Jozef Stefan Institute Slovenia Department of intelligent systems

“Jozef Stefan” Institute, Slovenia Department of intelligent systems Matjaž Gams

“Jozef Stefan” Institute n n 800 staff (app. 400 Ph. D) Premier research institution ¨ applied and basic research n production and control technologies n communication and computer technologies n biotechnologies n new materials n environmental technologies n nanotechnologies n nuclerar engineering n Hundreds of international projects

Department of intelligent systems n n n 20 staff one of the best national research groups, first ever from computer science chief scientist prof. Bratko, one of the leading European scientists Head prof. dr. M. Gams – cofounder of Slovenian AI society (2 terms president), Cognitive society (8 years president), Slovenian Engineering society (12 years secretary), currently exec. board for comp. s. , IFIP delegate, National council of science and technology, 250 publications in journals, proceedings the last 2 years 1 st and 7 th ranked AI journal, world-best conferences like IJCAI or AAMAS

Main research areas n n n n n Information society agent and multi-agent technologies semantic Web evolutionary computation machine learning data mining and knowledge discovery search algorithms decision support communications

Introducing information society into Slovenia n Members of both research groups have introduced several new R&D fields in Slovenia, from AI, intelligent systems, intelligent agents to recent intelligent services in information society. n In our vision, Slovenia has to move faster towards intelligent information society to foster efficient progress and better life. 10/6/2020

6 th Framework research projects and No. E n n n n ALVIS (Superpeer Semantic Search Engine) SEKT (Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies) WINDECT (Wireless Local Area Network with Integration of Professional Quality DECT Telephony) ASPIC (Argumentation Service Platform with Integrated Components) COST 526 (Automatic Process Optimization in Materials Technology APOMAT) BI-FI/04 -05 -009 (Numerical Optimization of Continuous Casting of Steel) Agent. Link III We. Go (E-government)

6 OP projekt ALVIS - Superpeer Semantic Search Engine n New “Google”, P 2 P, semantics

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True machine intelligence Ø 10 – 30 – 200 years? 10/6/2020

Quest for intelligence Strong AI hypothesis: intelligence will be achieved automatically. (Moravec, Kurtzweil) 10/6/2020

Our hypothesis: true intelligence is multiple, consisting of interacting Turing machines and an open environment. (Wegner, Gams) 10/6/2020

Influence of high knowledge (education, science) 10/6/2020

Demography 10/6/2020

The amazing power of science and technology best in intelligent information services 10/6/2020