foundation, the company is therefore supporting a new Endowed Professorship for Industrial Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the ZHAW School of…

Game Over? Experts panel at CAI discusses whether the current approach to AI is a dead end

Experts discussed whether we are at the verge of achieving artificial general intelligence in the second panel of the series "Pathways beyond present AI". They provided Insights on the differences between natural and machine intelligence, and…

Improving the quality of CT images with AI and Deep Learning

In the recently concluded Innosuisse project DIR3CT, researchers from ZHAW’s Centre for AI (CAI) could improve the quality of CT images with the help of AI and Deep Learning. The results of the project, which was carried out in collaboration with…

New projects aim at enabling the practical adoption of trustworthy AI

Three new projects at the CAI address key challenges for practical adoption of reliable AI, comprising quality control, development, testing, and certification.

CAI appoints four new associated faculty members

Early July, four well-known ZHAW researchers from several departments and with diverse scientific backgrounds related to AI have been appointed as new associated faculty members at the CAI.

Novel methods for Domain Adaptation and Confidence-Rated Predictions enable Digitalization of Real-World Sheet Music

CAI researchers make smart-phone-based digitalization of real-world musical scores possible by equipping the world’s most advanced optical music recognition system with a novel domain adaptation mechanism based on deep neural nets and confidence…

CAI successfully co-organised the SwissText 2022 Conference in Lugano

The 7th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) took place from June 8 to 10. More than one hundred participants from industry and academia exchanged on new and exciting developments in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

CAI launches “Live Impact Series” of events for personal growth of students

With a first afternoon on entrepreneurship, the CAI started a series of events on personal growth for its students and staff. It took off on May 4 at CAI premises with two invited speakers: Maurice Gonzenbach, successful founder of Caplena, and…

Increased Storage for CAI GPU Infrastructure

The CAI is continuously improving its compute infrastructure. After investing in additional computing power in recent years, now the storage system is being renewed. This will allow running machine learning experiments considerably easier and faster.

New Theory Explains Intelligence as Emergent Phenomenon

Does intelligence amount essentially to the learning and imitation of examples, as the current paradigm of machine learning suggests, or is it dominated by structure that is given a priori? In a new manuscript, a team of ZHAW and ETH/UZH presents…