IIIM News

News about the institution, its research & recent advances

IIIM News, Video

Aldin Interviewed About Virtual Reality in Morgunbladid

Screen Shot 2014-11-05 at 11.17.20IIIM spin-off company Aldin Dynamics has been working in the field of virtual reality for over a year now, haven most recently announced that they are working on a game for Gear VR — a mobile head-mounted display that Samsung is creating in collaboration with Oculus VR, LLC.

Recently Aldin’s founders, Hrafn Thorisson and Gunnar Valgardsson, were interviewed by the Icelandic medium Morgunbladid. The video interview can be watched here (in Icelandic), in which they discuss Aldin’s progress so far.

Continue reading Aldin Interviewed About Virtual Reality in Morgunbladid →

IIIM News

Machine Intelligence Research Institute: Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson on Constructivist AI

miri_horizontal_evenRecently the renowned Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) published an extensive interview with IIIM Director Kristinn R. Thorisson on the subject of Constructivist AI — a methodology and approach to building artificial general intelligent systems (AGI) that Thórisson and his colleagues have been developing for the past decade. The full article can be found on Miri’s website.

Continue reading Machine Intelligence Research Institute: Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson on Constructivist AI →

IIIM News

Schedule Revealed: AI Festival 2014

10471308_10152301720525672_463343655620230996_n

As we announced a few weeks ago, IIIM is reviving the AI Festival, together with Reykjavik University’s CADIA. The schedule is now up on the website so that visitors can attend presentations in subfields relative to their interests.  So join us for an afternoon of lectures and discussion on Friday October 31 from 2-6 pm. All the lectures will be in English and the festival is open to everyone. Continue reading Schedule Revealed: AI Festival 2014 →

IIIM News

Revival of the ArtificaI Intelligence Festival

IIIM, in collaboration with CADIA and Reykjavik University’s School of Computer Science, have decided to restart the AI Festival that was last held in 2008. This event is part of RU’s 50 year anniversary celebration of Tækniskólinn and will be held at Reykjavík University on October 31st.

Continue reading Revival of the ArtificaI Intelligence Festival →