The Social and Cognitive Informatics Laboratory (SCILA), established in November 2019, is the successor of the Laboratory for Internet Studies. SCILA’s interdisciplinary team seeks to investigate and model interaction of individual humans and groups with information, knowledge, respective technologies and with other humans using these technologies. The research strongly relies both on the knowledge from social, behavioral and cognitive sciences and on the cutting-edge approaches from computer science, including machine learning and computational linguistics.
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Alexia Syromyatnikova, a research intern of the Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics, attended the conference that took place on December 6-7 in Yaroslavl.
December 11
Junior Research Fellow Anton Surkov joined ICMLD 2024 that took place at Dehradun, India.
December 05
Laboratory's Deputy Head Elena Artemenko is invited as a plenary speaker to the 8th International Conference "General Theoretical and Typological Problems of Linguistics", that will be held at Altay region this year.
November 08
The EyeFeatures library for analysing eye movements developed by the Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics within the framework of the strategic project AI-technologies for human has been released for the first time! Now everyone can install and try the library on their own computer.
October 31
At HSE University – Saint Petersburg, the international AI School-Conference, ISSCAI 2024, took place. It was organized by the School of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science in collaboration with the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics, with support from VK and other partners. The week-long intensive program attracted talented students, postgraduates, and developers from across the country—from Moscow to Yekaterinburg—as well as from Kazakhstan and Egypt. Leading experts from Russia, the UAE, and India delivered courses on key trends in artificial intelligence, ranging from computer vision to music signal processing.
July 17
As part of the International AI School-Conference, a poster competition was held.
July 12
The School of Interdisciplinary Research in Cognitive and Social Sciences (IRCSS) will be held from 25-27 September 2024 in Saint Petersburg.
July 11
From June 26 to 30, 2024, the X International Conference on Cognitive Science was held at Pyatigorsk State University.
July 01
The 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association took place in Australia, where projects from the Social and Cognitive Informatics Lab of HSE University were presented.
June 28
Intern-researcher Anastasia Zhitkova from the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics participated in the program.
June 20