Google as God – Opportunities and Risks of the Information Age by Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich)
If there were no God – we would have to invent one! Because the development of human civilization requires the spreading of mechanisms promoting cooperation and social order. And one of these mechanisms is based on the idea that everything we do will be seen by God, and that bad deeds will be punished, while Read more...
“Networked Minds” Require A Fundamentally New Kind of Economics
We are republishing this article with the kind permission of the FuturICT (FET Flagship project). The piece was published as a recent scientific breakthrough in Nature Scientific Report. Here we include also some of Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing, Chair of Sociology at ETH Zürich and leader of FuturICT talks from his videography and videos from the Read more...
VideoLectures.Net recieved in Paris the award for “Best of the Best”
The successful VideoLectures.Net ICT developers received their award in a grand gala that highlighted the WSIS events that took place in UNESCO headquarters, Paris. WSA Chairman Peter A. Bruck congratulated the champions and stated that the three-day event had been a unique opportunity to demonstrate the important role of e-Content for a global knowledge society: Read more...
United Nations and UNESCO to award VideoLectures.Net best educational product of the decade
The services of VideoLectures.NET, a global web portal for high-definition academic videos, was recognized by the UN and UNESCO as one of the most outstanding examples of creative and innovative e-Content in the world in the last decade. VideoLectures.NET is a European project run at the “Jožef Stefan” Institute in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and one that Read more...
PASCAL2 challenge @ VideoLectures.Net
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Interactive Annotation of Sequential Data (IASD) PASCAL2 challenge. The aim of the IASD challenge is to explore innovative, cost-effective solutions for generating accurate transcriptions for video lectures from VideoLectures.NET, and, at a more general level, speech-like sequential data. The focus is not on developing advanced speech Read more...
List of all NIPS workshops @ VideoLectures.Net
1. Bayesian nonparametric methods are an expanding part of the machine learning landscape. Proponents of Bayesian nonparametrics claim that these methods enable one to construct models that can scale their complexity with data, while representing uncertainty in both the parameters and … 2. The workshop is motivated by the two following lines of research: 1. Read more...
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