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- | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2020-01-29</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Digital Science</i> at <a href="https://www.graduateacademy.uni-heidelberg.de/karriere/veranstaltungsreihen.html">Vortragsreihe | + | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-25</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited talk <i>AI-powered tools for real-time transcription and translation in action: A self-hosted open-source framework for digital spaces.</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/medien/veranstaltungen/tagungen/medien-wissen-bildung-2025/">Medien - Wissen - Bildung 2025: Streifzüge an den Nahtstellen von Medien, Bildung und Philosophie</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited keynote <i>Hands-on Approaches to Software, Robotics, and AI: Exploring Experiments and Science in Action</i> at <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/simon/ECER-2025/">European Conference on Educational Robotics (ECER 2025)</a>, HTL Anichstrasse.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter teach a tutorial <i>Was sind Roboter, was macht eine KI? Entwickle deine eigene KI und programmiere unsere Minibots</i> at Campustag BG/BRG Sillgasse, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-03</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>What is AI really?</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/events/2025/04/03/ai-in-law-and-practice-regional-perspectives-on-european-rules">Cross-Border |
- | „Primers for Predocs – Strategien für eine erfolgreiche | + | Seminar: AI in Law and Practice: Regional Perspectives on European |
- | Promotion“</a>, Universität Heidelberg. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">Massive availability of data and computing power are | + | Rules</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-03-06</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Funktionsweise, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von KI</i> at Lieber gleich berechtigt als später: Hallo KI, hilfst du |
- | promoting data-driven methods in all areas of science and | + | uns bei der Gleichstellung?!, Tiroler Bildungsinstitut Grillhof Vill. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem4', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem4Abstract" style="display:none">Künstliche Intelligenz" bezeichnet derzeit Systeme, die |
- | technology. I will describe how the University of Innsbruck | + | auf maschinellem Lernen (ML) basieren. Dieser Workshop führt in |
- | supports this via its new Digital Science Center, and will give a | + | die Grundlagen des ML ein, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf neuronale |
- | flavor of machine learning for data analysis.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-01-20</td><td>Joanna Chimiak-Opoka, Carina König, and Justus Piater appear in the media: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/ergaenzung-digital-science-erfolgreich-gestartet.html.de">Ergänzung Digital Science erfolgreich gestartet – UIBK Newsroom</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-01-03</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz: Grundlagen, Erfolge, | + | Netze, der derzeit populärsten ML-Technologie. Darauf aufbauend |
- | Herausforderungen</i> at 47. Tagung des Innsbrucker Kreises von MoraltheologInnen | + | vermittelt er ein Grundverständnis für prinzipielle Möglichkeiten |
- | und SozialethikerInnen, Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-12-19</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://tvthek.orf.at/profile/Tirol-heute/70023/Tirol-heute/14035670/Alexa-Siri-Co-Spione-im-eigenen-Haus/14610743">TV interview by ORF 2 Tirol Heute RedHaus (in German)</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-12-12</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Too Smart to Be Trusted – Do I Even Want to | + | und Grenzen von ML und warum es mit derzeitigen Mitteln extrem |
- | Understand My Robot?</i> at <a href="http://www.trustrobots.eu/">TrustRobots Lecture series | + | schwierig ist, Diskriminierung in KI-Systemen zu |
- | Trust in Robots</a>, TU Vienna.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-12-05</td><td>IIS guest <span style="font-weight:bold">Heiko Neumann</span>, University of Ulm, gives an invited colloquium <i>Biologically inspired visual-auditory processing – from | + | verhindern.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-02-26</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter teach a tutorial <i>Programmieren eines autonomen Roboters anhand einer selbstentwickelten KI</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-02-26</td><td>Marko Zarić teaches a tutorial <i>Einführung in das Programmieren mit Microcontrollern</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-01-31</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>High-Level AI For Autonomous Robots</i> at <a href="https://elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-vismac/">ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC |
- | brain-like computation to neuromorphic algorithms</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/forschung/lunchtime-seminar/index.html.en">IFI Lunchtime Seminar</a>. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem5', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem5Abstract" style="display:none">A fundamental task of sensory processing is to detect | + | Winter School 2025</a>, Brunico, Italy. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem7', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" style="display:none">What barriers will have to be overcome to raise the |
- | and integrate feature items to group them into perceptual units | + | flexibility and robustness of autonomous robots to the next level? |
- | segregating them from other objects and the background. A | + | I argue that current AI methods are unlikely to get there, no |
- | framework is discussed which explains how perceptual grouping at | + | matter how far we scale them up. Robots need to be able to |
- | early as well as higher-level cognitive stages may be implemented | + | "understand" their environment in ways that reach beyond |
- | in cortex. Different grouping mechanisms are implemented which are | + | prediction and control. I will discuss examples of work (ours and |
- | attuned to basic features and feature combinations and mainly | + | others') on learning visual relational concepts, extrapolation of |
- | evaluated along the forward sweep of stimulus processing. However, | + | learned movements beyond the training distribution, learning of |
- | due to limitations of local feature detection mechanisms and | + | symbolic concepts and rules, and structure-driven skill learning |
- | inherent ambiguities, top-down feedback is required to deliver | + | from sensorimotor experience.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-01-23</td><td>Marko Zarić teaches a tutorial <i>Einführung in das Programmieren mit Microcontrollern</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-01-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Generative Künstliche Intelligenz: Funktion, Fähigkeiten |
- | contextual information helping to disambiguate initial | + | und Fallen</i> at <a href="https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/lfuonline_lv.details?sem_id_in=24W&lvnr_id_in=720453">VO |
- | measurements. Feedback of contextual information is demonstrated | + | 720453 Spezielle Themen der Persönlichkeits- und Differentiellen |
- | to improve object recognition performance, stabilize learning of | + | Psychologie</a>, Universität Innsbruck. (Gastvorlesung)</td></tr></table></HTML> |
- | object categories, and integrate multi-sensory representations. | + | |
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- | The canonical principles of neural computation define a set of | + | |
- | core operations to implement above-mentioned mechanisms of | + | |
- | perceptual and cognitive inference. These operations can be | + | |
- | mapped, in a simplified form, onto neuromorphic platforms to | + | |
- | emulate brain-like computation. It is demonstrated that an | + | |
- | architecture composed of canonical circuit mechanisms can be | + | |
- | mapped onto neuromorphic chip technology facilitating low-energy | + | |
- | non-von Neumann computation.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-26</td><td>IIS guest <span style="font-weight:bold">Tamim Asfour</span>, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, gives an invited keynote <i>Engineering Humanoids with Motion Intelligence</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/studium/inday-students/index.html.en">inday students</a>. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem6', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem6Abstract" style="display:none">Humanoid robotics plays a central role in robotics | + | |
- | research as well as in understanding intelligence. Engineering | + | |
- | humanoid robots that are able to learn from humans and | + | |
- | sensorimotor experience, to predict the consequences of actions | + | |
- | and exploit the interaction with the world to extend their | + | |
- | cognitive horizon remains a research grand challenge. Currently, | + | |
- | we are experiencing AI systems with superhuman performance in | + | |
- | games, image and speech processing. However, the generation of | + | |
- | robot behaviors with human-like motion intelligence and | + | |
- | performance has yet to be achieved. In this talk, I will present | + | |
- | recent progress towards engineering 24/7 humanoid robots that link | + | |
- | perception and action to generate intelligent behavior. I will | + | |
- | show the ARMAR humanoid robots performing complex grasping and | + | |
- | manipulation tasks in kitchen and industrial environments, | + | |
- | learning actions from human observation and experience as well as | + | |
- | reasoning about object-action relations.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-25</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Enabling Robots to Learn Abstract Concepts</i> at <a href="https://tricolore.inf.unibz.it/tricolore2019/program/">TriCoLore | + | |
- | – Creativity | Cognition | Computation</a>, Bolzano, Italy.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-18</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz in einer menschlichen | + | |
- | Gesellschaft</i> at Robotik in Medizin und Pflege – Jubiläumssymposium | + | |
- | des Klinischen Ethikkommittees, A.ö. Landeskrankenhaus – Universitätskliniken | + | |
- | Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-08</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>AI Transparency in Autonomous Vehicles</i> at <a href="https://cogvehicles2019.github.io/">Towards Cognitive | + | |
- | Vehicles: perception, learning and decision making under | + | |
- | real-world constraints. Is bio-inspiration helpful?</a>, Macau.</td></tr></table></HTML> | + | |
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