IIIM and CMLabs’ CoCoMap project will be featured on the Hannover Messe, the 24th to the 26th of April 2017.

This will be the first demo of the project – an endeavour which proposes to improve natural human-robot communication and collaboration by allowing robots and humans to work together on tasks requiring real-time dialogue skills.

The Hannover Messe demo will allow one person to stand in front of the computer and verbally organize a time slot for a meeting with a few other people. The computer will check the time slot against other participants’ schedules and get back with a response. While waiting for the response the computer might even throw in a chat about the weather. Continue reading Schedule a meeting with Grandma in Hannover →

Thought – does it define man? – an open meeting held at DeCODE Genetics last Wednesday the 29th of March was a great success with over 560 attendees.

IIIM director Kristinn R. Thórisson was one of three lectures and held an errand on Understanding and Intelligence in Humans and Robots. The entire errand can be watched here.

Due to the extremely good attendance the lectures had to be broadcast in two additional halls at DeCODE genetics headquarters.

IIIM’s Director, Kristinn R. Thórisson, will have an errand at an open meeting at DeCode Genetics this coming Wednesday, the 29th of March  at 17:00–18:30 , Sturlugötu 8.

The lectures will be in Icelandic and the event is open to everyone.

See further information here.

IIIM scientist Dr. Jacky Mallett will speak at a TED event this evening, the 23rd of March, about the economic system and her economic simulation – Threadneedle – focusing on a Construction loan experiment.

Dr. Mallett will be joined by speakers  Arnar Sigurdsson – one of the founders of Karolina Fund, Hlynur Þór Björnsson – industrial engineer, Gunnar Stefansson -professor of statistics at the University of Iceland  and Anna Helga Jónsdóttir – adjunct lecturer in statistics at the University of Iceland.

The current economic system, we are told, is failing. Looking at the underlying assumptions behind it will lead to the following questions: What do we ultimately value in our society and how? Having that in mind, how can we move towards valuing different things or, differently valuing the same things? Are these things changing their identity because of the value we attribute to them.

TEDxReykjavík is hosting the event at Prepp Restaurant, Rauðarárstíg 8. All the lectures wil be in English. See more information on the faceboook event. Note that there is a limited number of tickets for the event.