The European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) (formerly European Co-ordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)) is the representative body for the

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

community. EurAI was established in 1982. Founding president of EurAI was

Wolfgang Bibel Leonhard Wolfgang Bibel (born on 28 October 1938 in Nuremberg) is a German computer scientist, mathematician and Professor emeritus at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He was one of the founders of the re ...

. The aim of EurAI is to promote the study,

research Research is " creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness ...

and application of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe.

Activities

Every even-numbered year, EurAI, jointly with one of the member associations of EurAI, holds the

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence The biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is the leading conference in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Europe, and is commonly listed together with IJCAI and AAAI as one of the three major general AI conferences worl ...

(ECAI). The conference has become the leading conference for this field in Europe. The Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award sponsored by EurAI has been awarded since 1998.

Fellowship

According to the association, EurAI Fellows program was created in order to "recognise individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe." It has been in operation since 1999.

References

External links

Official WebsiteBusiness AI PlatformMember Societies Of The EuAI
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