AI Regulation and Governance: A Cross-Jurisdictional Approach

Domus Bibliotheca, Karl Johans gate 47, 0162, Oslo

MediaFutures associate professor Samie Touileb is giving a keynote speech on AI technology at this conference. With the EU’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act being adopted and various major jurisdictions deliberating AI policy at both national and international levels, this conference provides a timely platform to navigate the myriad legal and policy issues AI presents, from […]

Transparency, Privacy, and Fairness in Recommender Systems

MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floor

MediaFutures has invited Dipl.Ing. Dr.techn. Dominik Kowald from Graz, Austria to talk about transparency, privacy and fairness in recommender systems. He is research area manager in Fair AI at the Know-Center and senior researcher and lecturer – ISDS (TU Graz). Recommender systems have become a pervasive part of our daily online experience by analyzing past usage […]

Making sense of news audiences and their experiences: Practices and responses to news in the age of datafication

Room 514, Fosswinckels gate 6

Welcome to the Final Seminar of our Ph.D Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus. Commentator: Assistant Professor Joëlle Swart (University of Groningen). On June 18th, the Department of Information Science and Media Studies organizes a PhD Final Seminar for candidate Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus. The Final Seminar takes place toward the end of the PhD period, when the candidate is a few […]

Addressing the Next-Poster Problem: A Hybrid Recommender System for Streaming Platforms

Møterom 1 MCB

09:30 Pre-discussion (attendants: Mehdi Elahi, Benjamin Kille)  10:00 start explanation followed by thesis presentation (attendants: all)  Around 10:40 Interrogation (attendants: Alvsvåg, Mehdi Elahi, Benjamin Kille) Around 11:15 Consultation between censors (attendants: Mehdi Elahi, Benjamin Kille) Around 11:35: Results (attendants: all) Title: Addressing the Next-Poster Problem: A Hybrid Recommender System for Streaming Platforms Abstract: Recommendation strategies in the Movie […]

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

Online

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 […]

Advancing Image and Video Understanding Beyond Traditional Paradigms: Vocabulary-Free Classification and Zero-Shot Temporal Localization

Ulrike Pihls hus, Seminarrom 2B

The Department of Information Science and Media Studies and the I2S research group welcomes you to this seminar with Paolo Rota of University of Trento. The rapid evolution of vision-language models is transforming the landscape of image and video understanding, going beyond traditional classification and localization paradigms. We will explore two recent methodologies that challenge […]

Europe’s Digital Agenda: Is the AI Act the Final Act? In Search of Common Principles

Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31, 5006 Bergen AND Zoom

Over the past five years the European Union legislature has passed a flurry of ambitious directives and regulations dealing with various aspects of Europe’s digital economy: the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive (2019), the Open Data Directive (2019), the Data Governance Act (2022), the Digital Services Act (2022), the Digital Market Act (2022), the Data […]

Personalisation Day

Wallenberg Conference Center, Gothenburg, Sweden

We invite all researchers and practitioners in the Nordics to the second Nordic Personalisation day in Wallenberg Conference Center, Gothenburg. We aim on two days full of talks and discussions on ethics, responsibility in personalisation and recommender systems. There will also be plenty of time to meet peers both from industry and research and exchange ideas […]

Training workshop in Oslo: Accessibility in Digital Learning Resources

oslo

Join our 2-Day training workshop on Accessibility in Digital Learning Resources! Are you passionate about making digital learning more interactive and accessible? Our upcoming workshop in Oslo, Norway, on Monday, September 16th, and Tuesday, September 17th, is the perfect opportunity for you! Focus Areas:- Tools for enhancing interactivity and accessibility in linear media experiences.- Balancing […]

UiB Innovation Festival: From research to change

Nygårdsgaten 5, Nordre Allmenning 3 at Læringsarenaen

You are invited to the UiB Innovation Festival that will take place on September 20th from 9 to 14:30 at Nygårdsgaten 5. The festival is your opportunity to engage with the broad spectrum of innovation emerging from our university, discuss how to balance the open science with protecting intellectual property, and reflect on how UiB can […]

MediaFutures seminar

Online

Title: Facing disinformation in social media with focus on its social impact The integration of social media into our daily lives has been both transformative and essential, offering numerous advantages in how we communicate, share information, and engage with the world. However, alongside these benefits comes a growing concern: the widespread dissemination of misinformation. This […]

Future Week 2024

Media City Bergen, Atrium

Future Week is an annual conference on media technology and editorial innovation. The conference focuses on the intersection of new technology and journalism. With around 300 participants, Future Week is an informal, boutique conference where editorial teams meet product developers and media technologists. We feature engaging speakers from newsrooms and media technology companies, both from […]