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