Media
SIGGEN Invited Webinar "A Short History of Data-Driven Dialogue Systems in 5 Acts" (2021)
Selected Media contributions/ coverage
BBC radio 4 panel on "Can chatbots solve the loneliness problem?" (2022)
The Times ``Coders make algorithm to fight online gender abuse" (2022)
BBC Future ``Why your voice assistant might be sexist"
Invited EPSRC "Designing conversational assistants to reduce gender bias" (2022)
CNBC 2022 AI forecast with Neil Lawrence, Gary Marcus, Catherine Breslin and myself (2022)
Inspiring 50 UK (2021)
Forbes 2021 report covering my work on anthropomorphised AI (2021)
Piece in the New Statesman covering mine and Amanda's research on Verbal abuse towards female-gendered artificial intelligence platforms (2021)
Research featured in the The State of AI Ethics Report by Montreal AI Ethics Institute (2021)
Allen Institute for AI NLP Highlights Podcast #108 On Data-to-text generation (2020)
Interview for MIT Technology Review on Safety for Conversational AI (2020)
Interview with VentureBeat on Metrics for ConvAI (2020)
BBC Scotland radio (2020) from around 1h24m
The Herald (2020) on my research on Gender and Abuse in Conversational AI
BBC News Article (2020) on "Another AI Winter?!"
STEMettes (2020)
Video from the Amazon Alexa Challenge (2019)
30 AI people in Europe to follow on Twitter (2019)
Top 30 people in AI: UK Edition by Re-Work (2019) - featuring as #5
Women in Data by Data Driven Innovation (2016)
Telegraph article (2019) on AI has a Gender Problem?
NESTA 12 Women in AI (2019)
One to watch 2019 by FutureScot News.
BBC Documentary (2018) The Joy of AI
WDR (2018): Sprich mit mir! Sprachassistenten
Medium Post on Inclusive Conversational AI: The Case of female Voice Assistants
Edinburgh Science Festival (2021)
Talk at CogX, London (2019)
My inaugural lecture as a professor at Heriot-Watt University (2018)
Amazon Alexa Challenge 2016-2018
Keynote at SwissText (2017)
SpeechCity (2014)
Your intelligent conversational travel companion. Also see speechcity.wordpress.com
Invited Talk @ICSIBerkeley (2013)
CLASSiC POMDP-based CAMInfo System (2010)
Within the CLASSiC project we developed the CamInfo tourist information system. The following video demonstrates how believe states are updated according to new incoming ASR results.
Future Land Use Change for the Koper Region (2010)
Within the EU FP7 PLUREL project we have developed data-driven Agent-Based Models to estimate impacts of future land use scenarios. The video shows one possible future scenario (in particular the IPCC A1 scenario) for the peri-urban region of Koper, Slovenia.
For more further details please see: Dave Murray-Rust, Verena Rieser, Derek T. Robinson, Vesna Milicic and Mark Rounsevell. Simulating land use dynamics for future scenarios and human well-being. Environmental Modelling & Software (in press).
Multimodal Information Presentation (2009)
While hosting Alex Gruenstein as a distinguished SICSA visiting fellow in 2009, we have created a multimodal online Information Presentation system for recommending restaurants, combing Natural Language Generation techniques developed within the CLASSiC project with the multimodal online WAMI toolkit. In the following example, we have created a speech-enabled interface to TheList website.
"Hermine" -- the talking washing machine (2003)
For my Master thesis at the University of Regensburg (2003) I designed and implemented a spoken user interface to a washing machine (in collaboration with BOSCH/Siemens/Hausgeräte and SpeechExperts). Read here how Hermine set CeBit 2003 in a spin. International news cover, including Financial Times, The New York Times, Focus and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Hermine even gets a mention on Wikipedia
