Synthetic data and Medical AI – where do we stand?
Jarosław Greser writes a guest blog-post on the legal possibilities and limitations of using synthetic data in the medical sector. Introduction The concept of synthetic data is of increasing interest to researchers and practitioners.
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The paper “Enhancing AI fairness through impact assessment in the European Union: a legal and computer science perspective” by Alessandra Calvi and Dimitris Kotzinos obtains a Best Paper Award at FAccT 2023
On 12 June 2023, EUTOPIA PhD co-tutelle fellow and LSTS researcher Alessandra Calvi (d.pia.lab, LSTS, VUB; lab. ETIS UMR 8051, CYU) presented a paper entitled “Enhancing AI fairness through impact assessment in the European Union: a legal and computer science perspective” co-authored with Prof.
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VUB student Seliha Buelens won the Student Video Competition "A FLASH OF PRIVACY"
Seliha Buelens is the winner of IAPP’s Westin Scholar Award for VUB for the academic year 2022-23.
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Prof. Mireille Hildebrandt delivers keynote at international MBR conference (8 June 2023)
On 8 June 2023, Mireille Hildebrandt will deliver a keynote at the Ninth International MBR Conference in Rome (7-9 June, Sapienza University) on Model-Based Reasoning, Abductive Cognition, Creativity (Inferences & Models in Science, Logic, Language, and Technology). The topic of the...
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Human Agency, Digital Society and Data-Intensive Surveillance colloquim at IEA Paris - May 22 - 23
Lander Govaerts, Lucas Melgaço, and Lior Volinz will be at the IEA Paris May 22 - 23 and present at the ' Human Agency, Digital Society and Data-Intensive Surveillance ' colloquim co-organised by Anders Albrechtslund (Aarhus University), Rosamunde Van Br...
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Student Video Competition "A Flash of Privacy"
Are you passionate about privacy and data protection? Do you wish to receive the Westin Scholar Award 2023 for VUB?
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Dr. Gianmarco Gori publishes on “Legal Protection Debt in ML training datasets”
LSTS postdoctoral researcher Gori has published on the practices of ML dataset creation, curation and dissemination. The report emphasises how such practices play a crucial role for determining the level of legal protection enjoyed by the legal subjects located downstream ML-pipelines.
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The paper by Simone Casiraghi titled “Anything new under the sun? Insights from a history of institutionalized AI ethics” is published on the journal Ethics and Information Technology
The paper by Simone Casiraghi titled “Anything new under the sun? Insights from a history of institutionalized AI ethics” was published on the journal Ethics and Information Technology.
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Rosamunde Van Brakel has been appointed visiting professor at University of Essex, UK
Rosamunde Van Brakel has been appointed as visiting professor at the Centre for Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK for a month and will be visiting from 24 April 2023 till 19 May 2023. During her time there she will give a seminar on harms of algorithmic policing.
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Prof. Spiros Simitis, ‘father of data protection’, passes away
Some words for his unique contribution to the EU data protection acquis - B y Professor Vagelis Papakonstantinou A few days ago, on 18 March 2023, Prof. Spiros Simitis passed away. Prof. Simitis was the ‘father of data protection’ and, also, my Doktorvater.
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Closing symposium ‘Governing Artificial Intelligence Designing Legal and Regulatory Responses’ for the PROTECT MSCA ITN and call for abstracts (deadline April 7, 2023)
The PROTECT MSCA ITN is coming to an end and its closing symposium, titled ‘Governing Artificial Intelligence Designing Legal and Regulatory Responses’ , will take place on May 23 in Brussels.
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