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For the second year in a row, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is Europe’s top-ranked university in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the prestigious international CSRankings. The repeat win further establishes the Technion’s position as a leading institution in the field and creates a new community to empower students and researchers and promote collaborations with industry and academia.
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Following collaborations with MIT, Stanford, and other leading universities around the globe, IBM Research to invest millions in research at these two leading Israeli universities

(Haifa, September 8, 2022)—The Technion and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have signed a partnership agreement with IBM Research to advance artificial intelligence capabilities and applications in Israel. The collaboration was announced this week at a conference held by IBM in Tel Aviv to mark 50 years since the establishment of the IBM Research Lab in Israel. Read More
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“This collaboration, fueled by philanthropy, brings together two world-class institutions, Technion and Cincinnati Children’s, and two leading laboratories, each with complementary skills and assets, to improve pediatric medicine on a global scale.”
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On February 24^th, AI researchers and enthusiasts from Academia and Industry and Government gathered together for the first AI physical gathering for 2022. Titled AI: From Hype to Productivity, the conference emphasized the disparity between AI perceptions in the lay public and as sometimes advertised by commercial entities and actual AI capabilities to date. By doing so, we effectively sketched an AI roadmap which highlights the challenges the AI field faces in coming years. The presentations are of the given lecture are available here: Prof. Assaf Schuster: Complex Patterns in Massive Data Streams Asst. Prof. Nir Rosenfeld: Machine Learning and Human Behavior Assoc. Prof. Daniel Soudry: Resource Efficiency and Algorithmic Bias Control in Deep Learning Prof. Michael Elad: Image Denoising - Not What You Think! Asst. Prof. Aviv Tamar: Generalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning Asst. Prof. Ofra Amir: Explainable Reinforcement Learning: Describing Agent Behavior to People Assoc. Prof. Tamir Hazan: Multimodal Attention Networks Prof. Shie Mannor: Reinforcement Learning: Is the Future Here?

ISF launched (June 8th) its Japan-Israel joint call-for-proposals. The call is focused on social sciences. MLIS researchers dealing with interfaces between AI and social sciences which seek a Japanese partner for collaboration  - we aggregated the most prolific Japanese AI researchers according to AI sub-fields (CSRanking data).

Registration deadline is 5.8.21

Submission deadline is 12.8.21

The list is accessible here: Japanese Researchers_AI