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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
2026 ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology. Early bird registration fee - 50% reduction (thanks to funding from The University of Manchester). Register now! 7-9 July: full details at www.ellismcr.org/ss2026 #machinelearning #summerschool @ellis.eu
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Summer School 2026 | Ellis Manchester
2026 ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Next week - 10 Dec, 11am: AI-Fun and ELLIS Manchester Invited Speaker on 10 Dec is Sam Power from the University of Bristol. Title: A State-Space Perspective on Modelling and Inference for Online Skill Rating For more details and to register, please visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/ai-research-...
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 02/12/2025
Celebrating the author contributions of our ELLIS Members and PhD Students at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 - congratulations to all authors! NeurIPS is joined for the first time by @euripsconf.bsky.social in CPH 🇩🇰, a NeurIPS-endorsed European venue co-developed by ELLIS. 🔗 bit.ly/48cRAib
ELLIS Member and PhD Students contributions to NeurIPS 2025
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Kicking off Day 2 @ellisinstitute.fi 🇫🇮 celebratory scientific seminar alongside first AI summit Opening remarks: Samuel Kaski (Director, ELLIS Institute Finland) set the tone for a day of focused scientific exchange on the future of AI @ellis.eu www.ellisinstitute.fi/launch-seminar
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 17/11/2025
🚀 ELLIS Institute Finland 🇫🇮 officially opens today, launching a hub for cutting-edge AI research, talent development, and collaboration across academia, government & industry. Opening remarks by @samikaski.bsky.social, @serge.belongie.com, Bernhard Schölkopf, PM Petteri Orpo & Peter Sarlin
Ceremonial ribbon-cutting by Peter Sarlin (Institute Co-Founder & CEO at AMD Silo AI), Serge Belongie (ELLIS President), Petteri Orpo (Prime Minister of Finland), Bernhard Schölkopf (ELLIS Co-Founder), and Samuel Kaski (Institute Founding Director and ELLIS Fellow)Opening remarks by Samuel Kaski (Institute Founding Director and ELLIS Fellow)Opening remarks by Bernhard Schölkopf (ELLIS Co-Founder), and Serge Belongie (ELLIS President)
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We are recruiting 3x Research Associate or Research Fellow in #machinelearning. Closing date 1 Dec. The post-holder will work with Professor Kaski @samikaski.bsky.social on a project connected to his UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Fellowship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job... #aifunmcr
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Samuel Kaski @samikaski.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The positions are funded by ERC, UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship, and www.elliot-ai.eu More about me and the group at kaski-lab.com
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ELLIOT Project
Explore the ELLIOT Project, a Horizon Europe initiative developing open, multimodal foundation models for robust AI generalisation across real-world data.
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Samuel Kaski @samikaski.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We do probabilistic machine learning, develop new principles and methods and apply them with collaborators in other domains, as AI4Research and AI4Science. Direct link to Manchester call: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Direct link to Helsinki call: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
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Samuel Kaski @samikaski.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I am hiring to my group in @ellisinstitute.fi and @aifunmcr.bsky.social, DL Dec 1 Topics: Multimodal foundation models, out-of-distribution deployable machine learning, collaborative machine learning kaski-lab.com
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Our refreshed 'Invited Speaker Series' is well under way. This month we had Pablo Moreno Muñoz from @upf.edu with a talk titled 'A probabilistic view of self-supervised learning: Challenges and opportunities'. You can watch that here: youtu.be/tA0eNAGc9PY?... Nov and Dec talk details to follow...
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Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health @fbmh-uom.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
At The University of Manchester, we're celebrating 75 years of the Turing Test. Alan Turing's seminal paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, is considered one of the very first papers on AI.
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Patients and staff welcome AI as a GP's helping hand
Manchester researcher and practicing GP, Dr Benjamin Brown, knows that AI could play a valuable role in the health sector, but only if it’s trusted by patients.  "AI has the potential to reduce worklo...
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 02/10/2025
🏹 Job alert: Post-Doc in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in the scope of the ERC project DECOLLAGE ("Deep Cognition Learning for Language Generation") at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon 📍Lisbon 🇵🇹 📅 Apply by Oct 31st bit.ly/3VGnhtd
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Post-Doc in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...
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ELLIS Institute Finland @ellisinstitute.fi · 18/09/2025
"Science is the best problem-solving tool that humanity has; science combined with AI can be even more powerful." This why it pays to invest in long-term, basic research, says @samikaski.bsky.social in the @aalto.fi Keys to Growth series. www.ellisinstitute.fi/keys-to-grow... @ellis.eu
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Keys to growth: Basic research in AI is like long-term investing | ELLIS Institute Finland
Basic research in AI doesn’t always generate quick wins or clickbait headlines, but its benefits can be seen throughout society
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Still deciding between NeurIPS and EurIPS? We are delighted to announce that the 1st Workshop on Epistemic Intelligence in Machine Learning will take place in conjunction with EurIPS2025, this December in Copenhagen - check out our workshop website: sites.google.com/view/eiml-eu...
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Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems—ranging from predictive models to generative and large language models—have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, advancing science, healthcare, and everyda...
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The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · 16/09/2025
At Manchester, we’re building on Turing’s legacy: 800+ AI researchers £75m active grants Projects in health, climate, energy & beyond From predicting floods to accelerating drug discovery, AI here is tackling real-world challenges. Read more 👇 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...
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The past, present, and future of computer intelligence | The University of Manchester
Research. Teaching and learning. Social responsibility. Discover more about The University of Manchester here.
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The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · 16/09/2025
Turing believed computers should learn like children: start simple, then develop through training + experience. That idea underpins today’s machine learning. His foresight still shapes AI research.
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The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · 16/09/2025
In 1950, Alan Turing - while at @manchester.ac.uk - proposed a simple but profound experiment: can a machine convincingly imitate human thought? We now call it the Turing Test. 🧠💻
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 16/09/2025
📣 Good news! The submission deadline for Posters and Demos at #AIS25 has been extended to Oct 1st. Organised by the Danish EU Presidency, European Commission & Uni Copenhagen in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 , on 3-4 November 2025. Learn more & submit early at ais25.eu #AIS25 #AI #eu2025dk
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AI in Science Summit 2025
AI in Science Summit 2025 will convene scientists, industry leaders, investors, and policymakers to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on scientific discovery - and how Europe can drive this transformation with a distinctive an...
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
DRSciML 2025 is under way! Follow us on LinkedIn for updates: www.linkedin.com/posts/ai-fun...
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#machinelearning | Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals
DRSciML 2025 is under way! George Stepaniants is talking about 'Learning Memory and Material Dependent Constitutive Laws' Anirbit Mukherjee #machinelearning The University of Manchester Faculty of ...
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Omar Rivasplata @omarrivasplata.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
✨ We kicked off a new season of talks, the AI FUN with ELLIS Invited Speaker Lecture series, brought to you by the Centre for AI FUNdamentals and the #ELLIS Unit at Manchester 🐝 The 1️⃣st talk was given by our guest speaker Rafael Izbicki (@rafael-izbicki.bsky.social) from UFSCar in Brazil 🇧🇷
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
3 Sept | Our first event of 2025/26 is an invited lecture from Rafael Izbicki from the Federal University of Sao Carlos with a talk titled 'Simulation Based Calibration of Confidence Sets for Statistical Models'. For details/registration, visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/ai-research-... #aifunmcr #ai
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Digital Futures @digitaluom.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🔔 For @manchester.ac.uk academics only: Join the "Future Is Biological! DNA Data Storage Workshop. 📅 2 Octorber, 2025 🕛 12:00–16:00 🎟️ Register now: shorturl.at/cGMGq Explore DNA-based innovation in a friendly, collaborative setting. Got questions or want to present? 📧izzy.hall@manchester.ac.uk
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The Future Is Biological! Future Data Storage Solutions Workshop
Join the conversation on DNA data storage: where tech meets biology to rethink the future.
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Interested in joining the Centre for AI Fundamentals as a Project Officer? Find out more about the role and apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Project Officer:Oxford Road
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Anirbit @anirbit.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Registrations are now open for the international workshop on foundations of #AI4Science #SciML that we are hosting with Prof. Jakob Zech. In-person seats are very limited, please do register to join online 💥 drsciml.github.io/drsciml/
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Anirbit @anirbit.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I got selected for the "Early Career Highlights" of ACM IKDD International Conference on Data Science (CODS) 2025. Looking forward to the talk at IISER, Pune in December. www.acm.org/articles/acm...
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Call for Papers & Proposals - IKDD CODS 2025
Call for papers and proposals announced for CODS 2025 across various tracks of the conference. The next edition of the conference will be held in IISER Pune on December 17-20, 2025. Go through the det...
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Anirbit @anirbit.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Some luck to be hosted by a Godel Prize winner, Prof. Sebastien Pokutta, and to present our work in their group 💥 Sebastien heads this "Zuse Institute Berlin (#ZIB) " which is an amazing oasis of applied mathematics bringing together experts from different institutes in Berlin.
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Interested in statistics? Prof Subhashis Ghoshal will be delivering the below public lecture tomorrow: Title: Immersion posterior: Meeting Frequentist Goals under Structural Restrictions Time: Aug 5 16:00-17:00 Abstract: www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/45562/ Livestream: www.newton.ac.uk/news/watch-l...
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Interested in joining the Centre for AI Fundamentals as a Research Fellow or Associate in machine learning? Find out more about the role and apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 27/06/2025
🏹 Job alert: Fully funded PhD Student and/or Postdoc Position in Agentic Large Language Models for Education at @ukplab.bsky.social‬ 📍Darmstadt 🇩🇪 📅 Apply by July 11th 🔗 More info: bit.ly/44gswnc
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PhD Student/Postdoc Position - in Agentic Large Language Models for Education
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Omar Rivasplata @omarrivasplata.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
🚨 NeurIPS 2025 Reviewers - A reminder that his year the Responsible Review Initiative is in effect. To learn what this implies for reviewers who fail to submit high quality reviews within the timeline, see the link. Reviews are due 2nd July 11.59pm AOE blog.neurips.cc/2025/05/02/r...
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Responsible Reviewing Initiative for NeurIPS 2025 – NeurIPS Blog
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Anirbit @anirbit.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Our "delta-GCLip" is the *only* known adaptive gradient algorithm that provably trains deep-nets AND is practically competitive. That's the message of our recently accepted #TMLR paper - and my 4th TMLR journal 🙂 openreview.net/pdf?id=ABT1X... #optimization #deeplearningtheory
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Welcoming our @raeng.org.uk Google DeepMind 'Research Ready' interns today. @omarrivasplata.bsky.social gave an overview of the scheme and a little about what AI researchers @manchester.ac.uk do. Welcome all (3 supervisors also pictured!)! #ai #artificialintelligence #aifunmanchester
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Our next seminar on Weds (18th June) is from Prof Theo Damoulas from the U of Warwick. Theo's talk is titled 'Distributionally Robust Optimisation with Bayesian Ambiguity Sets' And it's free! More details: www.ticketsource.co.uk/ai-research-.... @ellis.eu #aifunmanchester #ellismanchester
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
ELLIS Manchester are now supporting the Athens NLP 2025 Summer School which is taking place in Athens from 4-10 September 2025. There is still time to apply to participate! athnlp.github.io/2025/ #ELLISManchester
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Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School 2025
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 04/06/2025
🏹 Job alert: Post-Doc at the Intersection of AI and Software Engineering at the Software Lab - @unistuttgart.bsky.social‬ 📍 Stuttgart 🇩🇪 🔗 More info: bit.ly/3FtU5kA
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Day one of the 2025 ELLIS Manchester Summer School is into its final session. Good start to the week! #ELLISManchester
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Event room all ready for the ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology to start tomorrow. #aifunmanchester #ellismanchester
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Excellent talk on 'Decoding Biology by Learning Meaningful Representations of Cell Morphologies from Single-Cell Imaging Phenomaps' today from Kristina Ulicna who made it up to Manchester, no thanks to the UK rail network! Thanks Kristina! #AIFunManchester #ELLISManchester
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 20/05/2025
Looking for exclusive AI/ML research jobs in Europe? 🌍 Advance your career with opportunities at top labs in the ELLIS Network. Browse the jobs & sign up for the new Jobs newsletter: ellis.eu/jobs #AIJobs #PhD #Postdoc #BrainGain
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Jobs in the ELLIS Network
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Happy to share that our very own Michele Caprio has been elected a Junior Member of the @NewtonInstitute! If you want to organize a meeting or a workshop, especially on Applied Probability (in ML and AI) and Imprecise Probabilities, please reach out and we'll put you in touch.
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Digital Futures @digitaluom.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Dr @edoardo-ponti.bsky.social holds academic roles at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social‬, University of Cambridge, and NVIDIA. His work spans computational typology, modular deep learning, and efficient NLP. 📅 9–10 June 🎟️ tinyurl.com/yurknk7y @eusci.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social
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Digital Futures @digitaluom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A scholar of @ellis.eu and co-founder of SIGTYP, Dr @edoardo-ponti.bsky.social is known for his work on the intersection of language typology and machine learning. 🎟️ tinyurl.com/yurknk7y @edinburghup.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @edcdcs.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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Digital Futures @digitaluom.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
⌛Only 1 month to go until #ADSAI2025! Join global experts shaping the future of AI & data science. 🎤 Talks by Prof @lawrennd.bsky.social, Dr @edoardo-ponti.bsky.social, Dr @chryssazrv.bsky.social & more! 🔗 Register now: lnkd.in/eSmzBkww @mrattray.bsky.social @mioir.bsky.social @uomif.bsky.social
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Digital Futures @digitaluom.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Prof @lawrennd.bsky.social is the DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge & former Director of Machine Learning at Amazon. Gain valuable insight into AI at both the scientific and industrial scale. 🎟️ tinyurl.com/yurknk7y @eng.cam.ac.uk @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Michele Caprio from Centre for AI Fundamentals has been nominated Action Editor of @tmlr-pub.bsky.social If you have papers on Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning; Aleatoric vs Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification and Representation; Conformal Prediction; Evidential Learning; submit to TMLR!
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Anirbit @anirbit.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A revised version of our delta-GClip algorithm - which is probably the *only* deep-learning algorithm that provably trains deep-nets while using step-size scheduling - and competes/supersedes heuristics like Adam and even Adam+Clipping on transformers. arxiv.org/abs/2404.08624
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Regularized Gradient Clipping Provably Trains Wide and Deep Neural Networks
We present and analyze a novel regularized form of the gradient clipping algorithm, proving that it converges to global minima of the loss surface of deep neural networks under the squared loss, provi...
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Digital Futures @digitaluom.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
💡 Prof. @camachocollados.bsky.social (Cardiff University) joined us last Feb to explore NLP & social media! Missed it? Watch here: tinyurl.com/3y2nxd3e 📢 Join the Conversation at the Data Science & AI Conference 2025 🗓️ 9–10 June 📍 Nancy Rothwell Building, UoM 🎟️Tickets: tinyurl.com/yurknk7y
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Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Conference 2025 | University of Manchester
The Advances in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Conference is Manchester’s annual data science and AI conference and brings together researc
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We have dozens of event videos featuring top AI / ML researchers free to view on our youtube channel. Check them out: https:// www.youtube.com/@AIResearchMcr #artificialintelligence #machinelearning
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Registration is still open for the 2025 ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology, taking place from 2-5 June in Manchester. And we’ve held ticket prices at the same level since our first ELLIS Summer School in 2023. Find out more: www.ellismcr.org/ss2025
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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