Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research

Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale
Named afterAngelo Dalle Molle
Formation1988
Typepublic research institute
Purposeartificial intelligence research
Coordinates46°00′43″N 8°57′40″E / 46.012°N 8.961°E / 46.012; 8.961
Director
Andrea Emilio Rizzoli[1]
AffiliationsUniversità della Svizzera italiana
SUPSI
Websitewww.idsia.ch
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The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Italian: Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, IDSIA) is a research institution based in Lugano, in Canton Ticino in southern Switzerland. It was founded in 1988 by Angelo Dalle Molle through the private Fondation Dalle Molle. In 2000 it became a public research institute, affiliated with the Università della Svizzera italiana and SUPSI in Ticino, Switzerland. In 1997 it was listed among the top ten artificial intelligence laboratories, and among the top four in the field of biologically-inspired AI.[2]

In 2007 a robotics lab with focus on intelligent and learning robots, especially in the fields of swarm and humanoid robotics, was established.[3]

Between 2009 and 2012, artificial neural networks developed at the institute won eight international competitions in pattern recognition and machine learning.[4]

IDSIA is one of four Swiss research organisations founded by the Dalle Molle foundation, of which three are in the field of artificial intelligence.[5]

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  2. ^ X-Lab Survey, Business Week Magazine, 1997
  3. ^ Robotics Lab. IDSIA Robotics Lab. Accessed March 2016.
  4. ^ Amara D. Angelica (28 November 2012). How bio-inspired deep learning keeps winning competitions: An interview with Dr. Juergen Schmidhuber on the future of neural networks Archived 2018-08-31 at the Wayback Machine. Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence newsletter. Accessed March 2016.
  5. ^ "Fondation Dalle Molle - The Institutes". www.dallemolle.ch. Retrieved 2020-12-19.