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Can AI Put An End To Fake News? Don't Be So Sure
07/10/2018
Fake news was the Collin’s word of the year for 2017 with good reason. In a year where politics-as-usual was torn apart at the seams, high-profile scandals rocked our faith in humanity and the ...
MIT/QCRI system uses machine learning to build road maps
22/04/2018
Map apps may have changed our world, but they still haven’t mapped all of it yet. Specifically, mapping roads can be difficult and tedious: even after taking aerial images, companies still have to ...
Improving disaster response efforts through data
08/02/2018
Extreme weather events put the most vulnerable communities at high risk. How can data analytics strengthen early warning systems and and support relief efforts for communities in need? The size and ...
Your sloppy bitcoin drug deals will haunt you for years
28/01/2018
Perhaps you bought some illegal narcotics on the Silk Road half a decade ago, back when that digital black market for every contraband imaginable was still online and bustling. You might already ...
08/01/2018
Si quiere buscar un ejemplo de ciudadano del mundo, de los que al cabo del año vive y trabaja desde numerosos países, y a través de internet, esté donde esté, desarrolla en remoto actividades para ...
Gene fusion shifts cell activity into high gear, causing some cancer
04/01/2018
The fusion of two adjacent genes can cause cancer by kicking mitochondria into overdrive and increasing the amount of fuel available for rampant cell growth, researchers at Columbia University ...
QCRI team wins SUMMA BBC #NewsHack 'Best Audience Experience' prize
13/12/2017
Congratulations to Ahmed Ali, Yifan Zhang and Fahim Dalvi for winning the prize of the “Best Audience Experience” category at the news hack hosted by SUMMA and BBC in London on 21-22 November with ...
Reading a neural network’s mind
12/12/2017
Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data, have been responsible for the most impressive recent advances in artificial intelligence, ...
CSAIL hosts annual meeting highlighting innovative collaboration with QCRI
10/10/2017
This year CSAIL celebrates five years of collaboration with the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), an esteemed research institute that’s part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha. This ...
Study: On Twitter, you're better off fact-checking your crazy uncle than a complete stranger
12/09/2017
A new study has found what many of us have always thought to be true: We are more likely to accept correction from people we know than strangers. The study , conducted by researchers at Cornell, ...
In the Media
Can AI Put An End To Fake News? Don't Be So Sure
07/10/2018
Fake news was the Collin’s word of the year for 2017 with good reason. In a year where politics-as-usual was torn apart at the seams, high-profile scandals rocked our faith in humanity and the ...
MIT/QCRI system uses machine learning to build road maps
22/04/2018
Map apps may have changed our world, but they still haven’t mapped all of it yet. Specifically, mapping roads can be difficult and tedious: even after taking aerial images, companies still have to ...
Improving disaster response efforts through data
08/02/2018
Extreme weather events put the most vulnerable communities at high risk. How can data analytics strengthen early warning systems and and support relief efforts for communities in need? The size and ...
Events
Past Events
2018
QCRI Summer Internship Program
06/05/2018
- 05/07/2018
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Hamad Bin Khalifa Research Complex
Each year, Qatar Computing Research Institute organizes a summer internship program for undergraduate students studying computer science, computer engineering and other disciplines. The internship is unpaid, and QCRI does not provide any visa support.
27/03/2018
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Artificial Intelligence for Oncology: Learning to Cure Cancer from Images and Text A talk by Professor Regina Barzilay, MIT CSAIL Winner of 2017 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ At Education City Student ...
QCRI & MIT-CSAIL Annual Project Review 2018
27/03/2018
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Executive Overview Sessions Open to public Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Time: 9:00AM – 3:00PM Venue: HBKU Research Complex Multipurpose Room To view full agenda, please click here . To RSVP, ...
News
UNDP partners with QCRI to use AI for social good
11/02/2019
Qatar forum on leveraging AI to solve humanitarian problems fills to capacity.
Renowned computing expert C. Mohan to bust blockchain myths in Qatar talk
22/01/2019
Well-known inventor of database recovery algorithms to deliver keynote at QCRI's first blockchain workshop.
QCRI to offer kids’ computing activities at this year’s Darb Al Saai
03/12/2018
Tech fun and robotics computing activities will be available to children attending the annual family celebration from December 12 to 20.
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