IIIM Research Scientist Dr. Jacky Mallett will speak in an Expert Seminar Series on Economic Policy and Financial Regulation and Governance at the University of Essex, England, tomorrow the fifth of February. The seminar is held as part of the course MSc Computational Economics, Financial Markets and Policy.

Dr. Mallett will speak of her unique economic simulation, Threadneedle, which is a simulation framework that allows the behaviour of banking systems and their influence on the macroeconomy to be explored in an experimental fashion. Continue reading Seminar on a Simulated Banking System →

We are happy to announce that Dr. Gísli Hjálmtýsson has joined IIIM’s advisory board. Mr. Hjálmtýsson is the Managing Partner of the venture capital company Thule Investments, and former IIIM Board Member , who has over 25 years of experience as an innovator, entrepreneur and manager. Continue reading Gísli Hjámtýsson joins IIIM advisory board →

Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist’s thirst for knowledge with a philosopher’s quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that helped inspire the creation of the personal computer and the Internet, died on Sunday night in Boston. He was 88.

Well before the advent of the microprocessor and the supercomputer, Professor Minsky, a revered computer science educator at M.I.T., laid the foundation for the field of artificial intelligence by demonstrating the possibilities of imparting common-sense reasoning to computers.

You can read more on Minsky in this New York Times article.

The moral and legal dilemmas of using autonomous systems in armed conflict are of the outmost importance and a worthy subject for the World Economic Forum, which took place last weekend in Davos, Switzerland.

Is it morally justifiable to leave life and death decisions to a machine? Are soldiers and commanders able to meet the complex demands of moral and legal conduct in war by using tele-operated system in battle, and furthermore will these machine become capable of complying with these rules themselves? Continue reading Preface for the World Economic Forum’s session “What if Robots go to War” →