Switch on the TV on 12 March! The next episode of the famous German popular science show, Terra-X, will be featuring SCIoI members Jens Krause, Marcel Brass, Heiko Hamann, and David Bierbach.  The documentary will explore the secrets and wonders of collective intelligence, with examples drawing from SCIoI research. And if you can't wait that long, worry

We've asked our IT Officers, Stephan Rosenzweig and Serkan Korkmaz, about their daily life at SCIoI, and here is what they answered. The two of you are behind the IT infrastructure at SCIoI. What does that mean? What does your typical day look like? Stephan: Our primary responsibility is to oversee and maintain the IT infrastructure. This includes providing

Efficient AI for individual artificial agents and teams is a critical area of research for computer science and engineering. To explore paths towards efficient and sustainable robot perception and learning, the Excellence Cluster Science of Intelligence (SCIoI, Berlin, Germany) and the International Society of Adaptive Behavior (ISAB, Aberystwyth, UK) are hosting a one-week summer school in Berlin on the

Ever wonder why we act differently in social situations compared to when we're alone? Well, Marcel Brass, one of our psychologists at Science of Intelligence (SCIoI), is on a mission to find out. By conducting behavior experiments and using neuroscientific methods, he is uncovering the cognitive processes that allow us to behave in a socially intelligent

We are excited to announce that on 19 June, 2023, Science of Intelligence PI Guillermo will co-host a workshop about event-based vision at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023. With an open call for papers and demos in related topics, as well as an invitation to hold presentations, this event provides

What do the brain and a school of fish have in common? They are both capable of efficient collective information processing, although each unit within them only has access to local information. In the brain, it is the stimuli from 86 billion neurons that form the basis for information processing; in the shoal, it is the

Event cameras mimic the human eye to allow robots to navigate their environment. Science of Intelligence PI Guillermo Gallego, together with Shintaro Shiba and Yoshimitsu Aoki from Keio University in Japan, recently found a new approach to help minimize the related computational costs.  The new method used event camera data, just like the previous method, but also

PRESS RELEASE by Science of Intelligence 24 January 2023 Sheep are more democratic than you think Collective motion brings to mind fascinating images, such as the flocks of birds over a corn field, or schools of barracudas as they move in circles in the water. These motions are also particularly appealing to physicists, as the patterns that emerge lend