The Swiss AI Lab IDSIA (Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale) is a non-profit oriented research institute for artificial intelligence, affiliated with both the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera Italiana and the Department of Innovative Technologies of SUPSI, the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland. We focus on machine learning (artificial neural networks, reinforcement learning), optimal universal artificial intelligence and optimal rational agents, operations research, complexity theory, and robotics. IDSIA is situated near Lugano, a lakeside city in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, a region of Switzerland well known for its warm climate and outstanding scenery.

• Are you here because of the recent NY Times article on deep learning? Then read this interview on KurzweilAI for more information on the 8 international competitions won by our deep learning methods since 2009.
• in Business Week's "X-Lab Survey" IDSIA was ranked in fourth place in the category "Computer Science - Biologically Inspired", after much larger institutions. IDSIA was also ranked in the world's top 10 of the broader category "Artificial Intelligence."
• The Economist reported on IDSIA's research on Swarm Intellligence.
• Some recent news:
  • October 2012: we released "Towards Intelligent Humanoids", a video about our ongoing efforts to apply AI algorithms to create autonomous, adaptive, intelligent behaviors on a humanoid robot.
  • October 2012: IDSIA's Juergen Schmidhuber is recipient of the 2013 Helmholtz Award from the International Neural Network Society. The award ceremony is scheduled for August 2013 in Dallas.
  • July 2012: IDSIA's Andrea Rizzoli has been elected to the presidency of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society for the biennium 2012-2014.
  • 13 June 2012: Teaser Video: J. Schmidhuber in TV Premiere of Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman on the Science Channel.
  • 5 March 2012: Our neural computer vision team won the ISBI 2012 Image Segmentation Challenge by a large margin, with superhuman pixel error rate. (Ranks 2-6 for researchers at ETHZ, MIT, CMU, Harvard.)
  • 20 January 2012: Talk at TEDx Lausanne on creative machines. Transcript.
  • January 2012: Begin of ERC Starting Grant for F. Grandoni.
  • San Francisco: AAAI 2011 best video award for Swarmanoid, the movie, with contributions from IDSIA, IRIDIA, EPFL, ISTC.
  • Google Headquarters, CA: Kurzweil Prize for Best Paper of AGI 2011 (L. Gisslen, M. Luciw, V. Graziano, J. Schmidhuber)
  • 2011 Solomonoff AGI Theory Prize shared by M. Ring, IDSIA
  • Our team won the IJCNN 2011 on-site Traffic Sign Recognition Competition (the only method outperforming humans). More
  • Singapore, MobiCONA 2011: Best research paper award (E. N. Toklu and R. Montemanni)
  • Our team won the ICDAR 2011 Chinese handwriting recognition competition