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  • MediaFutures Seminar: Automated Fact-checking: the scope of the problem in the state-of-the-art. Postdoc Fellow Ghazaal Sheikhi.

    Ghazaal Sheikhi, Postdoc Fellow from MediaFutures, University of Bergen, Norway will give a seminar on 14 January, at 11:00. TITLE: Automated Fact-checking: the scope of the problem in the state-of-the-artWHEN: Friday 14 January, 11:00-12:00WHERE: Zoom https://uib.zoom.us/j/68310482035?pwd=NHR2NXhuU1lZSjFHdEZCekNxaC9yZz09Meeting ID: 683 1048 2035Password: krFzY285 ABSTRACT: Fact-checking in technical terms is the process of analyzing textual content for claim […]

  • MediaFutures Seminar: Visual Content Verification in the News Domain. PhD Candidate Sohail Ahmed Khan

    Sohail Ahmed Khan, PhD Candidate from MediaFutures, University of Bergen, Norway will give a seminar on 25 February, at 11:00. TITLE: Visual Content Verification in the News DomainWHEN: Friday 25 February, 11:00-12:00WHERE: Zoom - https://uib.zoom.us/j/66009400805?pwd=MWpHZjdpK29TZTlSTVpZTXhDdkhSZz09 Meeting ID: 660 0940 0805 Password: qHdQfj1S ABSTRACT: The purpose of the talk is to get valuable comments and suggestions […]

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    MediaFutures Seminar: Building Knowledge Graphs with Media Content and Application for Tackling Misinformation with Raphael Troncy, Associate Professor at EURECOM

    MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floor

    Raphael Troncy, Associate Professor at EURECOM, will give a seminar on 20 September, at 10:00. TITLE: Building Knowledge Graphs with Media Content and Application for Tackling Misinformation WHEN: Tuesday 20 September, 10:00-11:00WHERE: MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floor.    / ZOOM: https://uib.zoom.us/j/67861782423?pwd=YzhRVWkrOVp5Q1gwTmhZU3c2djBlZz09 Meeting ID: 678 6178 2423 Password: 10ZkuVs4 ABSTRACT: The sheer volume of multimedia content created […]

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    MediaFutures and AI Agora Joint Seminar: Understanding Trust and Conversational Agent with Jonas Ivarsson, Professor at the University of Gothenburg

    Jonas Ivarsson, Professor at the University of Gothenburg, will give a seminar on 1 November, at 13:15. TITLE: Understanding Trust and Conversational Agent  WHEN: Tuesday 1 November, 13:15-14:00. WHERE: Store læringsrom, læringslab 3. etasje, Media City Bergen ABSTRACT: In recent years, the field of natural language processing has seen substantial developments resulting in robust voice-based interactive […]

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    MediaFutures and AI Agora Joint Seminar: The Scientific and Computational Study of Creativity with Geraint A. Wiggins, Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

    Geraint A. Wiggins, Professor of Computational Creativity in the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will give a seminar on 1 November, at 14:15. TITLE: The Scientific and Computational Study of Creativity  WHEN: Tuesday 1 November, 14:15-16:00.  WHERE: Store læringsrom, læringslab 3. etasje, Media City Bergen ABSTRACT: Creativity remains one of the most valued […]

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    MediaFutures Seminar: Maleficent Neural Networks with Michael Riegler, Chief Research Scientist at SimulaMet

    Michael Riegler, a Chief Research Scientist at SimulaMet and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, will give a seminar on 12 December. TITLE: Maleficent Neural Networks WHEN: 12 December, 13:15-14:15 WHERE: MediaFutures and Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/69019718716?pwd=TFd0WlFWZWZYekdrZEdQZ0ZQa2VjQT09 Meeting ID: 690 1971 8716 Password: SpRcB0CD ABSTRACT: Neural networks nowadays are used almost […]

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    MediaFutures Seminar: Information Seeking Is Much More Than Searching with Alan Smeaton, Professor of Computing at the Dublin City University

    Alan Smeaton, a Professor of Computing at the Dublin City University, will give a seminar on January 10th.  TITLE: Information seeking is much more than searching WHEN: 10 Januar, 15:15-16:15 WHERE: MediaFutures & Zoom: Link:  https://uib.zoom.us/j/69616776839?pwd=QWlRSWk1M2RQb0JYUkk1YzkzYmxFQT09 Meeting ID: 696 1677 6839 Password: Dqf1HzTr ABSTRACT: Information seeking is an essential, daily activity that billions of us pursue as part […]

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    The Nordic Seminar on eXplainable AI (XAI)

    The Nordic Seminar on eXplainable AI (XAI) aims to update each other on ongoing XAI research in Norway and create and build a community for XAI in Norway. The seminar is organised over two days (March 29 - March 30) as a joint effort between the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, UiB and Department […]

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    Mid-term evaluation of PhD candidate Sohail Ahmed Khan

    We are delighted to invite you to the public part of the mid-term evaluation of Sohail Ahmed Khan on April 25th at 14:30. The event will take place at MediaFutures Meeting Room (MCB, 3rd floor).During the presentation, Sohail will discuss his work on "Computational Visual Content Verification," which is part of MediaFutures' WorkPackage-3. He will […]

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    MediaFutures Seminar: Reaching New Audiences with Generative AI with Lydia Chilton, an Assistant Professor from Columbia University

    Lydia Chilton from Columbia University will give a seminar on June 29th   TITLE: Reaching New Audiences with Generative AI WHEN: 29 June, 15:00 - 16:00  Presentation: https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Chilton_ReachingNewAudiences_June2023.pdf ABSTRACT:  Writing a news article is a significant investment of time, energy, and intellect. For an article to have the impact it deserves, it needs to reach the […]

  • AI Solutions for Local Journalism Challenges: A Design Thinking Approach and Beyond

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    WP3 invites to a digital seminar on AI for local journalism. Speaker is the Postdoctoral Researcher Dr Reshmi G. Pillai from Vrije University Amsterdam. Journalism has been transformed by technological advancements over the last two decades, causing significant economic disruption among other challenges. The emergence of Artificial Intelligence has accelerated this paradigm shift, presenting tremendous […]

  • Phd Defense of Sohail Ahmed Khan

    Ulrike Pihls Hus, Ulrikes aula Professor Keysers gate 1, Bergen, Norway

    On Tuesday, June 3rd, PhD candidate Sohail Ahmed Khan will defend his PhD thesis "Computational Visual Content Verification". The trial lecture starts at 09.15, and the defense starts at 10.30. In his dissertation, Sohail Khan explores how newsrooms verify visual user-generated content (UGC) and examines growing challenges related to manipulated media content such as deepfakes […]