Jim Tørresen Talks and Presentations (see tutorials and pop-sci
talks further down)
Invited scientific talks/keynotes
· “Sensing
Human State with Application in Older People Care and Mental Health Treatment”,
AI4Health
Lecture Series; Université du Luxembourg, 10
March 2020
· “A
collaboration journey to Japan that started for more than 25 years ago”, Norway-Japan
Academic Network; Oslo, 26 February 2020
· “Intelligent
Robots and Systems for Foundational and Applied Healthcare Research”, Guest
lecture at Nagoya University; 28 January 2020
· “Interdisciplinary
Research Collaboration in Rhythm, Time and Motion.” Guest lecture at
Toyohashi University of Technology; 27 January 2020
· “AI
Ethics: How to achieve ethically good artificial intelligence research and
development.” Chalmers
AI Ethics seminar series; Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg,
Sweden, 7 January 2020
·
“Adaptive Robot Body and
Control for Real-World Environments”. co-presenters: Kyrre
Glette and Kai Olav Ellefsen,
JPL
Robotics Section seminar; Pasadenna, US, 28 October 2019
·
“Intelligent, Adaptive
Robots in Real-World Scenarios”, co-presenters: Kyrre
Glette and Kai Olav Ellefsen.
UBER AI
Labs Seminar; San Francisco, US, 25
October 2019
· “Introduction to Different Challenges in Ethical AI
and Possible Ways of Addressing Them” keynote at IJCNN (International Joint Conference on Neural Networks) workshop “Ethical AI Challenges”, Budapest, Hungary,19 July 2019
· “Design and Control of Robots for Real-World
Environment”, Eindhoven
University of Technology, Netherlands, invited talk
at the opening of their: The Future of Social Robotics – opening of
the Social Robotics Lab, 28 June 2019
· “Ethics and artificial intelligence in healthcare”,
at the conference Artificial
intelligence in healthcare in Bodø,
Norway, 18-19 June 2019
· “Intelligent
and Adaptive Robots in Real-World Environment”, SAINT Workshop on Self-aware
and Autonomous Systems, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China, 5-6 May 2019
· “Supporting
Older People with Robots for Independent Living “,
3rd International Workshop on Advanced Algorithms and Control Engineering (IWAACE 2019), in Sanya,
China, January 18-19, 2019
· "Making
Robots Adaptive and Preferable to Humans”, guest lecture Univ. of Hertfordshire,
UK, 7 Jan 2019
· “UiO
Visit to UFRJ – An overview of research”, guest
lecture Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, 6 Des 2018
· “Artificial Intelligence Applied for
Real-World Systems”, guest lecture Brno University of Technology,
Czech Republic, 7 October, 2018
· "Biologically
inspired computing for problem solving”, the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
seminar on Machine learning, Oslo, 22 Oct 2018
· “Developing
Robot Companions for Elderly”, 2018 China (Shenyang) World
Congress of Robotics (WCR 2018),
1 September 2018
· “Intelligent Systems for Medical and
Healthcare Applications”, Simula@OsloMet seminar
series, 23 August 2018.
· “Equipping Systems with Forecasting Capabilities”, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFGRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, 12 July, 2018
· ”Introducing Mental
Health through Adaptive Technology via Sensor Data and Machine Learning: The INTROMAT project.”, University
of Michigan, 5 June 2018.
·
“Ethical Robots and Autonomous
Systems”, Autonomy Day, OsloMet, 3 May 2018
· “Artificial
Intelligence – State-of-the-art”, Research Council of Norway, Lysaker, Oslo,
5 March 2018.
· “Intelligent
Machines – Opportunities and Challenges”, Kyushu
University, Japan, 5 October, 2017
· “Artificial
Intelligence and examples of Real-world Applications”, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, 3 October, 2017
· ”Artificial Intelligence by Nature Inspired Computing”, Agri-Robotics Summer Camp, Ås, Norway, 4 August 2017
· “Sensing and Reasoning Technology Applied
within Mental Health Treatment and Elderly Care Robot Companions”, Graz University of Technology, Austria,
30 June 2017.
· ”Robotics activity at
Robotics and Intelligent Systems Group University of Oslo”, Institute For Robotics And Mechatronics at Joanneum Research, Klagenfurt, 29 June 2017.
· “Artificial intelligence - a
human technology?” Invited talk at TEDx Oslo, May 3,
2017.
· “Artificial
Intelligence – What is it and what can it be applied to?
Thematic meeting about Artificial Intelligence, The Norwegian Society of Engineers and Technologists (NITO), Oslo, 27 April 2017
· “Making Systems Intelligent
by Biologically Inspired Computing”, Invited
talk at Brazilian Institute of Robotics (BIR), SINAI CIMATEC, Salvador, Brazil, April 6, 2017.
· “Opportunities and Challenges
with Artificial Intelligence”, Invited
talk at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
do Sul (UFGRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, April 4, 2017.
· “Introduction
to Machine Learning for Problem Solving”. Invited talk at Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Oslo,
10 January 2017
· “Making Technology Adaptive by Biologically Inspired
Computing”, Invited talk at Hong Kong University, 24 October 2016.
· “Unleashing Artificial Intelligence in the Real
World”, School of Computer Science, Invited talk at University of Manchester, UK, 5 October
2016.
· “Smartphone
Analysis of Human Behaviour for Interactive Music
Systems”, 4th Conference of the European
Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ESRII), Bergen, 22-23 September
2016
· “Artificial
Intelligence in Autonomous Systems”, Norwegian Society of Automatic Control
(NFA) Conference on Autonomy, Stavanger,
16-17 May, 2016
· “Artificial
intelligence and evolutionary algorithms analysis and solution tools”, Norwegian
Society of Automatic Control (NFA) Conference
on decision support and alarm systems, Oslo, 4 - 5 November
2015
· ”Artificial Intelligence: Can machines become as
intelligent as humans?” Invited talk at board meeting at the Norwegian Board
of Technology, Oslo, 19 June 2015
· “Robotics
in IoT”, HiPEAC Computing Systems Week, Oslo, May 2015
· “Introduction
to Artificial Intelligence”, Shell
Norway, 28 October 2014.
· “Introduction
to Run-time Evolvable and Reconfigurable Hardware”, Guest lecture in course
Advanced reconfigurable Systems (ARS, code 32437) 22 Nov 2012 at Universidad Autónoma
de Madrid, Spain.
· “Self-aware and Self-expressive Active Music Systems”.
Awareness
Summer School (AWASS 2012), 10-16th June 2012, Edinburg,
Napier University
· “Can
Run-time Reconfigurable Hardware be more Accessible?” Invited talk at 2011 International Conference on
Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA’11), July 18, 2011, Las Vegas, US.
· “Exploring Bio-Inspired Computing for Robotics and Intelligent
Systems”, Invited talk at University
of Vermont, US, April 8th, 2011.
· “Music
Technology based on Robotics and Intelligent Systems”, Invited talk at McGill
University, Canada, April 7th, 2011.
· “Making
Run-time Reconfigurable Hardware more Useful”, Invited talk at University
of Southern California (USC), LA,CA. January 28, 2011.
· “Robotics
and Intelligent Systems Research at University of Oslo”, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, January 26, 2011.
· “Robotics
at University of Oslo”. The Norwegian
Robotics Workshop, Trondheim, Norway, 30 Nov 2011.
· “Robotics and Intelligent
Systems research group (ROBIN at UiO)”, Invited talk at Cornell Computational Synthesis
Laboratory, Cornell University, August 30th, 2010.
· “A New Project to Address Run-Time Recofigurable Hardware Systems” Invited participant/speaker at Dagstuhl Seminar 10281: Dynamically Reconfigurable
Architectures, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany,
July 11 – 16, 2010.
· “Adaptable
System on Chip”, Keynote at Reconfigurable
Communication-centric Systems on Chip Conference (ReCoSoC'10). May 17-19, 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany.
·
“Evolutionary Computing Applied to Hardware and
Robotics”. Invited talk at Faculty of Information
Technology, Brno
University of Technology (BUT), Brno, Czech Republic, January 20th, 2009.
· ”Adapting Systems by
Evolving Hardware”. Invited talk in Computer Systems Colloquium (EE380),
Stanford University. January 23rd, 2008.
· Research in Robotics &Intelligent Systems Group,
Invited talk at Cornell Computational Synthesis
Laboratory, Cornell University, January 20th, 2008
· “Evolutionary
Computing and its Application to Signal and Image Classification in Hardware.” Invited
talk at Fudan University, China, September
17th, 2007.
· “A
Survey on Parts Obsolescence Challenges for the Electronics Industry”, Component Obsolescence Group International
Conference (COG’07), UK.
· “Evolvable
Hardware Supplementing the Hardware Designer”. Invited talk to First Workshop on Topics of the nEUro-IT.net Roadmap, Antwerp, 21/22 April 2006.
· “Context
Switching Reconfigurable Logic”. Dagstuhl Invited
participant/speaker at Dagstuhl Seminar 03301: Dynamically Reconfigurable
Architectures, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, July 25-25,
2003.
Tutorials
· “Ethical
Considerations in User Modeling and Personalization”, tutorial at
ACM 28th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and
Personalization (ACM UMAP 2020), July 12th-18th
2020, Genoa, Italy (Virtual conference due to the corona pandemic)
· “Addressing
Ethical Challenges within Evolutionary Computation Applications”, tutorial
at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO
2020), July 8th-12th 2020, Cancun, Mexico (Virtual conference due to the corona
pandemic)
·
Creative Prediction with Neural Networks (co-organized
with Charles P. Martin and Kyrre Glette) ALife 2018: The 2018
Conference on Artificial Life. Tokyo
·
Prediction, Interaction, and User Behaviour (co-organized
with Enrique Garcia-Ceja, Kai O Ellefsen, Charles P.
Martin), IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) July,
2018
·
A Run-Time Evolvable Hardware Tutorial, Jim Torresen, 2011
International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and
Algorithms (ERSA’11), Las Vegas, USA.
·
Evolvable Hardware (co-organised with Lukas Sekanina, Brno University of Technology). 2009 NASA /ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware
and Systems (AHS-2009),
San Francisco, July, 2009.
·
Evolvable Hardware (co-organised with Lukas Sekanina, Brno University of Technology). IEEE Congress
on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2009), Trondheim, May 2009.
·
Run-Time Reconfigurable and Adaptive Hardware. 2008 NASA /ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2008), The Netherlands, June 2008.
·
Evolvable Hardware (co-organised with Kyrre Glette, University of Oslo (Norway) and Marco Platzner and
Paul Kaufmann, University of Paderborn (Germany), 21st International
Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS’08. Dresden,
Germany, February 25-28, 2008.
· Reconfigurable
Computing. 2nd NASA /ESA Conference
on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2007). Edinburgh, August 2007.
·
Reconfigurable Computing. ECSIS Symposium on Intelligent Systems for
Defense and Security (ISDS). September
20-21, 2006, Iasi, Romania
·
Reconfigurable Computing by Reconfigurable Logic. 1st NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware
and Systems (AHS'2006). June 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.
·
An Evolvable Hardware Tutorial. In the 14th
International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
(FPL'2004), August 2004, Antwerp - Belgium.
·
Speeding Up Neural Network Computation by Parallel
Processing. Tutorial at International
Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'97), November 1997, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Popular science talks (in Norwegian)
·
“Hva vil roboter og
kunstig intelligens kunne løse for vår helse og har vi noe å frykte?". Høyres helse- og omsorgsfraksjon på
Stortinget, helseteknologiseminar i
Høyres Hus, 12. November Oslo
· Kunstig intelligens og anvendelser
innen helse og omsorg, Wolters Kluwer seminar, AI inom hälsovård,
Litteraturhuset, Oslo, 23 Oct 2018.
· Kunstig intelligens – hvem, hva og
hvor? Evry
seniorforening (norsk)/Evry Senior Association meeting,
18 October 2018
·
Hva
er kunstig intelligens? Stiftelsen Nasjonalt Medisinsk Museum seminar
med tittel "Kunstig intelligens i diagnose og behandling av sykdom.",
Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo, October 2018
·
Roboter
kommer nærmere – skal vi glede eller grue oss? Invitert foredrag på Oslo-Kvinne-og-familieforbund
seminar, Sundvolden, 14 April
2018.
·
Interview by Tore Tennøe,
Director at Norwegian Board of Technology, about Artificial Intelligence
before screening of the movie «Her» at Cinemateket,
Oslo, 2 February, 2017
·
Lærende
og tilpasningsdyktig teknologi, Akersborg
Rotaryklubb, Oslo, 9 Nov 2015
·
Kunstig
intelligens og evolusjonære algoritmer som analyse- og løsningsverktøy, Norsk Forening for Automatisering (NFA) konferanse for Beslutningsstøtte og alarmsystemer,
Oslo, 4-5 Nov 2015.
·
KUNSTIG INTELLIGENS: Kan maskiner bli like
intelligente som mennesker? Har vi noe å frykte?
· Norwegian Board of
Technology (Teknologirådet), Oslo, 19 June 2015
·
Data
fra tidligere pasienter brukt til å effektivisere justering av nivåer for
cochlea-implantat for nye pasienter. Norsk
Forening for Automatisering (NFA) konferanse for Helse
og medisinsk teknologi, Stavanger, 27-28 May, 2015
·
Kunstig
Intelligens. Oslo Bokfestival, 12-13 Sept 2014
· Artificial
Intelligence (in Norwegian), Akademisk
Vorspiel, organized by the Norwegian student society, 21 March, 2014
·
Robotikk
og Intelligente Systemer (ROBIN). Fredagsforum
Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt (FFI), 8 Mai
2009.
Others scientific talks
·
Learning FPGA Design Through Internet and
Remote Labs. FPGA-forum 2014, Trondheim.
·
New Tools and Techniques for Building
Run-time Reconfigurable Systems. FPGA-forum
2012, Trondheim.
·
Intern og delvis rekonfigurering på FPGA.
FPGA-forum 2008, Trondheim.
·
Run-Time Reconfigurable Hardware. FPGA-forum 2007, Trondheim.
·
Er “reconfigurable computing”
klar for kommersiell anvendelse? DAK/FPGA-forum 2005, Trondheim, oktober 2005.
·
Utgåtte komponenter – et problem for norsk elektronikkindustri?
Det 58. Studiemøtet Elektronikk og Data,
Sundvolden 15.-16. juni 2005.
· Reconfigurable Computing at UiO – recent activities. DAK-forum 2004, Trondheim, oktober 2004
·
Adaptiv dataprosessering i rekonfigurerbar
logikk. DAK-forum
2003, Trondheim, oktober
2003.
·
Evolusjonær
maskinvare. Det 54. Studiemøtet Elektronikk og Data, Lillehammer 14.-15. juni
2001.
Updated 25 November, 2020