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The Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University's Technical Faculty of IT and Design is looking to appoint a number of Assistant Professors (tenure-track) for its new group at the university's Copenhagen Campus, commencing September 1, 2020 or soon thereafter. In 2020, the Department of Computer Science will begin building a new research group at Aalborg University's Copenhagen Campus. The group will be responsible for the newly approved bachelor's and master's educations in "Software" and will over time build its own research profile and capacity. The Copenhagen group will build upon, and contribute to the Department's broad range of synergistic activities within research and education in the general area of computer science, including curiosity-driven research and targeted research in collaboration with industrial partners, as well as traditional university education, with a unique problem- and project-based focus, and continued education and knowledge dissemination. As Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the Copenhagen Campus you are expected to deliver teaching of an international standard on the new Software education commencing in September 2020.

Facebook is set to get an even better understanding of the 700 million people who use the social network to share details of their personal lives each day. A new research group within the company is working on an emerging and powerful approach to artificial intelligence known as deep learning, which uses simulated networks of brain cells to process data. Applying this method to data shared on Facebook could allow for novel features and perhaps boost the company's ad targeting. Deep learning has shown potential as the basis for software that could work out the emotions or events described in text even if they aren't explicitly referenced, recognize objects in photos, and make sophisticated predictions about people's likely future behavior. The eight-person group, known internally as the AI team, only recently started work, and details of its experiments are still secret.

Microsoft has created a new artificial intelligence unit, as the company pushes deeper into the fast-growing field. Almost whole of Silicon Valley is diving into artificial intelligence (AI)and machine learning research, an industry estimated to boom to 70 billion by 2020 from just 8.2 billion in 2013, according to a Bank of America report that cited IDC research. On Wednesday, Microsoft teamed up with four other big technology companies - Amazon Inc, Google, Facebook and IBM - to create a non-profit organization to advance public understanding of AI technologies. The new unit called Microsoft AI and Research Group, will be headed by Harry Shum, a company veteran who has held senior roles at the Microsoft Research and Bing engineering divisions. "Microsoft has been working in artificial intelligence since the beginning of Microsoft Research, and yet we've only begun to scratch the surface of what's possible," Shum said in a statement.

Microsoft said on Thursday it created a new artificial intelligence unit, as the company pushes deeper into the fast-growing field. Silicon Valley is diving into artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning research, an industry estimated to zoom to 70 billion by 2020 from just 8.2 billion in 2013, according to a Bank of America report that cited IDC research. On Wednesday, Microsoft teamed up with four other big technology companies--Amazon.com, Alphabet unit Google, Facebook and IBM--to create a non-profit organization to advance public understanding of AI technologies. The new unit--Microsoft AI and Research Group--will be headed by Harry Shum, a company veteran who has held senior roles at the Microsoft Research and Bing engineering divisions.

Microsoft has formed a new artificial intelligence research and development initiative that brings together 5000-plus computer scientists and engineers to realise the tech giant's AI vision. Fronted by Microsoft-alumni Harry Shum, the new division will be tasked with making AI accessible and valuable for'every person and organisation', building on the company's focus on AI across apps, services and infrastructure. The news comes hot on the heels of the launch of the Partnership on AI, the cross-industry collaboration between IBM, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon. The new group will unite existing Microsoft teams including Information Platform, Cortana, Bing and robotics. Its scope will include all AI product engineering and the company is taking a four-pronged approach to the initiative.