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Find out more about the WISE Summit, the speakers, topics of discussions, events that will be taking place, etc!

Artificial intelligence can create immense positives for the world and will be an incredibly powerful system that can solve the biggest problems facing societies, including addressing climate change, providing education and eradicating diseases.

Arabic language content is seriously underrepresented online. Computer science researchers in Qatar are developing tools to change that.

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) held the second event in its 'Thematic Research Highlights Series'

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) co-hosted the eighth Arab-American Frontiers of

QF’s AI project helps detect ‘disinformation’  24 May 2021 - 8:18 Preslav Nakov, a computer scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) a member of Qatar Foundation By Fazeena Saleem | The Peninsula Doha: At present the World Health Organization’s main concern is fighting the pandemic, but then its secondary concern is fighting disinformation. It has raised concern over an ‘infodemic’ - information including false or misleading information in digital and physical e...

Machine-learning project takes aim at disinformation There’s nothing new about conspiracy theories, disinformation, and untruths in politics. What is new is how quickly malicious actors can spread disinformation when the world is tightly connected across social networks and internet news sites. We can give up on the problem and rely on the platforms themselves to fact-check stories or posts and screen out disinformation—or we can build new tools to help people identify disinformation as so...