Center Director Jon Atle Gulla
Photo: Kai T Dragland, NTNU
Scandinavian newspapers were early adapters to online services 25 years ago. Gradually some of them explored how recommender systems would enable individually tailored news streams. In an article in AI Magazine recently NorwAI associates, headed by Center director Jon Atle Gulla (picture) explore how Scandinavian media organizations are coping with these new technological opportunities.
2021-12-20
New National AI Cloud funded: Providing compute power on demand
A national infrastructure offering new digital tools can provide researchers with compute power on demand, limiting the need for individual projects or research groups to wrestle with buying their own dedicated machine learning hardware - hardware that often ends sitting idle much of the time.
A jovial tone and the discussion floated smoothly when our future king wanted to know more about the possibilities AI can offer Norway. NorwAI center head Jon Atle Gulla painted with ease a positive narrative, although there are dilemmas, for one of the most promising technologies at hand.
A joyful morning conversation between the Crownprince and professor Jon Atle Gulla called for smile and laughter at the royal table. Photo: Kai T Dragland, NTNU
Chair of the Board, Telenor VP Ieva Martinkenaite, personally engaged herself in recruiting innovators to her committee. She went across the Atlantic to find two of her choices for the job.
2021-12-17
Cooperation with PERSEUS adds new PhD students to NorwAI
The Horizon 2020 funded PERSEUS programme, in an interdepartemental effort by IE Faculty at NTNU, has generously awarded NorwAI with additional PhDs. The students will start their work in 2022.
Professor, Vice Dean of Research,
Ingelin Steinsland at
the Departement of Mathematical
Sciences is the project coordinator
for the ambitious PERSEUS programme.
Photo: Kai T. Dagland, NTNU
At NorwAI Innovate, Telenor's Ieva Martinkenaite gave the main keynote. Photo: Kai T Dragland, NTNU
Ieva Martinkeinate, VP at Telenor, gave the audience an inspired state-of-the-art overview of artificial intelligence by the end of 2021. Is it still cool?
Chairman of the board Sven Størmer Thalow, daily EVP and Chief Data and Technology Officer in the Schibsted Group, says that the conference NorwAI Innovate had the ambition to become the most important meeting place for Norway's AI environment.
- The conference was sold out. I think we are already the largest in Norway of its kind. NorwAI is an ambitious project that has brought together many important Norwegian industrial companies and academic institutions for a joint effort. It bodes well for the sequel.
The two "summer research assistants" Christian Riksvold and Lars Ådne Heimdal at NorwAI have spent the summer weeks getting to know the very latest generation of robots.
For more details on the development of the dialogue system in the project: Furhat Dialogue System
Claes Lyth Walsø, chief information officer at Retriever
Retriever steps up its more than decade long work for digital development by joining NorwAI. Other media analysis companies worldwide had questions to ask.
All electricity produced by wind farms is handled automatically by AI. Parts of the energy trade already take place in real time by an AI “algotrader”, says Gøril Forbord, EVP Technology at TrønderEnergi, about innovative use of AI in her field.
2021-05-21
Our research strategy: Generic and multi-disciplinary
Our approach to research at NorwAI is fundamentally multi-disciplinary, consisting of both technical-oriented and socio-economic research. Research in NorwAI will focus on generic research areas within AI that can support the innovation activities in the center. Learn more about NorwAI’s research strategy.
2021-05-20
Meet Benjamin Kille, a new NTNU postdoctoral fellow, associated to NorwAI
Benjamin Kille joined NTNU and the Department of Computer Science as a postdoctoral fellow just recently, from 1st May. He is a member of the AI/Big Data collaboration project between DNB and NTNU, and his work will be closely connected to the work packages on language technologies and recommender systems in NorwAI.
Peng works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation (NorwAI) at NTNU, and started in December 2020. He is now working on Large-Scale Norwegian Language Models in various applications which is the first “deep dive” innovation project at NorwAI.org.
2021-05-18
-Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible (Alan Turing)
At NxtMedia Conference, Professor Jon Atle Gulla talks about his dreams for the years to come as NorwAI’s center director in a dialogue with Astrid Undheim, Vice President at SpareBank1 SMN and Schibsted’s EVP and Chief Data and Technology Officer Sven Størmer Thaulow. The talk is led by editor Ingeborg Volan at Dagens Næringsliv. Video (in Norwegian):
NorwAI’s COB, Sven Størmer Thalow, reveals his special relation to NTNU where he once studied computer science in the internet hype years of the 90’ies. He returns to Trondheim with high hopes and expectations to the possibilities of NorwAI. Read My return to old halls.
Why is the international publisher Schibsted heading a 5, possible 8 years, research program? Sven Størmer Thaulow, EVP of the media giant, explains the belief in AI’s transformable powers in this talk (in Norwegian).
The consumer world is already using data on a large scale, but industry still has a way to go. Without better ways to extract, contextualize and make industrial data useful, AI innovation within Norway’s largest, biggest impact industries will have no fuel, says John Markus Lervik, CEO of Cognite.
The NorwAI center is determined to provide new Norwegian language models that are significantly larger and better than what is available to-day and can easily be employed in advanced Norwegian NLP applications for industrial use, says center director professor Jon Atle Gulla.
Digital Norway holds expertise in both technology as well as data infrastructure tailor-made for Norwegian industry. DigitalNorway will offer training and courses on AI in collaboration with NorwAI, says Annita Fjuk, head of academic partnerships and research at the digital innovation hub.
NorwAI’s interdisciplinary design of two pillars, one to study impact of AI on society and a second one to explore trustworthiness of AI solutions are key, says Asun Lera St Claire, Program Director, digital assurance DNV Group Research and Development.
2021-04-20
Ultimately it all leads up to industrial innovations
The focus of NorwAI is research-based innovation based on data-driven AI, says Chief Scientist at SINTEF Arne Jørgen Berre, Innovation Director at NorwAI, whose work package aim to coordinate all innovation activities in the center.
Our customers move into digital solutions and we need to be able to reconnect in a digital setting. Deep personalization in combination with trustworthy AI will be a cornerstone in our digital offerings for the future, says Karl Aksel Festø, Head of CoE Advanced Analytics at DnB.
The pace of innovation will be increased for Norwegian industry as Norway invests large sums in artificial intelligence. The new research center NorwAI at NTNU in Trondheim aims at being the national power center on AI, bringing together the largest players in industry and academia.
The center will be a growth engine where the most ambitious partners gather for business-oriented research and innovation under NTNU's and SINTEF's leadership.
