Top Irish innovators recognised at AI Awards

Top Irish innovators have been recognised at the third annual AI Awards, with STATSports, Fire1, ACI Worldwide and Infant Research Centre among this year's winners. The awards are designed to support the development of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) in Ireland, recognising how AI can be used ethically to help solve some of the biggest business, academic, environmental and health challenges facing our society today. University College Cork's Infant Centre, which uses deep learning to detect neonatal seizures, won an award for the best application of AI in an academic research body, beating competition from shortlisted entries Maynooth University for Terrain AI, and Tyndall National Institute for Wearable AI.It is the third time the centre has won the award. ACI Worldwide was named best application of AI in a Large Enterprise for its development of a patented technology to transform fraud prevention in the payment solutions sector. Also shortlisted in the category was Bank of Ireland, Zalando and Shutterstock.