14.07.22

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.

11.07.22

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.

24.06.22

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…

22.06.22

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).

03.06.22

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…

31.05.22

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.

25.05.22

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…

24.05.22

Interdisciplinary panel discussion at the CAI: What is intelligence and how to advance present AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made impressive progress in recent years. Yet, its ability to learn from few examples and generalise pales compared to human intelligence. An interdisciplinary expert panel at CAI discussed what is intelligence and…

10.05.22

Frank-Peter Schilling appointed Senior Lecturer for Computer Vision and MLOps @ CAI

Dr. Frank-Peter Schilling has been appointed as lecturer at the CAI with research focus on computer vision and MLOps, effective June 1, 2022.

06.05.22

Stanford’s Bill Newsome at the CAI

As part of the Templeton Lecture Series, Stanford’s Prof. Bill Newsome gave a remarkable talk on how free our decisions are and what factors influence our decision making