Do you want to meet the people behind the presentations and papers? Then join the IIIM at the annual Visindavaka Festival (Researchers’ Night) on Friday, September 28th. Come and visit us in Háskólabíó to learn more about our work and projects, or ask questions about the field and its opportunities. Besides IIIM, several other leading [...]
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First impressions are important and decided quickly. In just a dozen seconds of interaction, people can decide several things about the person who they are interacting with. PhD student Angelo Cafaro decided to apply this idea to an experiment involving Human–Agents encounters. Borrowing from the field of social psychology, Mr. Cafaro investigated the importance of [...]
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Have you ever wondered what would happen if your shadow had a life of its own? Reykjavik University Aperio students Gunnar Steinn Valgardsson and Hrafn Thorri Thórisson introduced the LivingShadows project to discover just that. The LivingShadows program scans a person’s outline and transforms it into an interactive figure. Rather than being a mere projection, it [...]
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Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines took part in Career Days (Framadagar in Icelandic) for the first time this year. This annual event is organized by the largest international student organization AIESEC and was held at Reykjavik University on February 1st. It was a great chance for students to meet our researchers and talk about their work at IIIM.
The Workshop is focused on the impending paradigm shift from constructionist to constructivist methodologies for building artificial intelligence. Constructionist refers to traditional top-down software design, which places limitations on scaling, while Constructivist refers to self-organizing systems that manage own growth.
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