22.06.22

CAI successfully co-organised the SwissText 2022 Conference in Lugano

The 7th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) took place from June 8 to 10. More than one hundred participants from industry and academia exchanged on new and exciting developments in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

03.06.22

CAI launches “Live Impact Series” of events for personal growth of students

With a first afternoon on entrepreneurship, the CAI started a series of events on personal growth for its students and staff. It took off on May 4 at CAI premises with two invited speakers: Maurice Gonzenbach, successful founder of Caplena, and…

31.05.22

Increased Storage for CAI GPU Infrastructure

The CAI is continuously improving its compute infrastructure. After investing in additional computing power in recent years, now the storage system is being renewed. This will allow running machine learning experiments considerably easier and faster.

25.05.22

New Theory Explains Intelligence as Emergent Phenomenon

Does intelligence amount essentially to the learning and imitation of examples, as the current paradigm of machine learning suggests, or is it dominated by structure that is given a priori? In a new manuscript, a team of ZHAW and ETH/UZH presents…

24.05.22

Interdisciplinary panel discussion at the CAI: What is intelligence and how to advance present AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made impressive progress in recent years. Yet, its ability to learn from few examples and generalise pales compared to human intelligence. An interdisciplinary expert panel at CAI discussed what is intelligence and…

10.05.22

Frank-Peter Schilling appointed Senior Lecturer for Computer Vision and MLOps @ CAI

Dr. Frank-Peter Schilling has been appointed as lecturer at the CAI with research focus on computer vision and MLOps, effective June 1, 2022.

06.05.22

Stanford’s Bill Newsome at the CAI

As part of the Templeton Lecture Series, Stanford’s Prof. Bill Newsome gave a remarkable talk on how free our decisions are and what factors influence our decision making

22.04.22

Google Researcher presents Computer Vision Highlights at CAI Colloquium

On March 30, 2022, we welcomed a special guest at our CAI colloquium. Dr. Lucas Beyer, senior research engineer at Google Brain, presented the most recent breakthroughs in applying transformer architectures to computer vision.

14.02.22

Initiative for Large-Scale Development & Testing of Autonomous Systems launched in the Canton of Zurich

ZHAW, UZH and ZHdK developed a concept for the safe development and testing of drones and robots together with renowned partners.

14.02.22

CAI focuses on autonomous systems as demonstrators for AI in teaching

A current bachelor thesis transfers our AI research to four-legged walking robots. These will serve as demonstrators and training objects for teaching.