SUPSI - Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence

29 July 2022

AI: How or Why

Many people wonder what is actually going on with artificial intelligence (AI). There is a huge hype about it; this notwithstanding, entrepreneurs may feel that the “AI revolution” has not impacted their business yet. Marco Zaffalon, scientific director at IDSIA, in the article appeared on the online magazine "Datatechvibe" gives some insights on how AI can impact daily business and which promises can be actually kept.

25 July 2022

Intelligent machines or elaborated parrots?

Alessandro Facchini, senior lecturer-researcher at IDSIA, has written the following op-ed for the local "La Regione Ticino" newspaper. In this short piece Dr Facchini reasons about the recent developments in NLP and the ethical and social implications.

1 July 2022

To trust or not to trust: When should AI be allowed to make decisions?

With the goal of enhancing their scientific collaborations on the ethics of AI systems, the College of Humanities at EPFL, the Digital Society Initiative at the University of Zurich, and the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA USI-SUPSI are organising in Lausanne on September 7-9 2022 an international meeting aimed at bringing together philosophers, computer scientists, engineers and medical professionals to discuss and outline possible answers to the aforementioned crucial questions.

15 June 2022

Data science and artificial intelligence in clinical research

IDSIA participates in the Swiss Clinical Trial Organization (SCTO) symposium on “Data science and artificial intelligence in clinical research” (Lugano, 15 June 2022) with two contributions

15 June 2022

The 7th Swiss Text Analytics Conference at the East Campus

Between June 8 and 10, SUPSI’s Department of Innovative Technologies (DTI) of SUPSI hosted the 7th SwissText Analytics Conference, an event that brings together academics and practitioners active in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP).

13 June 2022

Leopoldo Cerè awarded the Best Master's Thesis Prize by SVOR/ASRO

On Friday 3 June, Leopoldo Cerè, a graduate of the Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) programme, received the prize for the best Master's thesis from the Swiss Society for Operations Research (SVOR/ASRO) for his thesis work "Elastic Optimal Network Design with Machine Learning and Combinatorial Optimisation".

18 May 2022

IDSIA awarded at the Wiki-Science Competition

A reportage of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence USI-SUPSI realised by photographer Marian Duven and published by the Ticino Scienza portal (IBSA Foundation for Scientific Research) has won the "Image sets" section of the Swiss edition of the Wiki Science Competition 2021.

16 May 2022

Antonio Paolillo contributes to a Science Robotics article

Antonio Paolillo, a researcher at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence USI-SUPSI, has contributed to a publication by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in the prestigious journal Science Robotics to investigate the impacts of robotics and artificial intelligence on the job market.

9 May 2022

IDSIA hosts the Innogly Annual Meeting 2022 on glycan studies

From May 4 to 6, 2022, the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence USI-SUPSI hosted the annual meeting of the European research action INNOGLY COST, a project aimed at creating networks among researchers for the development of knowledge on glycans in different biological contexts. Prof. Andrea Danani, Head of the Computational Biophysics Lab of IDSIA, was interviewed by the magazine Ticino Scienza.

5 April 2022

From Ukraine to Ticino: how an IDSIA PhD student is helping war refugees

Umberto Junior Mele is doing a PhD at IDSIA, co-supervised by Prof Gambardella (USI) and Prof Montemanni (UniMore, IT). Last weekend Umberto went on a trip, but it was a trip of a special kind.

31 March 2022

Artificial intelligence to predict the taste of food

The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence USI-SUPSI is an academic partner of VIRTUOUS (Virtual tongue to predict the organoleptic profile of Mediterranean ingredients), a project launched in 2019 under the European Marie Curie program, for the prediction of the organoleptic properties of Mediterranean ingredients from their molecular composition.

18 March 2022

Eppendorf invests in IOR/IDSIA spin-off BigOmics Analytics

BigOmics Analytics, a spin-off of the Institute of Oncology Research and Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, announces raising additional funding from Eppendorf, a leading life science company that develops and sells instruments, consumables and services for liquid, sample and cell handling in laboratories worldwide. The additional funding brings the total amount raised so far to CHF 2.7M. It will be used to further develop BigOmics’ platforms, to expand its team and to grow its presence in the market.

28 February 2022

Piotr Didyk appointed associate professor at USI

We are happy to announce that Professor Piotr Didyk has been promoted to the role of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics at USI

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