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BCSWomen specialist group: AI Accelerator

The AI Accelerator was launched in 2017 by BCSWomen and the BCS AI Specialist Group.

2022

Sarah Burnett’s book: The Autonomous Enterprise – Powered by AI
19 January 2022

2020

Recognition for Professor Regina Barzilay
9 October 2020

Sarah Burnett’s blog on US Open 2020, Women and AI
22 September 2020

Dr Hannah Dee’s blog on the “Introduction to Creative AI” course
5 June 2020

Gillian Arnold recommends “Designing a Feminist Chatbot” course on FutureLearn
15 May 2020

2019

BCSWomen AI Accelerator cognitive services taster session held at Greenwich University
16 October 2019

2018

BCSWomen AI Accelerator is finalist for the Equals in Tech Award
14 September 2018

Sarah Burnett is shortlisted for Information Age AI Leader of the year
15 August 2018

Sarah Burnett to speak at IEEE Women In Engineering International Leadership Summit
30 July 2018

CW500 video: Sarah Burnett discusses AI
22 March 2018

Nadia Abouayoub on “Why Finance Needs Tech and AI”
19 March 2018

Sarah Burnett's blog on AI – the benefits outweigh the risks, especially for girls
19 March 2018

Sarah Burnett, interviewed by Victoria Derbyshire on BBC Outside Source
22 February 2018

2017

Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrom wins the BCS AI Award for Digital Art, the Inaugural Lumen Prize Winner 2017
29 November 2017

CognitionX: Why Women in AI?
9 May 2017

Free AI webinars for women and men launched by Sarah Burnett
2 May 2017

Sarah Burnett’s blog on promoting the AI Accelerator
22 February 2017

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