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Boeing Partners with QCRI for fourth annual Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium
This year’s MLDAS will focus on the growing use of deep learning and its potential impacts on the human condition.
QCRI’s Jalees Reader app launched in more languages
French and German interfaces added for free app which allows users to upload books and read them offline.
IBM Watson scientist visits Qatar to present platform that “thinks like a human”
Watson’s chief data scientist Romeo Kienzler conducts workshop on question-answering platform at new QCRI event. (Photo: IBM Watson)
QCRI’s BrailleEasy app launched on iOS store.
Custom one-handed Braille keyboard can be used by both Arabic and English-speaking users, is free and comes with tutorial.
QCRI researcher jointly develops new film-making technique Technology can recreate films and portraits in the style of different artists’ paintings.
QCRI launches RHEEM big data app Application can draw insights from big data across many software platforms.
QCRI’s Rayyan app a hit with foreign users
Data analytics system that automates systematic reviews attracts 1,000 users from 50 countries.
World Humanitarian Summit invites QCRI to showcase research
QCRI’s AIDR technology to feature at inaugural summit’s Innovation Marketplace.
QCRI in deal with UK’s Speechmatics to take Arabic transcription technology global
Cambridge-based company will use a QCRI product known as QATS to transcribe Arabic broadcasts and audio files into text and subtitles.
In the Media
Algorithm can create a bridge between Clinton and Trump supporters
20/02/2017
A growing number of people have expressed their concern about high levels of polarization in society. For instance, the World Economic Forum's report on global risks lists the increasing societal ...
The hero big data needs? Data Civilizer helps scientists conquer the clutter
29/01/2017
Big data is a big deal. With these huge data sets, analysts can gain unprecedented insight into the hidden patterns of fields like physics, healthcare, and finance. Collecting and analyzing this data...
22/01/2017
The age of big data has seen a host of new techniques for analyzing large data sets. But before any of those techniques can be applied, the target data has to be aggregated, organized, and cleaned up...
Events
2017
QCRI-MIT CSAIL Annual Research Project Review 2017
27/03/2017
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The QCRI – MIT CSAIL Annual Research Project Review is open to the public on Monday, March 27, 2017, at the HBKU Research Complex Multipurpose Room. The annual meeting is a highlight of a ...
Past Events
(MLDAS 2017) Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium
13/03/2017
- 14/03/2017
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Qatar National Convention Centre
Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium - MLDAS 2017 Building on the success of the three previous events , Boeing and QCRI will hold the Fourth Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (...
03/02/2017
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Here's a great chance to learn about the latest data science-related research in multiple domains, as part of a global project. Qatar's WiDS event will be held here at the HBKU Research Complex on ...
News
QCRI summer 2017 internship applications open
11/03/2017
The Qatar Computing Research Institute, part of Hamad bin Khalifa University, has announced that applications for its summer internship program have opened. The internships are being offered to ...
Leading AI expert Patrick Winston to visit Qatar
05/03/2017
Patrick Winston, a Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is to visit Qatar to ...
Boeing Partners with QCRI for fourth annual Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (MLDAS)
09/02/2017
The Boeing Company has announced that it will once again partner with the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), part of Hamad bin Khalifa University, to host the fourth annual Machine Learning ...
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Dr. Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
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+Computing has brought disruptive innovation to our daily lives - transforming the way we interact with each other, enabling new discoveries, accelerating development of global society. At QCRI we have created a vibrant research environment that facilitates this progression and that positions Qatar as a leader in advancing research and technology.
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Dr. Abdellatif Saoudi
Managing Director
+We are building a new model for research in the region through QCRI – one that not only stimulates a vibrant research environment but more notably one that has relevance and impact locally with global appeal.
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Dr. Stephan Vogel
Research Director
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Dr. Mohamed Hefeeda
Principal Scientist
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Dr. Nan Tang
Senior Scientist
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Senior Scientist
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Senior Software Engineer
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Dr. Wei Gao
Scientist
+QCRI is a brand-new research institute committing to world-class research in my area of expertise, which offers me unprecedented opportunities to embrace exciting challenges.
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Dr. Ingmar Weber
Research Director
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Dr. Ashraf Aboulnaga
Research Director
+QCRI is an ambitious and energetic place that is on track to become a top research center worldwide. I want to be part of making that happen.
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Dr. Issa Khalil
Senior Scientist
+QCRI is a wonderful place to work in the Middle East as it both satisfies my career goals and my family needs.
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Dr. Essam Mansour
Senior Software Engineer
+I am proud to contribute to the growing effort of establishing QCRI as a world-class research institute in applied computing by developing theories and systems of high impact for both academia and industry.
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Dr. Lluis Marquez
Principal Scientist
+Coming to QCRI represents facing very exciting research challenges, which are tightly connected to real applications that can impact people interaction and access to information; Contributing to QCRI’s ambitious goals surrounded by a strong team of researchers in an international and dynamic work environment is a real privilege
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Research Highlight
QCRI's very own Majd Abbar and Dr. Abdellatif Saoudi discuss our Arabic Language Technologies work with Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser+
Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser lauds the work of QCRI in recent speech, citing the Institute’s significant contributions to preserving the Arabic language (@ 4:55) -
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