It is a great pleasure to invite you to a presentation by Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates with the title “Responsible AI” (for the abstract, please see below). The presentation will take place on Friday, April26, 3pm (s.t.!) in the large lecture hall (Hörsaal) in the Mathematikon. Prof. Baeza-Yates is a renowned expert in Information Retrieval, Web search and mining, and responsible AI.
Michael Gertz
Speaker: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University
Titel: Responsible AI
Abstract: In the first part, to set the stage, we cover irresponsible AI: (1) discrimination (e.g., facial recognition, justice); (2) pseudoscience (e.g., biometric based predictions); (3) limitations (e.g., human incompetence, minimal adversarial AI), (4) indiscriminate use of computing resources (e.g., large language models) and (5) the impact of generative AI (disinformation, mental health and copyright issues). These examples do have a personal bias but set the context for the second part where we address three challenges: (1) principles & governance, (2) regulation and (3) our cognitive biases. We finish discussing our responsible AI initiatives and the near future.
Bio: Ricardo Baeza-Yates is Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University, as well as part-time professor at the Dept. of Computer Science of University of Chile. Before, he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs, based in Barcelona, Spain, and later in Sunnyvale, California, from 2006 to 2016. He is co-author of the best-seller Modern Information Retrieval textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 1999 and 2011 (2nd ed), that won the ASIST 2012 Book of the Year award. From 2002 to 2004 he was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society and between 2012 and 2016 was elected for the ACM Council. In 2009 he was named ACM Fellow and in 2011 IEEE Fellow, among other awards and distinctions. He obtained a Ph.D. in CS from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and his areas of expertise are responsible AI, web search and data mining plus data science and algorithms in general.
A team of students from Heidelberg University, aka HeiTwin (Dennis Jakob, Nikita-Nick Funk, Thomas Möller, Ernestine Großmann), has achieved remarkable success in the PACE Challenge! They secured the 5th place in the heuristic track (overall ranking) and an impressive 2nd place in the student ranking of the exact track of the challenge. The PACE Challenge is an international programming contest that focuses on solving graph-related problems using innovative algorithmic techniques, most often using data reduction techniques. This year, the challenge revolved around "twin width" a concept in graph theory that measures how well a graph can be partitioned into pairs of vertices with identical adjacent neighborhoods.
Team Heidelberg's unwavering dedication propelled them to excel in both tracks of the competition. Their outstanding performance demonstrates their deep understanding of graph theory and their algorithmic skills. Let's congratulate Team Heidelberg (HeiTwin) for their outstanding achievements in the PACE Challenge. We believe their success showcases their skills and the level of innovation within our faculty.
Am Donnerstag, den 13. Juli 2023, findet die diesjährige IT Jobmesse im Hörsaalzentrum der Chemie (INF 252) statt. Dies ist eine großartige Gelegenheit für Studierende, verschiedenste Unternehmen der Region kennenzulernen und Karrieremöglichkeiten auszuloten. Weitere details dazu sind hier zu finden.
Satya Almasian, Milena Bruseva und Marina Walther überzeugten beim HerHackathon 2022 mit ihrem Beitrag „ShoppingBud“ und belegte den ersten Platz in der Challenge-übergreifenden Finalrunde.
Vom 23.6.2022 bis zum 26.6.2022 fand der diesjährige HerHackathon als Online-Wettbewerb statt. Das Event hat mehr als 350 ausgewählten internationalen Teilnehmerinnen die Chance geboten, eine der sieben Challenges gestellt von sieben führenden Unternehmen in Deutschland zu lösen. Hierbei sollten die Teams innerhalb von 72 Stunden eine kreative und innovative IT-Lösung zur jeweiligen Challenge erstellen. Das Heidelberger Team bestehend aus Satya Almasian, Milena Bruseva und Marina Walther überzeugte mit ihrem Beitrag „ShoppingBud“ zur Challenge von Schwarz IT und belegte den ersten Platz in der Challenge-übergreifenden Finalrunde. Herzlichen Glückwunsch an das Heidelberg Team!
Links: HerHackathon, Posting auf LinkedIn
Am 2. Mai fand die Endrunde des 17. Studierendenwettbewerbs Informatik der Gesellschaft für Informatik in Hamburg statt. Drei Teams hatten sich aus 30 Einreichungen für das Finale qualifiziert. Als Gewinner der auf Youtube live gestreamten Veranstaltung präsentierte sich das Team HeiSpeed der Universität Heidelberg mit den Studierenden Julian Freyberg, Jonas Wildberger, Marina Walther und Holger Wünsche mit der besten Lösung.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Weitere Informationen zu dem Event und auch dem Video der Veranstaltung finden Sie hier auf den Webseiten der GI.
