{"title": "Informatik Kolloquium: Artificial Touch: the Next Frontier for AI", "start": "2026-11-12T17:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "BIM, Binzmühlestrasse 11, 8050 Zürich, Seminarraum 4-033", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "A public computer science talk in the colloquium series of the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich, held in English and requiring no registration. Behind the talk is Prof. Dr. Aviv Tamar of the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, hosted by Prof. Dr. Giorgia Ramponi. Under the title \"Artificial Touch: the Next Frontier for AI\", it addresses artificial touch, for example in the context of medical palpation such as breast cancer detection, using learning information states, modularly designed soft objects, and the largest tactile dataset to date of over 800 hours. 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The Zurich University of the Arts is named as the organiser behind the talk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/ki-als-seelentroster-chancen-und-risiken-synthetischer-bezie-123160/", "official_url": "https://www.dizh.uzh.ch/event/ki-als-seelentroester-chancen-und-risiken-synthetischer-beziehungen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cc50d83020033f0a4c15247e88cdf843eb894c069930fb2f6b8a03ce63b78cef-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Legal Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence", "start": "2026-11-09T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T16:45:00+01:00", "place": "Collegium Helveticum, Schmelzbergstrasse 25, 8006 Zürich", "address": "Schmelzbergstrasse 25, 8006 Zürich", "price": "free of charge", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai", "society/law"], "description": "A public symposium on where human and machine reasoning in law converge and diverge. It is convened by Eyal Zamir and Yoan Hermstrüwer at the Collegium Helveticum. Researchers from several countries present theoretical, experimental and field studies on how large language models are already used to research the law, draft documents, predict decisions and assist adjudication. The day ends with a panel discussion on artificial intelligence and the law.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/legal-reasoning-and-artificial-intelligence-78223/", "official_url": "https://collegium.ethz.ch/events/fellow-year-2026-2027/legal-reasoning-and-artificial-intelligence", "image": ""}, {"title": "HWZ Empowers | Future Skills for the AI Era", "start": "2026-11-12T17:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich", "address": "Lagerstrasse 5, 8021 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "HWZ Empowers | Future Skills for the AI Era is an event with a keynote and three interactive breakout sessions on the skills that matter in a working world shaped by AI. The annual event series is run by the Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich, and the evening is hosted by Suzan Nacakgedigi. 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