Author Archives: Fredrik Heintz

SAIS Workshop 2020, Online June 16-17

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Fredrik Heintz

The 32nd annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS) will be held as an online conference on June 16 – 17, 2020. The SAIS workshop has since its first edition been a forum for building the Swedish AI research community … Continue reading →

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SAIS Organizes IJCAI-ECAI-18 in Stockholm July 13-19 2018

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Fredrik Heintz

The Swedish AI Society is proud to be the host of the first ever joint IJCAI-ECAI which will be held in Stockholm July 13-19 2018. IJCAI-ECAI-18 is also part of the Federated AI Meeting which includes AAMAS, ICML, ICCBR, IJCAI-ECAI … Continue reading →

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SAIS Workshop May 15-16 Program

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Fredrik Heintz

Monday, May 15 09:00 – 09:30 Coffee and registration 09:30 – 09:50 Welcome and general information 09:50 – 10:50 Invited talk: Tomas Akenine-Möller (Lund University, NVIDIA) 10:50 – 11:10 Fredrik Heintz. AI in Sweden: challenges and opportunities 11:10 – 11:30: … Continue reading →

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SAIS Workshop Karlskrona May 15-16 2017

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Fredrik Heintz

The 30th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS 2017) will take place in Karlskrona, Sweden on May 15-16, 2017. The SAIS workshop provides an ideal forum for contacts among AI researchers and practitioners in Sweden and neighboring countries, … Continue reading →

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SAIS Best AI Master’s Thesis Award 2015

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Fredrik Heintz

The SAIS board is happy to award Mattias Tiger the 2015 SAIS Master Thesis Award for the thesis ”Unsupervised Spatio-Temporal Activity Learning and Recognition in a Stream Processing Framework” with the following motivation: “The award goes to Mattias Tiger for … Continue reading →

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ECAI 2014: The Reunion of AI and Robotics

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Fredrik Heintz

Alessandro Saffiotti from Örebro University, one of Sweden’s three ECCAI Fellows, today gave a keynote at ECAI 2014 in Prague. The title was “The Reunion of AI and Robotics – Opportunities and Challenges”. In the talk Alessandro shared his vision … Continue reading →

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IJCAI/ECAI 2018 in Stockholm

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Fredrik Heintz

It is my great pleasure to announce that IJCAI/ECAI 2018 will be in Stockholm! This will be the first joint IJCAI/ECAI conference. The background is that starting next year IJCAI will be a yearly conference and every forth year there … Continue reading →

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The SAIS AI Master’s Thesis Award 2014 – Call for nominations

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Fredrik Heintz

In order to stimulate work in the area of artificial intelligence at the undergraduate level of education, SAIS has created a special yearly award for the best Master’s thesis (examensarbete) in the area of artificial intelligence. The winner will be … Continue reading →

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Patrick Doherty New President of ECCAI

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Fredrik Heintz

It is my great pleasure to inform you that Patrick Doherty, Linköping University, is the new president of ECCAI, the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. Congratulations Patrick! Fredrik Heintz President of SAIS

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Report from ECCAIs General Assembly August 29, 2012

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Fredrik Heintz

ECCAI, the European Coordination Committee for Artificial Intelligence, held its yearly General Assembly yesterday at ECAI in Montpellier. ECCAI consists of 29 member societies, including SAIS. Two of its most important activities are arranging ECAI and publishing AI Communications. Highlights … Continue reading →

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