In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group in Vienna developed robots that perceive unfamiliar objects in their environment and then compare them with images from the Internet in order to identify them. Continue reading “Machines learn to be curious”
In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, scientists examined how the credibility of information from the web can be assessed in order to obtain more effective data from platforms such as Flickr. Continue reading “Who can be trusted on the internet?”
IT specialist Gerhard Widmer on computers that recognise emotions, why coincidence played an important role in his scientific career, and why he became a scientist instead of a pianist. Continue reading “Beyond the mainstream”