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7 May: Lecture by Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio on the topic of AI
Title of the lecture: "Obtaining Safety Guarantees to avoid AI Catastrophic Risks". Occasion: 50th anniversary of computer science teaching at the University of Vienna.
26.04.2024 | [more]
Michael Wagner elected as member of the Academia Europaea
Academia Europaea is a European, non-governmental association whose objective is the advancement and promotion of scholarly work in Europe. It encompasses both the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences.
24.04.2024 | [more]
HFSP grant for consortium led by Kristin Tessmar-Raible
Within the collaborative project, Kristin will lead a team aiming to unravel the influence of temporally ordered biological processes on the adaptability and survival of organisms near the chemical and physical limits of life.
24.04.2024 | [more]
It's time to get to know AI
The breakneck speed at which artificial intelligence is developing makes it difficult to predict where it is heading. Our researchers say: Instead of getting ever bigger and faster, we should now take the time to really...
23.04.2024 | [more]
Six new ERC Advanced Grants
The university congratulates its researchers. 135 ERC grants have already been awarded to researchers of the University of Vienna since 2007.
19.04.2024 | [more]
World War II refugees: Untold stories of flight
Literary scholar Paula Wojcik and her team collect and analyse little-known stories of flight from the Nazi era. How their research uncovers various escape routes, coping strategies and the many obstacles in beginning a new life.
15.04.2024 | [more]
Stellar winds of three sun-like stars detected for the first time
An international research team led by a researcher from the University of Vienna has for the first time directly detected stellar winds from three Sun-like stars by recording the X-ray emission from their astrospheres.
12.04.2024 | [more]
Worms exhibit individual behaviors
A new study by Kristin Tessmar-Raible from Max Perutz Labs together with Sören Häfker and team shows: Just like animals and humans, worms exhibit individual – but reproducible – behaviors.
12.04.2024 | [more]