8th Data for Policy conference news round-up bit.ly/DfP2024_roundup - we are only just coming down from the high of last week! Thank you to all @analogaldo Jeff Prendki Chris Holmes Russell Wald Theo Blackwell Gianluca Misuraca Stefaan G. Verhulst Prof Gina Neff YARIME Masaru Elena Simperl Barbara Ubaldi

Our sister project, PROBabLE Futures, is seeking a Research Associate to work at University of Glasgow with a background in AI, fairness and explanations. Apply at jobs.ac.uk/job/DIT105/res… deadline 6 August 2024

🚀The #SEMIC Team is proud to announce that, after several working groups, two application profiles have been updated! 1⃣ GeoDCAT-AP 3.0.0: 👉joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/sem… 2⃣ DCAT-AP for HVD 3.0.0: 👉joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/sem… Start exploring them now! #DCAT_AP #GeoDCAT_AP

This brings the first six months of the #datacentric #ai programme to a fabulous conclusion. My thanks to all colleagues at @odihq for the tireless work that went into this.

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Join our upcoming Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowship Info Session with Innovation@King's to find out how to make a successful application to their 12-month accelerator 👇 🗓Tues 13 Aug ⏰ 15:30 - 16:30 💻 Online 🔓 Open to King's College London staff & students eventbrite.com/e/royal-academ… 🔗

Petition to stop calling longer meetings in another building of the same workplace an "away day".

Society faces an urgent and complex AI data scraping challenge. Left unsolved, it could threaten responsible AI innovation. You can listen to Lee Tiedrich and Elena Simperl discussing the issue at our recent webinar. Catch up now #data #AI hubs.li/Q02HDDTz0

We’re delighted to announce that we’ll be joined by Prof Gina Neff for our next webinar exploring data-centric AI. She’ll be in conversation with our Director of Research Elena Simperl on Wednesday 4 September 16:00-17:00 BST. Get your free tickets now! #AI #data hubs.li/Q02KN2Jc0

I’ll be presenting our paper “ChartCheck: Explainable Fact-Checking over Real-World Chart Images” at the poster session on 📆 Monday 12:45pm. 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2311.07453 #acl2024 ACL 2025

Very much looking forward to resume the webinars after a short summer break! We have a few really exciting topics and speakers coming up, starting with the fantastic Prof Gina Neff. Join us if you want to learn more about the critical link between #data and #ai!

.HCOMP 2024 #HCOMP2024 announced two amazing keynote speakers (w/ talk title): 💡Vivek Seshadri (Karya, Karya) "Do you know where your training data came from?" 💡Jahna Otterbacher (Jahna Otterbacher, Open University of Cyprus) "Diversity, Non-discrimination, and Fairness in AI:

This has been so much fun. Writing a miniature podcast musical with Lucy Bell based on Dr Johanna Walker's fascinating research, starring the wonderful vocal talents of Joanne Rogers and Sam Otto. Coming soon!

The data used to train AI is often spoken about as if it’s a static, singular blob. But it’s not. Nor is it the only important type of data needed to build/use/govern AI systems. I'm working openly with Elena Simperl on a taxonomy of data for AI here: docs.google.com/document/d/19t…

Call for contributions: Harmonising Generative AI and SW Technologies #ISWC2024 Aim: kickstart a community interested in generative AI and SW, and collaborate on emerging topics and challenges Paul Groth Elena Simperl Albert Meroño Jacopo de Berardinis

Join us on 8 October 16:00-17:00 BST as we continue to explore data-centric AI. Denny Vrandečić and Elena Simperl will discuss #LargeLanguageModels and #KnowledgeGraphs and how we can harness the novel capabilities of these complementing technologies #AI hubs.li/Q02PshFy0

We've been selected by Devon County Council to provide an AI awareness course to business owners in #Devon, #Plymouth, #Somerset, or #Torbay! Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of AI and its potential applications to your business. Sign up ⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-hel…