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Whether in logistics, science or air conditioning in the home - the possibility of artificial cooling has a fundamental influence on the world we live in. Yet this "artificial cryosphere" and its consequences, for example for climate change, have hardly been researched to date. The ERC project "CultCryo" aims to change that. It is investigating how the infrastructure of artificial cooling on the...

To further foster inclusive AI research, Prof. Chris Biemann, from the House of Computing and Data Science (HCDS), Universität Hamburg, Germany, in collaboration with Prof. Adem Chanie Ali from the Department of Journalism and Communications at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, has been awarded a $60k grant from the Google Award for Inclusion Research Program for a project titled "AI-driven...

Dr. Seid Muhie Yimam, from the House of Computing and Data Science, has secured the Google exploreCSR  grant for his project "Empowering Women in AI and NLP: Advancing Opportunities in Ethiopian Universities."

The initiative will provide specialized training in programming for AI, NLP, and Data Science to female bachelor and master students from selected Ethiopian universities. Collaborating with...

The two-day event "Digital Total" is organized and conducted by the House of Computing & Data Science (HCDS) of the Universität Hamburg, in collaboration with partners from the scientific platform PIER PLUS and the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.

Day 1 - Computing & Data Science in the Metropolitan Region

The goal of the first day,  which is co-organized by CDCS, is to showcase and...

UHH/Engels

Having texts written by artificial intelligence is practical! However, AI also likes to let its creative horses run wild from time to time. In this respect, the question arises as to how far we can rely on these systems. Are they a reliable homework supplier? How exactly do these language models actually work? And why are they so smart? Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann will explain this and...

Stable Diffusion 2.1 Demo

The ongoing development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting society and presents a variety of opportunities and challenges. The University plays a central role in communicating and engaging the public on AI technologies.

ChatGPT is an advanced AI model based on OpenAI's GPT-3.5 architecture that offers a wide range of applications in natural...

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Katrin Schöning-Stierand and Fereidoun Rashidi as a research associate

Since June 1, 2023, Dr. Katrin Schöning-Stierand works as a research assistant at HCDS.

Katrin Schöning-Stierand studied medicine and bioinformatics. During her doctorate, she dealt with the automatic generation of two-dimensional representations...

ZEVEDI https://zevedi.de/en/digitalgespraech

Powerful language models have become available to the broad world public, making the success of computational linguistics evident: Computer architectures have been developed there that are capable of processing intuitive human language. The behaviour shown by these systems is hardly comprehensible in detail, but the results they deliver are all the...

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Martin Semmann as Managing Director and Arunima Sharma as a research associate!

Since 15.05.2023, Dr. Martin Semmann acts as Managing Director at HCDS. He brings many years of experience in digital transformation, but also in the research management and management of complex cooperative projects.

Martin Semmann holds two...