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EIT Manufacturing South East, dedicated to fostering innovation and growth in the manufacturing sector, launches the AI-IGNITE open call that seeks to promote Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital transformation across the South East region.  AI-IGNITE 2024 is one of the initiatives that emerged following the collaboration agreement between EIT Manufacturing South East and the Greek Satellite of AI-MATTERS with the goal of enhancing the competitiveness of the local business ecosystem by promoting the testing and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.     The AI-IGNITE 2024 open call will award the five (5) top companies positioned for significant growth within the AI landscape, with:  A financial award of €10,000 per beneficiary from EIT Manufacturing South East for implementing their development plans   A ticket of up to €40.000 of in-kind contribution from the AI-MATTERS Greek Satellite [an entity dedicated to advancing the adoption of AI technologies in manufacturing and related industries] covering the required infrastructure and expertise to design, engineer, deploy, and evaluate the beneficiaries’ solutions in their Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEF)   A growth package of up to three (3) months of dedicated Access-to-Market (A2M) support services from EIT Manufacturing South East Business Development & Innovation team      Call Details  Submission deadline: 9 September 2024   Final Event Day: 3 October 2024   Call guidelines: https://lnkd.in/eMFKHdxZ

Join us for an interesting talk by Rebecca Pattichis 📍THURSDAY 1st AUGUST 12:00 at CYENS C.o.E. Large Language Models (LLMs) have been touted as extremely effective for representing and generating language, with ChatGPT as a prime example. However, how do LLMs hold against popular community speech patterns, such as code-switching between multiple languages? What challenges are present for spoken languages without a standardized orthography (such as Cypriot Greek)? This talk will outline the speaker's experience tackling both questions, as well as outline current approaches by other respected researchers in NLP and computational linguistics. Rebecca Pattichis is currently working with Dr. Spyros Armosts at the University of Cyprus to develop a semi-automatic pipeline from unnormalized Cypriot Greek text to its International Phonetic Alphabet representation. She did her MS in Computer Science as a Google Deepmind Fellow under Dr. Nanyung Peng at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she worked on analyzing transcribed bilingual speech patterns. She completed her BS with Honors under Dr. Christopher Manning at Stanford University, where she specialized in Artificial Intelligence and developed her interest in LLMs for code-switching tasks. Her research interests lie in centering multilingualism to analyze how popular language model's assumptions may break, as well as collaborating with community linguists to develop contextual language technologies.

🌟 Introducing Magic Lantern LTD! 🌟 We are thrilled to announce the launch of Magic Lantern LTD, an innovative and dynamic spinoff from CYENS. This talented team provides top-notch technical and consulting services to organizations and institutions, helping them showcase their work through interactive technologies. Who are they? Magic Lantern LTD specializes in: 🎯Software Development: Crafting bespoke and ready-made solutions tailored to client needs. 🎯Hardware Development: Building innovative devices to enhance user experiences. 🎯Design: Creating visually stunning and functional interfaces. 🎯Research and Content Creation: Conducting thorough research and producing engaging content. 🎯Consulting: Offering expert advice and support to ensure project success. Exciting Developments: Magic Lantern LTD is currently developing their MVP, the Magic Lantern—a light, compact, and portable device that augments multimedia content (e.g., images, video, sound) over custom-made printed books, creating more engaging reading experiences. Achievements: 📍SU4P Mini Accelerator Bootcamp: Successfully participated in this prestigious program. 📍IDEA Accelerator Programme: Out of 84 teams, Magic Lantern LTD was one of the six selected for the 9th cycle. 📍STAGE B of IDEA Programme: Secured initial funding and advanced to the next stage. 📍Pre-Seed Proposal: Actively planning to submit a proposal for further development. Meet the CEO: Fotos Frangoudes leads the team with vision and dedication, driving Magic Lantern LTD towards innovation and excellence. Stay tuned for updates and insights from Magic Lantern LTD as they continue to revolutionize the way we interact with multimedia content. Follow their journey as they bring the Magic Lantern to life and make waves in the tech world!

The Museum Lab of CYENS Centre of Excellence and the Hellenic Observatory, LSE is happy to release the policy brief “Seven Strategies for Reframing Photographic Archives: Archaeology, Colonialism, and Museums.” The policy brief offers recommendations for museums interested in decolonizing or “re-framing” their colonial-era photographic archives and is one of the outcomes of the project “De-colonizing Archaeology Related Photographic Archives” (2022-2024). The project was funded by the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and the @A.G. Leventis Foundation. You can download a PDF of the brief from here 👉 https://shorturl.at/Zxaxm

Dr. Evgenia Christoforou gave an interview about her experience as a PhD student at IMDEA Networks Institute and her current career path as a Research Associate at CYENS – Centre of Excellence and the Coordinator of the KeepA(n)I project funded by the Ίδρυμα Έρευνας και Καινοτομίας/Research and Innovation Foundation under grant EXCELLENCE/0421/0360. https://lnkd.in/d3XA6Jqi During the interview, Dr. Christoforou invited everyone to have a look at the project’s results 👉 https://lnkd.in/dWdindQe

Η Δρ. Στυλιανή Κλεάνθους, Συνεπικεφαλής της Ερευνητικής Ομάδας fAIre στο Κέντρο Αριστείας CYENS και Ανώτερη Ερευνήτρια στο Κυπριακό Κέντρο Αλγοριθμικής Διαφάνειας (CyCAT) στο Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, υπηρέτησε ως Πρόεδρος της Επιτροπής Διδακτορικών Φοιτητών στο 32ο Συνέδριο της ACM UMAP 2024. Το συνέδριο πραγματοποιήθηκε στις 1-4 Ιουλίου 2024 στο Κάλιαρι. Στο ίδιο συνέδριο, η Μαρία Κασινίδου, υποψήφια διδάκτωρ στο Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου και Ερευνητική Συνεργάτιδα στο CyCAT, παρουσίασε στο Doctoral Consortium την καινοτόμο έρευνά της για την ανάπτυξη εξατομικευμένων εργαλείων για την ενίσχυση της γνώσης διαφόρων ακροατηρίων σε θέματα τεχνητής νοημοσύνης. . . 🇬🇧 Dr. Styliani Kleanthous Loizou, Research Group Co-Leader of the fAIre Research Group at CYENS Centre of Excellence and Senior Researcher at the CyCAT | Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency at the Open University of Cyprus, served as a Doctoral Consortium Chair at the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2024). The conference took place from July 1-4, 2024, in Cagliari, Italy. At the same conference, Maria Kasinidou, PhD candidate at the Open University of Cyprus and Research Associate at CyCAT, participated in the UMAP 2024 Doctoral Consortium. Maria presented her innovative research on developing personalized tools to promote AI literacy for diverse audiences. ℹ️ https://lnkd.in/edtCU-96 #ΑΠΚΥ #OpenUniversityCyprus #UMAP2024 #artificialintelligence #AI #research #highereducation #usermodelling #researchwork #lifelonglearning #distancelearning #doctoral #consortiums #AILiteracy

The president of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides along with the prime minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis interacting with Nemata map of Cyprus, presented here by Deputy Minister of Culture Vasiliki Kassianidou who commissioned the work created at CYENS - Thinker Maker Space to commemorate fifty years since 1974. NEMATA invites you to reflect on your journey: Where were you living in 1974? Where do you live today? Where have you been in the meantime? By pulling threads that record your movements across the island, your personal history will intertwine with the stories of other refugees. Special thanks to our amazing technicians, Stratis Pantelides and Alexis Charalambous that created the physically interactive map and Andreas Papapetrou for the project management on behalf of the deputy ministry of culture. Designed and fabricated at CYENS - Thinker Maker Space , this maps have traveled to various cities across Cyprus. In parallel one may find here https://lnkd.in/e5J55y5G a fabulous digital version created by CYENS Centre of Excellence  3D/SW Development Team: Tereza Kourra, Andreas Socratous, Marios Pafitis and Kyriacos Larmos, where strings are automatically tied on the map based on the information you provide, with all data securely archived. lastly a big thanks goes also to Charalambos Carlos Paschalides, Styliana Manthopoulou and Georgia Papasozomenou for their impromptu aid . #NEMATA #CYENS #DeputyMinistryOfCultureCY #Commemoration #Cyprus #ParticipatoryArt #CollectiveMemory #RefugeeStories

We have proudly contributed in "NEMATA" participatory project organised by the Deputy Ministry of Culture, by fabricating custom maps of Cyprus and installing them at each location. The project will be travelling to all cities of Cyprus and we invite you to share your story by adding a thread! Locations: 16/7/24, 19:00 - Larnaca, Europe Square 17/7/24, 19:00 - Paphos, Kennedy Square 18/7/24, 19:00 - Ayia Napa, Municipal Museum Thalassa 19/7/24, 19:00 - Nicosia, Eleftherias Square 21/7/24, 19:00 - Limassol, Molos (Πλατεία Επίχωσης) CYENS Centre of Excellence #cyens #thinkermakerspace #makerspace #nicosia #cyprus #project #collaboration #workinprogress #projectdevelopment #nemata

The book and exhibition “Talking Hands” examine the experiences and stories of residents of Episkopi village in Cyprus whose lives were interwoven in one way or another by archaeological work. To give voice to the “hands” of archaeology, photographer/researcher Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, archaeologists Elisavet Stefani and Michael Given, and historian Polina Nikolaou, PhD, conducted an oral history and photography project titled “Talking Hands”.   The project was funded by the Cyprus University of Technology and the CYENS Centre of Excellence (Museum Lab). The book is published by the Department of Antiquities and is available from the Cyprus Museum and the Local Archaeological Museum of Kourion, Episkopi.   The photography exhibition “Talking Hands” will remain open till September 30th, 2024. Where: Local Archaeological Museum of Kourion, Episkopi Opening times: Monday-Friday, 08:00-15:30, closed during the weekend    More about the book and exhibition here: https://shorturl.at/39npj