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Kurzweil Award Goes to IIIM Director and Colleagues for Second Consecutive Year

IIIM Managing Director Kristinn R. Thorisson and his collaborators Bas R. Steunebrink, Jan Koutník, Eric Nivel, and Jurgen Schmidhuber received the prestigious 2013 Kurzweil Award for the second year in a row. Their research in the field of artificial general intelligence was part of a three-year research project called HUMANOBS which was completed in June 2012 and sponsored by Reykjavik University and the 7th European Community Framework Programme.

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“Thinking” Machines: Managing Director of IIIM Discusses Evolving Machine Intelligence in Spinks’ Article “Minds of Their Own”

Pioneering British scientist Alan Turing’s 100th birthday is celebrated this year, prompting Peter Spinks to question if machines could soon pass the Turing test. If passed, this test represents the ultimate achievement in computer science: a computer which thinks like a human. IIIM’s Managing Director Dr. Kristinn R. Thorisson is positive that faster, more powerful computers will lead to computers that “think”. To read more click on theage.com.au.

IIIM Supports Hackathon 2012 at Reykjavik University

Banner for the Hackathon Event In Hackathon 2012 – Iceland, guests from different local startups will introduce short programming challenges and describe various experiences encountered in their area of business. Participants of the event will then be set to solving these challenges during the hacking session. This event is open to students (signup required, see below), hobbyists, professionals, anybody who likes to hack on cool code.

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