My “AI for good and evil” lecture gathered 450 people!

On the 3rd of March, I had the privilege to hold a 2nd lecture in Senioruniversitet i jönköping’s lecture series. This time, the lecture “AI på gott och ont” (AI: for good and evil) gathered some 450 people who curiously wanted to learn more about AI and its use in today’s society.

As the trust in science is decreasing in society, I am truly very grateful to have been offered this third mission platform as a chance to educate and inspire the public about the ongoing developments in AI. There is nothing more powerful than knowledge: let’s spread it!

Thank you, Örjan Nilsson and the board of Senioruniversitetet, for inviting me a second time!


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Appointed Scientific Leader for the AoS: HCIAI

I am happy to announce that earlier this year, JTH’s Associate Dean of Research appointed me as the area of strength (AoS): Human-Centred Industrial AI (HCIAI)’s scientific leader.

Together with co-leader Tuwe Löfström and the two other AoS’s respective leaders, I have the privilege to assist in directing and guiding in the development of scientific policies at the School of Engineering, Jönköping University.

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Featuring in the “Professors Beyond Academia”

A couple of weeks ago, I had the amazing honour of being contacted by Ajay Sivakumaran Kumar, one of the student writers for Jönköping University’s student magazine EDIT. He asked me if I would be willing to participate in an interview in which the students of the university could get to know the professors a bit better.

The result of the interview was published today in an article series called “Professors Beyond Academia”. I am truly very proud to have been asked and to have the opportunity to showcase to the students that we “professors are people as well”. 🙂

You can read the article here:
Professors Beyond Academia | EDIT

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A science-dense November!

This November I am honoured to participate in two fantastic scientific conferences.

First, I participated at the 7th Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT) in Madrid (ES) where my student presented our paper: Aguirregomezcorta Aina & Hedblom (2024) “Twist and Snap: A Neuro-symbolic System for Affordance Learning of Opening Jars and Bottles”.

This week, I am participating in the 23rd edition of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence’s annual conference AI*IA, in Bozen-Bolzano (IT). The conference hosts over 20 workshops – one of which is the 8th edition of the Image Schema Day (ISD8) which we organise on Wednesday-Thursday.

In addition to 12 paper presentations, ISD8 has two keynote speakers – Prof. John Bateman, University of Bremen (DE) and Prof. Zoe Falomir and for the first time, an interactive Tutorial run by Dr. Mihai Pomarlan, Dr. Stefano De Giorgis and Dr. Nikolaos Tsiogkas! This edition of the workshop will be great!

Honoured to have a job that allows me to learn during office hours.

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3rd mission: Over 600 people attended my popular science presentation on AI!

On September 16th and 18th, I had the fantastic honour of talking about AI at Jönköping’s Senioruniveristetet: a non-profit organisation that supports life-long learning through lectures and workshops for people over 60.

With some 600 registered participants, the lecture “Artificiell Intelligens: från science fiction till verklighet” (“AI: from science fiction to reality”) held in Immanuelskyrkans hall, was so popular that the organisation asked me to hold the presentation twice! What a fantastic honour!

The third mission (reaching out to the general) is often one of the hardest components of a successful academic career as much of the work we do is too specific for the public. Finding good venues and channels in which it is possible to spread information, knowledge and research results is, therefore, often very difficult for us academics. Thus, I am truly very grateful to have been invited to speak to such a large group of people with so much knowledge and engagement with the topic of the talk.

Humbling!

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Paper accepted at ROBOT 2024

Truly happy and very proud to announce that the master thesis work by Jorge Aguirregomezcorta Aina which I supervised has been accepted in a shorter version at the Seventh Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT2024), held in Madrid later this year.

The paper is called “Twist and Snap: A Neuro-symbolic System for Affordance Learning of Opening Jars and Bottles” and is written by Jorge Aguirregomezcorta Aina and Maria M. Hedblom

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The 8th Image Schema Day to take place at AI*IA

ISD8: Bozen-Bolzano, November 25-28th

The Image Schema Day workshop series has run for 7 editions and we are happy to announce that the workshop will run for an eighth time. This time as part of the workshop program at the 23rd conference of the Italian Association of Artificial Intelligence.

Submission deadline: 1st of September

More information on: https://isd8.imageschema.net/

Join us!

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Paper accepted at RuleML+RR 2024

I am happy to announce that the paper “Revising Defeasible Theories via Instructions” written by Mihai Pomarlan, Laura Spillner Maria M. Hedblom and Robert Porzel, has made it into the Declarative AI conference RuleML+RR.

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“The Diagrammatic Image Schema Language” to be published by Spatial Cognition and Comptuation

After a long journey and a lot of hard work, the manuscript on the research on designing and introducing a formally-founded visualisation language to represent image-schematic relations and events has been accepted for publication.

The article “The Diagrammatic Image Schema Language” authored by Maria M. Hedblom, Fabian Neuhaus and Till Mossakowski, will be published in an upcoming edition of the journal Spatial Cognition and Computation.

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Only a few days left until ICCC’24 starts!

Together with the Association for Computational Creativity, we at JTH are organising the 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’24). We have some 100 participants registered, a full scientific program, great social program planned!

Registration is still open for the spontaneous of you!
https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc24/

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