DesCartes Week 2022
From October 10 to October 15 2022, more than 100 participants (of which 56 students) prepared or attended classes, workshops, debates, conferences, presentations, celebrations and informal events.
Find below a detailed recap of these intense 6 days!
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The DesCartes team, together with Her Excellency Mrs the Ambassor of France to Singapore Minh-Di Tang, DesCartes partners and other prestigious guests.
MONDAY 10 October 2022
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Welcome Address by Dominique Baillargeat
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Welcome Address by Paco Chinesta
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High level discussions on why AI is a research problem, followed by 3 concrete examples (specifically: planning, learning, and multi agent systems) to motivate this perspective
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A brief review of current status of deep learning and a geometric explanation of neural network learning
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Throughout this activity, students explored some surprising limits of learning methodologies, and considered ways to alleviate them.
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A group of 20 persons spent the night in a manor. In the morning, a dead body was found the following day in the cellar… Students helped the police to discover who did it, using the power of provenance management and probabilistic databases.
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Welcome Cocktail at Potato Head Singapore (slide for more photos)
TUESDAY 11 October 2022
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Students looked at the way programmers seem to think about ethics when designing “moral machines” and then considered some of the challenges of automating morality.
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For this interactive arts & craft exercise, participants explored the socio politics of facial detection and recognition technologies, and the emerging fashion designs that may undermine them.
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Divided into groups, students mobilized their creativity in order to produce the best artwork… With a little help from an outside source!
WEDNESDAY 12 October 2022
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Teams were invited to address a problem with given context and constraints (functionalities, technologies), but with sufficient flexibility in the methodology to promote originality and innovation.
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THURSDAY 13 October 2022
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Presentations: WP1
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Presentations: WP3
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Presentations: WP4
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Presentations: WP7
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Presentations: WP6
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Presentations: WP5
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Presentations: WP8
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Presentations: WP2
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Presentations: WPX
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FRIDAY 14 October 2022
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Presentation: WP9 demonstrators & builders
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Presentation: WP9 demonstrators & builders
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Presentation: WP9 demonstrators & builders
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SATURDAY 15 October 2022
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CREATE is an international collaboratory housing research centres set up by top universities. At CREATE, researchers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds work closely together to perform cutting-edge research in strategic areas of interest, for translation into practical applications leading to positive economic and societal outcomes for Singapore. The interdisciplinary research centres at CREATE focus on four areas of interdisciplinary thematic areas of research, namely human systems, energy systems, environmental systems and urban systems. More information on the CREATE programme can be obtained from www.create.edu.sg.
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