Computer Sciences

3. July 2024

Rudolphina Experts: AI in Spatial Data Science

GeoAI: Is intelligence spatial?

Large language models or lying language models? What does truth mean in the context of AI? Guest writer Krzysztof Janowicz, Professor of Cartography and Geoinformation Science at University of Vienna, explains why the data AI feeds on will always be deeply geographical, cultural, contradictory. GeoAI is needed to help navigate the spatiotemporal context of knowledge.

4. June 2024

How AI is changing science

Artificial intelligence: The researcher ex machina

Will artificial intelligence revolutionise science? From the universe in the supercomputer to old travelogues from the Orient: Four researchers from the University of Vienna tell us how they use AI and where its limits currently lie.

22. May 2024

Guest article by

Moritz Grosse-Wentrup

Rudolphina Experts: Brain-AI interfaces

How can AI help persons with speech disabilities?

AI technologies open up new ways of communication for people with speech impairments, but also raise ethical concerns. Neuroinformatics specialist Moritz Grosse-Wentrup offers an insight into a highly topical research area.

10. May 2024

Data mining and machine learning

"AI decisions follow pre-determined tracks"

Why artificial intelligence is actually not that intelligent, why most data remain unused and how to keep track of all the rapid developments. Data expert Claudia Plant provides her insights in the Rudolphina interview.

7. May 2024

The future with AI

How to avoid AI Catastrophic Risks

Canadian computer scientist and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio is one of the world's foremost experts in AI and deep learning. On 7 May he spoke at the University of Vienna about potential catastrophic scenarios from advanced AI systems and how to prevent them. We had the opportunity to ask him a few questions beforehand.

14. November 2023

Materials for the energy transition

Supercomputer, Schrödinger and the energy revolution

How can we sustainably scale up the production of hydrogen and synthetic fuels for the post-fossil energy world? Advances in materials science could hold the key. Physicist Georg Kresse and his team use computer simulations to enable the necessary breakthroughs.

20. September 2023

AI ethics

Why we need global governance frameworks for artificial intelligence

An interdisciplinary body of experts, including three academics affiliated with the University of Vienna, supports Austria in the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Rudolphina asked them why AI governance requires a global approach and which possibilities and risks this entails.

19. January 2023

Digital Humanities

Who wrote Byzantine history?

Tara Andrews from the University of Vienna is re-evaluating the history of the Byzantine Empire. By digging for overlooked sources in archives and employing digital tools, she is adding multiple perspectives to the eventful history of the 11th century.

5. May 2021

Presenting... Physicist Valeria Saggio

Using quantum physics for machine learning

Valeria Saggio, doctoral candidate at the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics, investigates the bridge between quantum physics and artificial intelligence. Her team was able to demonstrate that the learning time of agents can be reduced when quantum physics is used in the machine learning protocol.