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CFP Applications of Bioinspired Techniques on Social Networks (organized by @doina_net and me). Part of next @EvostarConf, to be held in Trieste 23-25 April 2025. More info: evostar.org/2025/evoapps/b… #socialnetwork #MachineLearning #optimization

Evolutionary graph theory beyond single mutation dynamics: on how network-structured populations cross fitness landscapes academic.oup.com/genetics/artic…

📢 NeurIPS 2024 is looking for AI Ethics Reviewers for submissions regarding risks and harms of the work. If you are interested, please check out buff.ly/45ygNAF and sign up at this google form buff.ly/4erkpsa #NeurIPS2024 #CallForReviewers

It was a pleasure to announce that we are hosting next year's edition of NetSci in Maastricht. Looking forward to see you in our beautiful city! @NetSciConf More details coming soon: netsci2025.github.io

New paper out on @TmlrOrg! Understanding Sparse Neural Networks from their Topology via Multipartite Graph Representations. With @CunegattiElia @farinamatteoo @doina_net openreview.net/forum?id=Egb0t… #deeplearning #MachineLearning #NeuralNetworks #ArtificialInteligence @UniTrento_DISI

🚨BREAKING: The European Parliament has just APPROVED the AI Act. What everyone should know: ➵ The AI Act follows a risk-based approach. Some AI systems are banned, such as those involving: - Cognitive behavioral manipulation of people or specific vulnerable groups; - Social scoring: classifying people based on behavior, socioeconomic status, or personal characteristics; - Biometric identification and categorization of people; - Real-time and remote biometric identification systems, such as facial recognition. ➵ Some AI systems fall in the "high-risk" category, such as those involving: - Critical infrastructures (e.g. transport) that could put the life and health of citizens at risk; - Educational or vocational training that may determine the access to education and professional course of someone’s life (e.g. scoring of exams); - Safety components of products (e.g. AI application in robot-assisted surgery); - Employment, management of workers, and access to self-employment (e.g. CV-sorting software for recruitment procedures); - Essential private and public services (e.g. credit scoring denying citizens opportunity to obtain a loan); law enforcement that may interfere with people’s fundamental rights (e.g. evaluation of the reliability of evidence); - Migration, asylum, and border control management (e.g. automated examination of visa applications); - Administration of justice and democratic processes (e.g. AI solutions to search for court rulings). ➵ High-risk AI systems will be assessed before being put on the market and also throughout their lifecycle. People will have the right to file complaints about AI systems to designated national authorities. ➵ Generative AI, like ChatGPT, will not be classified as high-risk but will have to comply with transparency requirements and EU copyright law. Some of the obligations are: - Disclosing that the content was generated by AI; - Designing the model to prevent it from generating illegal content; - Publishing summaries of copyrighted data used for training. ➵ The AI Act is expected to officially become law by May or June, and its provisions will start taking effect in stages: - 6 months later: countries will be required to ban prohibited AI systems; - 1 year later: rules for general-purpose AI systems will start applying; - 2 years later: the whole AI Act will be enforceable. ➵ Fines for non-compliance can be up to 35 million Euros or 7% of worldwide annual turnover. ➵ If you want to learn more about the AI Act, including challenges, opportunities, and practical insights, join my live session with @BertuzLuca, @JcMalgieri & @RistoUuk on April 4th (register using the link below).

1/n: There are some academic papers that are so brilliantly and so accessibly written and so universal in scope that they transcend disciplines and stand as timeless testaments to both great thinking and great writing. Here's a short personal selection:

With @benoitdecourson and @b_azoulay from @gallicagram we are releasing on @huggingface what is probably the largest open corpus in French: 85 billon words in the public domain. huggingface.co/datasets/PleIA… huggingface.co/datasets/PleIA…

#NERCCS2024 's dates have been announced: Full paper deadline: Jan. 15, 2024 Abstract deadline: Mar. 1, 2024 Conference: Mar. 20-22, 2024 Mark your calendar! Please share this widely. nerccs2024.github.io @CompSysSoc @YR_CSS @css_usne

We are one month away from the submission deadline to #CompleNet24. Send your contributions here: openreview.net/group?id=COMPL…

Hey, I see a lot of students trying to use ChatGPT to rephrase technical writing when English is not their first language. Almost always, this produces flowery and confusing language that messes up some of the technical concepts. Just a PSA: Grammarly is still way better for this

Our review+perspective paper on "Current and future directions in network biology" is online (arxiv.org/abs/2309.08478). This has been a Herculean effort by many co-authors, thank you all! Special thanks to @marinkazitnik, @_michellemli, @aydin_wells, and all section coordinators.

@mmitchell_ai Ptolemy's Almagest (150 AD), followed by al Ṣūfī's Book of pictures of the (fixed) stars (964), followed by 16th-century Aztec codices.

I believe my oldest citation in a published paper is Pāṇini (~6th century BCE). What's yours?

Wow! A federal AI use case database actually exists hhs.gov/about/agencies…

Interested in learning about network science? There's no better opportunity than @CNWWs! We'll be live & in-person this winter in beautiful Quebec. And the best news??? We're waiving fees for all participants. Just pay travel to Canada. My dms are open if you have questions.

Just hired a 21yo for their first job. What basic professional advice do they need? Here's what I tell all my new staff, but perhaps you can add. I'll start small. 1/ Use an online calendar. Have a foolproof system of reminders, so you never forget a deadline or obligation.

How do people see patters in point clouds? (Stars and otherwise.) @doina_net presents cool work #netsci2023

I made this slide and am sharing it so now you don't have to.

We're conducting a CV donation campaign to create datasets for our algorithmic studies in the Horizon Europe project @HorizonFINDHR focusing on discrimination in algorithmic hiring. Consider donating your CV and help us spread the word. RTs appreciated! findhr.eu/datadonation

npj Complexity, a new home for research on complex systems at the interface of multiple fields (including behavioural models, social networks, game theory), is now open for submissions! Led by @LHDnets. nature.com/npjcomplex/