Research and teaching chairs in Artificial Intelligence: Congratulations to the 3 selected Sorbonne University projects!

Matthieu Cord (LIP6), Laurence Devillers (LIMSI-CNRS) and Patrick Gallinari (LIP6) have been recently selected by ANR to carry out research projects associated with teaching activities within the AI for Humanity programme.

Indeed, at the end of the "AI for Humanity" day held in Paris on 29 March 2018, during which the President of the French Republic delivered a speech on artificial intelligence (AI), a national programme for AI was initiated with a major research component.

A multi-year programme of 40 Chairs in Artificial Intelligence (IA Chairs) is one of the measures under this research component, which was presented on 28 November 2018 by the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation and the Secretary of State for Digital Technology.

The national program for AI aims to ensure that the best talents choose to settle permanently in France and can, in turn, train future generations of AI researchers and professionals in jobs that remain largely to be imagined.

The call for "Research and Teaching chairs in artificial intelligence (AI Chairs)" aims precisely to offer French and foreign researchers, with the support of host institutions, substantial resources to build a team and carry out an ambitious project whose visible impact is expected.