SUPSI - Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence

29 December 2021

The Metaverse: between old challenges and new ethical dilemmas

Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence USI-SUPSI, and Alessandro Facchini, Senior lecturer and researcher, were interviewed by Corriere del Ticino on the Metaverse and its related ethical challenges.

20 December 2021

The use of AI to detect misinformation in the Metaverse

Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence USI-SUPSI, was recently interviewed by Bloomberg to discuss the limits of the Metaverse and the use of AI to detect offensive and misleading content.

13 December 2021

IDSIA joins SPEARHEAD, an Innosuisse project to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (USI-SUPSI) joined the Swiss Pandemic & AMR – Health Econonomy Awareness Detect (SPEARHEAD) partnerhip, an Innosuisse-funded consortium of 12 Swiss institutions aimed at addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

25 November 2021

A glance at IDSIA: applied research, multidisciplinarity and future orientation

Andrea Emilio Rizzoli and Marco Zaffalon, Director and Scientific Director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence USI-SUPSI, presented the institute and its activities in a recent article published by Ticino Scienza.

8 November 2021

Cesare Alippi nominated ELLIS Fellow

Prof. Cesare Alippi of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI) has been appointed Fellow of the Geometric Deep Learning programme at the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). This is the third time that a USI researcher has been awarded this status by the prestigious organisation that promotes excellence in basic research and collaboration with industry in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Promotion to fellow status rewards the scientific excellence of the researcher.

28 September 2021

Scientific Integrity, the 2021 Turing Lecture, and the 2018 Turing Award for Deep Learning

A new IDSIA technical report has been issued by Jürgen Schmidhuber. Following the great success of massive open online peer review (MOOR) for his 2015 survey of deep learning (now the most cited article ever published in the journal Neural Networks), this extended version of a June 2020 article is currently undergoing MOOR as well.

27 September 2021

E-Waste, the 'smart' clinical waste management system

Alberto Ferrante, lecturer and researcher at IDSIA, led and developed the E-Waste Innosuisse project together with and Marco D'Ambros, of the Software Institute at the USI Faculty of Informatics and in cooperation with Valbenne SA.

12 August 2021

The Bachelor in Data Science grows further

Francesco Flammini, Head of the Bachelor in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, outlined the progress of the degree course one year after its launch and illustrated its future directions in an interview with Ticinoscienza.ch.

28 July 2021

Drones: a present and future challenge

Prof. Alessandro Giusti of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI) was interviewed by Falò, a RSI LA 1 programme, as part of a report on drones and their increasingly important role in various sectors of our society.

9 July 2021

IDSIA as a driver for Artificial Intelligence in Ticino and Switzerland

Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber, Scientific Director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI), was recently interviewed by SRF, the Swiss German-language radio and television, on the role of Ticino as a key hub for the development of Artificial Intelligence in Switzerland.

2 July 2021

A short radio interview with Jürgen Schmidhuber.

The German speaking Swiss Radio has made a short interview with Jürgen Schmidhuber, one of our Scientific Directors.

30 June 2021

Spotting the Japanese beetle with just a few clicks

It is a major threat to hundreds of plant species. Present in Europe since 2014, the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) was first spotted at the southern Swiss border in 2017. To prevent it from spreading further in our country and in Europe, Agroscope, the Swiss competence centre for agronomic research, has just launched an innovative interactive online map, developed with the contribution of the a team lead by Professor Cesare Alippi of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI) to record and report the presence of the insect in Ticino.

10 June 2021

Alessandro Antonucci receives the 2nd prize at the Credit Suisse award for best teaching

We are happy to announce that our researcher Alessandro Antonucci received the Credit Suisse award for best teaching thanks to his innovative project aimed at improving the evaluation of students' work in distance learning activities. Alessandro will be presented the award during the "Giornata della formazione SUPSI" on the 14th of September 2021.

8 June 2021

Michael Bronstein - Keynote at ICLR 2021

Professor Michael Bronstein (Imperial College/IDSIA/Twitter) has been invited to give a plenary talk at ICLR 2021 on Geometric Deep Learning: The Erlangen Programme of ML. Here you can find the full recording of his talk.

4 June 2021

Artificial Intelligence to fight COVID

Dario Piga, Senior Researcher at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI), and his research group contributed to the publication of a study in the prestigious Journal of Medical Internet Research.

28 May 2021

An interview with Fabrizio Grandoni

"The best algorithm is not always the one who makes less mistakes". Fabrizio Grandoni explains in this interview to Ticinoscienza (in Italian) how this contradictory statement is at the basis of a fascinating branch of computer science: approximate algorithms.

19 May 2021

Human and machine: an open challenge

Cooperazione interviewed Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI).

17 May 2021

Jürgen Schmidhuber on G.W. Leibniz, the first computer scientist

In occasion of the 375th birthday of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung interviewed Professor Schmidhuber on artificial intelligence and the role of Leibniz in the development of computer science.

28 April 2021

Alessandro Giusti nominated SUPSI Professor

IDSIA gets a new professor in artificial intelligence for autonomous robotics

25 April 2021

Jürgen Schmidhuber interviewed by El Pais

IDSIA's Jürgen Schmidhuber has been interviewed by the most most widely read Spanish-language digital newspaper in the world. In this interview Jürgen also talks about creativity and sets a few things straight when it comes to scientific attribution.

20 April 2021

IDSIA Scientific director Jürgen Schmidhuber interviewed by Forbes

Jürgen Schmidhuber, Scientific director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI), was interviewed by Forbes in a report focused on Artificial Intelligence and its current applications.

13 April 2021

IDSIA joins VIRTUOUS project to create an artificial tongue

Dario Piga, Senior Researcher at IDSIA USI-SUPSI, was interviewed by the magazine Oggi Scienza on Marie Curie VIRTUOUS, a project to create an artificial tongue to predict the organoleptic properties of foods by analysing their molecular composition.

1 April 2021

Stanford University includes three IDSIA Professors among the world’s top scientists

Luca Maria Gambardella, Jürgen Schmidhuber and Marco Zaffalon, Professors at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI) were recently listed in the Standford University ranking of the world’s top scientists.

25 March 2021

Artificial intelligence in Switzerland: Marco Zaffalon interviewed by Deloitte Switzerland and SGE

Marco Zaffalon, Scientific Director of IDSIA USI-SUPSI, was interviewed by Deloitte and Switzerland Global Enterprise in a report focused on the developments of Artificial Intelligence and on Switzerland's position as an international research and development hub.

23 March 2021

The quest of IDSIA USI-SUPSI for more "human" AI

As of December 2020, the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), a joint USI-SUPSI institute, has a new director, Andrea Rizzoli, who succeeds to Luca Maria Gambardella, who led the institute for 25 years. Rizzoli, a Swiss-Italian citizen, with degree from the Milan Polytechnic and further studies in Australia, has been working at IDSIA for a long time. He is now faced with the great challenge of artificial intelligence (AI), as he recounts to science journalist Agnese Codignola in an interview with Ticino Scienza.

8 March 2021

DTI News - Artificial Intelligence: current possibilities and future opportunities

Alessandro Giusti, senior researcher at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI) was interviewed by Corriere del Ticino.

12 February 2021

AI in Switzerland: IDSIA at the Swiss Business Hub Italy event

On Wednesday 17 February, the Swiss Business Hub Italy will host a webinar focused on the high potential of artificial intelligence and its applications in the Swiss industrial ecosystem.

27 January 2021

Prof. Fabrizio Grandoni gets appointed to the Research Council of SNF

The Swiss National Research Foundation has appointed Fabrizio Grandoni, Professor at IDSIA, as a member of its Research Council in the Mathematics, Natural and Environmental Sciences Division. He will be in charge of theoretical computer science aspects, replacing Arjel Lenstra. Fabrizio will start his appointment as of the 1st of April 2021. The whole IDSIA team congratulates Fabrizio on this important achievement.

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