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  • Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's Machine Auguries, Bildmuseet 2024–2025. © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Ltd. Photo: Malin Grönborg

    Northern dawn chorus in Machine Auguries by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

    Bildmuseet unveils a new site-specific iteration of Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s sound and light installation Machine Auguries, this time set in Umeå in northern Sweden. Premiere on 12 January! Presented alongside the previous iterations from London and Toledo, these three artificial dawn choruses from different parts of the world invite us to reflect on our relationship with nature.

  • Self-driving machines need to be able to adapt to changes in the environment in order not to risk harming the environment or, in the worst case, people. Graphic: Martin Servin

    Computational physics to make AI-controlled heavy machinery safer

    When heavy machinery is to become robots with autonomous capabilities, safety is at highest priority. In a new EU project, researchers and industry collaborate to develop reliable and efficient AI-driven machines that minimize the risk of harming people or the environment.

  • Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Machine Auguries: London. © Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg LCC. Courtesy of Bildmuseet. Photo: Malin Grönborg

    Press invitation: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg / Machine Auguries

    With AI-generated birdsong under an artificial dawn sky, Machine Auguries warns of our infatuation with technology at the expense of nature. In Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s immersive sound and light installation, which opens at Bildmuseet on 18 October, the dawn chorus is slowly taken over by synthetic birdsong.

  • The UN advisory board includes Umeå University researcher and AI expert Virginia Dignum.

    New UN report on AI: "Urgent to collaborate"

    A report by the UN Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence shows that unregulated AI development poses risks at societal and ethical levels, as well as in terms of global governance. Something that requires urgent action. The advisory board includes Umeå University researcher and AI expert Virginia Dignum.

  • Anders Schogster and Jonas Hansson from the Police Education Unit together with Juan Carlos Nieves Sanchez, Associate Professor of Computing Science, are collaborating in a unique project. Photo: Victoria Skeidsvoll

    AI for future policing now being developed in Umeå

    Police officers will be able to use AI and new mixed-reality technology to test and develop ways to improve situational awareness in critical situations such as gang violence and shootings. "Our responsible AI research will be directly useful for police officers in the field," says Juan Carlos Nieves Sanchez, Associate Professor and Research Leader in Computing Science at Umeå University.

  • Stefan Larsson, Lund University, and Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University, are the scientific leaders of this year's WASP-HS conference "AI for Humanity and Society 2023." Photo: Hanna Nordin

    Media Invitation: AI Research Will Be Further Developed at International Conference

    Researchers have made significant progress in understanding how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts our daily lives and the society we live in today, but the assumptions made in research must be regularly questioned. This will be discussed by experts during the international conference "AI for Humanity and Society 2023." The event is open to the public and will take place in Malmö between Novembe

  • Umeå researchers working with Bonnier and Harvard on the future of digital magazines

    Umeå researchers working with Bonnier and Harvard on the future of digital magazines

    Scandinavian media giant Bonnier Corp. was among the first in the world to design a digital magazine specifically for the iPad. Two IT researchers at Umeå University followed the company's research and development division during the creation of the successful publishing platform Mag+. The findings were recently published by the prestigious Harvard Business School.