About IIIM
The Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines (IIIM) is a non-profit institute structured specifically to accelerate the rate of innovation by bridging between academic research and industrial engineering needs, through exchange of ideas, people, projects, and intellectual property.
Focusing on the areas of artificial intelligence, robotics and simulation techniques we develop novel software tools, methods and systems exhibiting new levels of capability in areas such as machine learning, sensing and mobility that can be applied in a wide range of applications including manufacturing, virtual worlds, games, bioinformatics, energy and climate research.
Opening Doors to New Opportunities
IIIM management and licensing schemes introduce a solid framework for:
- Collaboration between parties from different industries
- Generating successful spinoff companies
- Providing Iceland with an exciting institute of innovation and education in these technologies
Bridging Academia and Industry
IIIM’s three to nine- year development horizon connects industry’s typical two-year product horizon and the decade-or-more research horizon in academia. Using these machine predictions of the future, industrial sponsors can more effectively plan their product development trajectories. Even more can be gained. The complexities of wider contexts inspire and reveal new concepts, ideas and unexpected applied research problems waiting to be explored.
A 60/40 ratio between externally and internally motivated research not only stimulates progress in sponsors’ interest areas but also advances intelligent machines and simulation.
| IIIM helps subscribing companies expand their horizon and produce advanced technologies sooner. Bridging between academia and industry, IIIM increases flow of ideas, people and projects between participants, speeding up their progress and improving the quality of their work. |
Selected Press Coverage
- “The Future of AI”
(or link) – interview with Kristinn R. Thórisson on the talkshow Robots. Robotspodcast.com. March 12, 2010 - “Gervigreind og hermun í Vitvélastofnun Íslands”
(or link) – interview with Kristinn R. Thórisson regarding IIIM. Midjan.is, Iceland. February 24, 2010 - “Að stofna rannsóknarsetur” – interview with K. R. Thórisson by Ásrún Matthíasdóttir about founding research institutes. Tölvumál – tímarit Skýrslutæknifélags Íslands. 1. tbl., 34. árgangur. November 2009
- “Trӓnar på låtsas för att bli bӓttre i verkligheten” – interview with IIIM Associate Director Stacy Marsella regarding an invited talk in Sweden. Boras Tidning, Sweden. November 27, 2009
Funding Members
The institute is funded through sponsorship from industrial and academic institutions, competitive research funds and technology licensing. Industrial members provide challenging practical questions, while universities provide doctoral students, postdoctoral associates, and research faculty. These include Rannis, Reykjavik University School of Computer Science and CCP Games.
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