When ChatGPT suffered an unexpected global outage in mid-2025, it was widely covered by news media outlets and social media erupted seemingly with panic. Memes showcasing the impact of the outage quickly filled social media channels. People from all walks of life, students, startup founders, marketing teams, media outlets, and…
A 15 hour crash course on deep learning for NLP with practical exercises in Keras. The lecture series is conducted at the department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Here is the course material including slides, python notebooks, etc.
By Lokendra Chauhan| Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence Introduction Expert consensus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is that it is a transformational technology and will alter the very nature of jobs as we know. While the world has been moving towards digitization and an increase in AI-adoption, the COVID-19 pandemic and the…
By Global Judicial Integrity Network, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime The role of Artificial Intelligence technology in contemporary jurisprudence is attracting worldwide attention. The Global Judicial Integrity Network at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has begun researching this issue and will discuss it at its…
By Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory @NYU (GovLab). The “AI for Social Good” conference that recently took place at the Qatar Computing Research Institute examined the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for good. It was widely agreed that the potential is real,…
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…
We are pleased to announce the publication of Deep learning, transformers, and graph neural networks: a linear algebra perspective in Numerical Algorithms. Authors: Abdelkader Baggag and Yousef Saad (SIAM von Neumann Award winner). Abstract (brief): As AI permeates nearly every field of science and engineering, this article invites the numerical linear algebra (NLA) community to engage directly with…
A research paper, originating from doctoral work at CSE and an ongoing project at QCRI, developed through collaboration between the two institutions, has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025 in Nashville, USA. Authored by Eng. Sara A. Al-Emadi, PhD candidate,…
QCAI is delighted to announce that our project “aiMCard: Transformative Healthcare AI Multi-Modal Tool for Integrated Cardiometabolic Risk Prediction in Qatar” has been awarded funding under the 8th cycle of the Path Towards Precision Medicine (PPM), supported by the Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation (QRDI) Council and the Qatar Precision Health Institute to Dr. Halima Bensmail. This project is Co-led…