AI for Social Good: A technological nudge for development
By Dr. Ingmar Weber, Research Director, Social Computing, Qatar Computing Research Institute, and Jennifer Colville, Innovation Team Lead, Arab States, United Nations Development Programme Are you an optimist or a pessimist when it comes to Artificial Intelligence? Do you think AI will bring apocalyptic scenarios where the disruptive forces of technology take over the […]
Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium – MLDAS 2019
Date: 1-2 April, 2019 Location: HBKU Research Complex, Multipurpose Room Introduction The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers, practitioners, students, and industry experts in the fields of machine learning, data mining, and related areas to present recent advances, to discuss open research questions, and to bridge the gap between data analytics research and industry […]
QCAI releases National AI Strategy for Qatar
By Lokendra Chauhan| Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence (QCAI) has drafted and released the “National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Qatar”. The objective of this document is to inform and advise Qatar’s leadership on AI’s potential and a path ahead for Qatar. Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a phenomenon is getting much […]
DeepCrystal: A Deep Learning Framework for Sequence-based Protein Crystallization Prediction
Abdurrahman Elbasir, Balasubramanian Moovarkumudalvan, Khalid Kunji, Prasanna R. Kolatkar, Halima Bensmail, Raghvendra Mall
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (2018)
“Fake News” at QCRI: Follow the Source
By Dr. Preslav Nakov, Senior Scientist, Arabic Language Technologies, QCRI The “Fake News” Phenomenon Recent years have seen the rise of social media, which have enabled people to share information with a large number of online users, without quality control. On the bright side, this has given the opportunity for everybody to be a content creator and […]
AI in Transportation
Date: November 22, 2018 Location: Auditorium, Minaretein Building, HBKU College of Islamic Studies, Education City Objective: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Transportation Introduction: The TASMU-QCAI Artificial Intelligence in Transportation workshop is being hosted by the Ministry of Transport and Communication’s Smart Qatar TASMU program and Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence (QCAI) of Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) – a research institute […]
Impetus for QCAI
By Dr. Ahmed Elmagarmid, Executive Director, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) “I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’ ” and thus begins Alan Turing’s seminal 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” The phrase “Artificial Intelligence” was coined six years later by John McCarthy, then a young assistant professor in mathematics at Dartmouth College. It would be […]
QCRI’s Visitors Program
The aim of QCRI’s Visitors Program is to foster research collaboration between QCRI staff and academic scholars and industry specialists from around the world. Visitors are expected to spend a week or two weeks at QCRI premises and interact with scientists, engineers, postdocs and research associates and give at least one seminar during their visit. […]
Artificial Intelligence and Food Security
Date: Oct 4th, 2018 Location: HBKU Research Complex Multipurpose Room Objective: How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) help Qatar attain food security Introduction: The United Nations defines the four pillars of food security as availability, access, utilization and stability. In the context of Qatar, it is availability and stability that are of particular concern. It is […]
Assessing the Accuracy of Four Popular Face Recognition Tools for Inferring Gender, Age, and Race
Soon-gyo Jung , Jisun An , Haewoon Kwak , Joni Salminen , Bernard Jansen
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2018)