The Makridakis Open Forecasting Center at the University of Nicosia’s Institute for the Future (IFF) announces the successful conclusion of both the M6 Financial Forecasting Competition and the "Future of Forecasting and the M6 Competition" Conference.
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Prof. Spyros Makridakis, Founder of the Makridakis Open Forecasting Center (MOFC), held an interview at PROSOPIKOTHTES TV Show at Capital TV Cyprus.
The latest iteration of the M Competitions featured 100,000 submissions from over 100 countries, making it one of the largest forecasting competitions of all time. Tune in live via the MOFC website, to attend related talks by Google, Walmart and Kaggle executives, and for the Presentation of the Cash Prizes
The premier academic forecasting competition currently features over 38,000 registered participants competing for $100,000 in prizes. Google, Walmart, Kaggle, Uber, IIF, MOFC, INSEAD and NTUA are providing financial or academic support.
The highly competitive Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning Research Awards recognised UNIC’s very own Professor Spyros Makridakis for his exemplary work in the field and for his upcoming research project in collaboration with Amazon, honouring in this way one of the foundational figures of Forecasting.
The premier academic forecasting competition returns in service of advancing the theory and practice of Forecasting, with thousands of individuals and teams anticipated to be competing for $100,000 in prizes
The event featured a talk by Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, world-renowned scholar, mathematical researcher and philosophical essayist.
The University of Nicosia (UNIC) is launching the Makridakis Open Forecasting Center (MOFC), as an integral part of the University’s Institute For the Future (IFF) and in service of the Institute’s primary mission to explore how technological progress is causing rapidly accelerating societal change.
Πέραν των 100 χιλιάδων επισκέψεων η δημοσίευση στο PLOS ONE σχετικά με την ανεπάρκεια της ακρίβειας της Πρόβλεψης (Forecasting) της Νοημοσύνης των Μηχανών (ΝΜ)
More specifically, IFF | UNIC was invited to become a Hyperledger Associate Member in recognition of its ongoing work and plans for future contribution to the Hyperledger community, joining like-minded notable blockchain-oriented organisations and big industry players like IBM, Intel and SAP.
Decentralized 2019 is back between 30 October and 1 November, featuring an impressive line-up of speakers and pre-conference workshops
Distinguished speakers from high-tech giants and software firms, as well as top-tier universities, assembled in NYC for a dissection of UNIC’s global M4 Forecasting Competition
Σύμφωνα με την τελευταία δημοσίευση στο PLOS ONE των Μακριδάκη, Σπηλιώτη και Ασημακόπουλου, η οποία έχει σημειώσει ρεκόρ επισκεψιμότητας με πέραν των 54 χιλ.
The M4 (Makridakis 4) is the latest edition of the premier academic forecasting competition in the world, which recently came to a close, featuring a total of 248 individuals and teams from 48 countries across the globe. The revolutionary M-Competitions, which Professor Spyros Makridakis (whom the M-Competitions are also named after) launched four decades ago, have substantially contributed to improving forecasting accuracy and informing practitioners on the most appropriate forecasting method to use for their specific needs.
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The M4 time series competition kicked off earlier this month and already features teams from 37 countries across the globe, with many participants hailing from the USA, India, the UK and Brazil. This latest [...]
Co-organised by the University of Nicosia and the National Technical University of Athens Technology giant, UBER, becomes the latest organisation to join the growing international support for the exciting M4 Forecasting Competition, organised by [...]
Co-organised by the University of Nicosia and the National Technical University of Athens Professor Spyros Makridakis, a pioneer in the field and, for many, the father of forecasting, is now launching his fourth competition: [...]
