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AI World Society Announces History of AI 2020 Awards

31 Dec, 2020

RELEASE: December 31, 2020 1200 EST / 1800 CET   AI World Society Announces History of AI 2020 Awards   BOSTON – The AI World Society today announced the History of AI 2020 Awards. The HAI Awards recognize people and achievements in the AI...

HAI 2020 Nomination – Joy Buolamwini

30 Dec, 2020

NOMINATION History of AI 2020 Joy Buolamwini Joy Adowaa Buolamwini is a Ghanaian-American computer scientist and digital activist based at the MIT Media Lab. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League, an organisation that looks to challenge bias in decision...

HAI 2020 Nomination – Ursula von der Leyen

30 Dec, 2020

NOMINATION   History of AI 2020 President Ursula von der Leyen   Trained as a physician, Ursula von der Leyen entered politics as a cabinet minister in the German state of Lower Saxony. When Angela Merkel became German chancellor in 2005, she...

HAI 2020 Nomination – DeepMind/AlphaFold

30 Dec, 2020

Towards the end of 2020, Google DeepMind announced that they developed an AI network (AlphaFold) that determines a protein’s 3D shape from its amino-acid sequence. The ability to accurately predict protein structures from their amino-acid sequence would...