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According to the WHO, one in every eight people in the world lives with a mental disorder, a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotional regulation, or behaviour. Which impacts do recent advances in artificial intelligence have on mental health issues? Experts on the topic share their insights. Author:… Read More »AI for the Common Good: Mental Health

In the Business Arena, host David Kennedy took a closer look at the economic priorities of post-war Ukraine. Topics discussed included: the reconstruction of Ukraine, post-war recommendations, and integration into the European Union. TVP World’s guest was Prof. Dr. Christopher Hartwell of the ZHAW School of Management and Law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjAw5gQDEMM&t=426s More articles… Read More »Post-war plan for rebuilding Ukraine

We all make mistakes: we are human after all. But what about machines? As they are programmed by humans, they are also prone to errors. In the case of automatic text generation, researchers from the Center of Artificial Intelligence (CAI) developed a new way of proof checking the various systems – fully… Read More »How well do chatbots or AI translators perform?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making headlines recently. AI tools that can create text or images (e.g., ChatGTP or Dall-E) are on the rise. Felix Schmitt-Koopmann asked himself how AI could automatically detect mathematical formulae in a text and ultimately help visually impaired people. He created the new database “FormulaNet” to… Read More »New database helps AI recognize mathematical formulae

“Interdisciplinary” is a word that everyone uses, when asked how science projects should ideally take place. The ZHAW Datalab, one of the first Data Science labs in Europe, embodies exactly this notion. The 2023 symposium not only showcased successful examples, but it also highlighted the goals of the Datalab: it… Read More »10 years ZHAW Datalab

This article was first published on the ZHAW Digital Futures Lab blog. The interview was conducted by Johanna Seiwald (ZHAW digital). Congratulations Dr. Lilach Goren Huber for winning the Best Presentation Award and DIZH fellow Dr. Jürg Meierhofer for the Best Paper Award at the Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS) this year! The SDS is… Read More »And the Awards go to … Smart Services and Predictive Maintenance 

The ZHAW Datalab is a group of experts from all departments, solving practical problems with data. And the new Bachelor’s program “Data Science” at the ZHAW School of Engineering has started well in the last semester. But what does the career of a data scientist look like? Read here the… Read More »What does it mean to be a data scientist?

Corinna Hertweck has been working in a research project at the ZHAW School of Engineering since 2020 and is a doctoral student at the University of Zurich. In a joint project with the ZHAW, University of Zurich and University of St. Gallen, she is working on the interface between technology… Read More »Gender bias and (in)fair algorithms: “Fairness depends on our values”

Can algorithms make fair and just decisions? This question is explored in four short films that ZHAW researchers have created in cooperation with “AlgorithmWatch Switzerland” and which can be seen from 11 February 2022 in the “Planet Digital” exhibition at the Museum of Design Zurich. Whether in job applications, the… Read More »How fair can artificial intelligence be?