New Director to Lead WASP
An enthusiastic and driven leader acceded to the post of WASP Program Director during summer. A challenge well suited for this expert in scientific visualization - Professor Anders Ynnerman.
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Social AI is Essential and Underexplored
A vital aspect of artificial intelligence is the ability to use social contexts and rules. ”Most of our behaviour is based on social context, so being able to capture that is essential. This is an under-explored area, and WASP offered an opportunity to focus on that”, says Professor Frank Dignum, Wallenberg Chair in AI.
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A Tool to Choose the Right Tool!
A WASP Research Arena for Software sees its dawn. The WARA for Software aims to enable software research in close collaboration between WASP’s academic and industrial partners.
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Torbjörn Lundahl New WARA Director
WASP has a new WARA Director, Torbjörn Lundahl. As having been part of the initial planning of the research arenas within WASP, he is looking forward to develop this strategic instrument even further.
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“Artificial intelligence has to be able to both reason and learn new things”
“Artificial intelligence has to be able to both reason and learn new things. What I particularly like is that Örebro University is strong in both these areas.”, says Luc De Raedt, new Wallenberg Guest Professor in AI at Örebro University.
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The Automation of Science – for the Benefit of Mankind
“People now live better than kings did a couple of hundred years ago – thanks to science. The best way to help the Billions of people still living in poverty and not destroy the planet is to make science more efficient”, says Professor Ross King, one of the new Wallenberg Chairs recruitments to WASP, and the creator of the Robot Scientist.
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WASP Peers Awarded
Tre WASP-forskare har nyligen mottagit utmärkelser för sina arbeten. Särskilt märks Best Student Paper till doktoranden Kathlén Kohn, KTH för sitt framstående arbete inom matematik för AI.
