{"id":79045,"date":"2023-06-23T20:30:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/?p=79045"},"modified":"2023-06-23T20:30:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:30:21","slug":"algerian-students-win-global-prizes-as-nation-builds-up-ai-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/en\/algerian-students-win-global-prizes-as-nation-builds-up-ai-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Algerian Students Win Global Prizes as Nation Builds Up AI Research"},"content":{"rendered":"
Months after Algeria\u00a0declared<\/a>\u00a02023 the year of artificial intelligence, Algerian students have\u00a0won<\/a>\u00a0first prizes in two categories of the Chinese technology company Huawei\u2019s global competition for information and communication technologies (ICT).<\/p>\n The two Algerian student teams came first in the Network and Cloud tracks of the competition, and second in two other divisions, Kamel Baddari, Algeria\u2019s minister of higher education, told Al-Fanar Media.<\/p>\n The students\u2019 success comes as the nation is making strides to build its research and innovation capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n At the start of the year, Baddari stressed \u201cthe need to offer new university courses to teach and get ready for artificial intelligence and its use in higher education and scientific research.\u201d He announced the establishment of a council of experts, researchers, and specialised professors to introduce artificial intelligence in the higher education and research sectors.<\/p>\n Mohamed Majour, a professor at the Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics at Ferhat Abbas University S\u00e9tif 1, believes such moves are essential to keep pace with developments in higher education. He wants to expand the Research Council in Artificial Intelligence to include all researchers in the field, evaluate the year\u2019s research, and discuss future prospects.<\/p>\n In April, Baddari held talks with a number of Algerian artificial intelligence experts who work abroad. They included Mohamed Senussi, a research professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Riyadh Baghdadi, an assistant professor at New York University\u2013Abu Dhabi, and Marwan Dabbah, a senior investigator at the Institute of Technology Innovation, the research arm of Abu Dhabi\u2019s Advanced Technology Research Council.<\/p>\n Baghdadi told Al-Fanar Media that artificial intelligence has become the basis of the world\u2019s economies. He believes national efforts to promote it in higher education are \u201cthe beginning of greater cohesion between Algerian researchers in the diaspora and the national academic sector.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOne of our school\u2019s goals is to equip engineers with basic knowledge in mathematics and a deep theoretical understanding of technologies like artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship, as well as the practical skills that help them keep pace with the labour market inside and outside Algeria.\u201d<\/p>\n Souad Hadli, a researcher at Algeria\u2019s National School of Artificial Intelligence (ENSIA)\u00a0<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In the 2021\u20132022 academic year, Algeria opened the National School for Artificial Intelligence (ENSIA<\/a>) to receive high school graduates in this field. The school is designed to train engineers in theories and applications of artificial intelligence and data science. Its students will be taught to develop and publish practical and innovative solutions to problems in sectors like health, energy, agriculture and transportation, thus contributing to the country\u2019s scientific and economic development.<\/p>\n Souad Hadli, a researcher and lecturer at ENSIA, said it was hoped the school would correct the shortage of scholars and specialists in data science, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, computer vision, automatic language processing, and speech processing.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of our school\u2019s goals is to equip engineers with basic knowledge in mathematics and a deep theoretical understanding of technologies like artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship, as well as the practical skills that help them keep pace with the labour market inside and outside Algeria,\u201d she told Al-Fanar Media.<\/p>\n The experts who run the school get help from Algerian scholars abroad, creating educational programmes that reflect the needs of the labour market. The school has adopted English as the language of instruction because it is the language of most of the internationally approved curricula in the field.<\/p>\n\n
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