2022

A message from the CEO, Klas Pettersen.

In the background, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong’s version of the song Summertime is accompanying this writing. An important part of the human mind is the ability to associate in more or less intelligent ways. For this particular instance of mind, the association swiftly runs like wild horses through the cotton fields, then it is back on track, writing this piece about NORA and AI, but now with summertime in the title.

What a year 2022 has been for NORA and for AI in general! AI research has propelled, and AI products have really reached the consumer market. This past year, I have walked around in a wrestling club in Frederikstad, suddenly overhearing people discussing how they applied AI. I think that this is a sign that AI has really reached the general population. People have become aware that they can actively use AI. They use it for making nice pictures of themselves, which they use as avatars or put on Instagram. Some have also played around with language models like ChatGPT.

It is with great excitement that we welcome Ruter, Posten and the Norsk helsenett (NHN) as strategic partners in the NORA Industry Network! 

We are excited to announce that the NORA Annual Conference 2023 will take place on the 5-6th of June 2023 in Tromsø at the beautiful Scandic Ishavshotel! The conference will coincide with the midnight sun, which is a natural phenomenon whereas the sun doesn't set. The conference dinner will be hosted at Fjellheisen, the perfect location to bear witness to this unique phenomenon.

After days of exciting and informative keynotes, research presentations, poster sessions and discussions, the Nordic AI Meet 2022 (14 – 15 November 2022) was successfully concluded.

Many thanks to all the participants and supporters of the 2nd edition of the Nordic AI Meet!

On the 16th of November, NORA.ai hosted the first NORA Research School Annual Conference, where we gathered over 50 PhD students affiliated with Norwegian universities and members of the NORA Research School. 

Recently, we had the pleasure of hosting the UiB AI Lab at the NORA.ai offices in Oslo. We had great discussions on AI, our activities, and future stronger collaboration.

The winners of the FishAI dataset challenge were announced at the NordicAIMeet on the 14th of November 2022. FishAI was a competition hosted in collaboration with Simula, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Vekstlandet, Agenda Vestlandet, Norwegian Cognitive Center and NORA.ai. The competition invited teams from all over the world to take a deep dive into publicly available data collected from the fishing industry and transform them into a powerful decision-making tool for Captains of the 1100 vessels operating across the Norwegian fishing zone.

Alt ligg til rette for at Bergen skal bli eit kraftsenter innan AI, kunstig intelligens. Forskarar, studentar, næringsliv og offentlig sektor var samla på Universitetet i Bergen for å få utløyst potensialet i Vestlandshovudstaden.

With great excitement, we announce that the Norwegian Computing Center (NR) has joined the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium (NORA.ai)! The partnership will further deepen Norwegian collaboration within the field of AI, Machine Learning, and Robotics. NR joining the consortium will surely create added value and will increase opportunities for new projects and a stronger Norwegian collaborationwithin AI research and innovation.

Last month, the Norwegian Research Council announced the financial support for nine Centers of Excellence (CoE) for the next ten years with a total budget of NOK 1,4 billion. Five centres will be located at UiO, two at UiB, and one each at UiT and NTNU. As stated by NFR, these centres will offer groundbreaking research and solutions to some of the challenges our society is currently facing and the future ones that we yet don't know. Of the nine centres, one is a pure AI centre.

OsloMet-forskere har i tøff konkurranse fått 11,84 millioner til forskning på maskinlæring inspirert av øynenes søk etter visuell informasjon.

Author: Alex Moltzau

Discussions of AI at the Norwegian Festival for Democracy

This is an excellent achievement and a testimony to the credibility that Nordic Machine Intelligence (NMI) has created among AI and ML researchers in a relatively short period of time. This categorization will allow Norwegian education institutions to be rewarded for publications in the journal.

NORA is part of the newly established digital innovation hub, Nemonoor, a seven-year EU project led by Digital Norway (Toppindistrisenteret), with Smart Innovation Norway, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), Norway Health Tech, NTNU, SINTEF, and ÅKP as partners.

The NORA Annual Awards awards are given to recognise exceptional efforts of individuals and actors in the Norwegian AI community throughout the year. We congratulate each winner!

10-14 April 2022 | Stavanger, Norway

If you are looking to attend an event that marks the International Women's Day, please find a list of events below. The list represents events happening at NORA Partner Institutions.

As an early-career researcher in AI, you might be interested in joining a European network for master, Ph.D., and postdoc researchers in AI. Then, CLAIRE Rising Researchers Network (in short R2Network) is the perfect network for you!

The University of Bergen has some of Norway´s strongest research groups in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The field has long traditions at UiB, and now the broad research and educational efforts within AI will be highlighted through the launch of «UiB AI».

Welcome to the First International Symposium on the Tsetlin Machine in Grimstad, Norway, June 20-21 2022. Deadline for Paper Submission is 4th March 2022. 

The Research Council of Norway recently announced that Western Norway Research Institute (Vestlandsforsking) will receive more than NOK 19 million to conduct research into artificial intelligence, big data, and social media

Once you know how it works for one disease, immuneML can make diagnostic tools for other types of diseases as well.