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AI Symposium

Join the BIFOLD AI-Symposium and learn about cutting edge AI research in Germany. The public event is part of the annual All Hands Meeting (AHM 2023) of Germany's six centers of excellence for artificial intelligence. The AI-Symposium will explore the impact of AI research on science, society, politics, and economy in Germany. All interested parties are cordially invited.

Summer School 2023

The second BIFOLD Weizenbaum summer school focuses on the complex relationship between Artificial Intelligence and sustainability. The program will comprise keynotes, lectures, and practical sessions and is jointly organized by the BIFOLD Graduate School and the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society - the German Internet Institute.

8 RESEARCHERS REPRESENTED BIFOLD AT SIGMOD 2023

Review SIGMOD 2023: Eight members of the BIFOLD team took the chance to showcase their recent work at SIGMOD 2023 in Seattle through a diverse array of presentations, including research papers, workshop papers, and a demo paper – all of them underscoring the institute's commitment to cutting-edge research in the field of data management.

Gazing into the Black Box AI

Experts from Fraunhofer HHI and BIFOLD showcased an AI-assisted image evaluation technique at the BMBF Open Day. The demonstration gave an example of how Artificial Intelligence arrives at its decisions and sparked a dialogue on Explainable AI between professionals and attendees. Thanks to everyone who joined us in Berlin.

Adversarial Papers: New attack fools AI-supported text analysis

Security researchers have found significant vulnerabilities in learning algorithms used for text analysis: With the help of a novel attack, they were able to show that topic recognition algorithms can be fooled by even small changes in words, sentences and references.

Simplifying satellite data archives

ESA's Precursor Digital Assistant simplifies the usage of satellite data archives. BIFOLD research group led by Prof. Dr. Begüm Demir develops three of four search engines in the assistant. The new assistant supports the Destination Earth (DestinE) initiative of the European Union.

Do computers and humans "see" alike?

The field of computer vision has long since left the realm of research and is now used in countless daily applications, such as object recognition and measuring geometric structures of objects. One question that is not or only rarely asked is: To what extent do computer vision systems see the world in the same way that humans do?

Figure 1 – T-SNE Visualization of the Sphaera table pages, represented as histograms by the bigram network. The two highlighted pages are numerically identical.

The Shared Scientific Identity of Europe

The project Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe is one of the leading Digital Humanities projects, exploring a large corpus of more than 350 book editions about geocentric cosmology and astronomy from the early days of printing between the 15th and the 17th centuries (Sphaera Corpus) for about 76.000 pages of material.

Klaus Robert Mueller machine learning IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing

September 19, 2023

33rd IEEE MLSP Workshop in Rome

Between September 17th and 20th, the 33rd annual "IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing" (MLSP) takes place in Rome. Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller, the director of BIFOLD, shared his expertise in machine learning through a keynote speech and panel discussions.

September 06, 2023

First Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference

From August 29th to 30th the "Neuroscience of the Everyday World" conference convened neuroscientists, researchers and experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities of continuous, multimodal brain measurements in naturalistic environments. The conference was organized, among others, by BIFOLD Research grouplead Dr. Alexander von Lühmann.

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EVENTS

September 22, 2023

Science of Intelligence Fair 2023

Visit the very first conference and exhibition of the Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence (SCIoI) in Berlin. This conference is a unique opportunity for attendees to learn from leading experts, exchange ideas, and engage in live demonstrations through several exhibits straight from the ScioI-labs. Registration ends September 13, 2023.

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Our Mission

BIFOLD conducts groundbreaking foundational research in Big Data Management (DM) and Machine Learning (ML), as well as its intersection, to educate the talents of the future and to create high-impact knowledge.

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OPPORTUNITIES

BIFOLD welcomes job applications from interested parties year-round.

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PUBLICATIONS

Hassan El Hajj, Prof. Dr. Matteo Valleriani

Prompt me a Dataset: An investigation of text-image prompting for historical image dataset creation using foundation models

September 04 , 2023

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.01674.pdf

Prof. Dr. Konrad Rieck, Alexander Warnecke

Lessons Learned on Machine Learning for Computer Security

September 01 , 2023

https://doi.org/10.1109/MSEC.2023.3287207

Prof. Dr. Matthias Böhm

Saga: A Scalable Framework for Optimizing Data Cleaning Pipelines for Machine Learning Applications