Technion and Intel open Center for Artificial Intelligence

The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and Intel Corporation inaugurated the Center for Artificial Intelligence on October 8. The new center will support research projects of Technion faculty members engaged in computational learning and artificial intelligence together with Intel researchers. Natural language processing, deep learning and hardware optimization for different learning algorithms are among the areas of interest for applications in fields including healthcare, autonomous vehicles, smart environments and home and industrial robots. "The Technion is the leading university in Israel in the field of artificial intelligence and is one of the top 10 universities in the world in the field," said the center's director, Prof. Shie Mannor from the Technion's Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering. "The Technion has about 20 faculty members whose main field of research is computational learning and another 40 [researchers] are working in related fields."