CfP: Explainable AI and Evaluation of Algorithms for Autonomous Marine Vehicles
Direct link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse/special_issues/Robin_AI_algorithms_autonomous_marine_vehicles Flyer: flyer.pdf Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2021. About the journal: The Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE) is ranked at Level 1 in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers. Dear Colleagues, Artificial intelligence (AI) is an enabling technology for autonomous marine vehicles, including autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles […]
SoftICE presenting at January seminar on Digitalization at Ålesund high school

SoftICE members Ottar L. Osen and Robin T. Bye are presenting at the annual January seminar at Ålesund high school on Friday 12 January 2018. This year’s theme is digitalization. The seminar will take place both at Parken kulturhus and at Latinskolen. Osen will also take part in the panel discussion. The title of the […]
CSEDU 2017 papers selected for special issue in CCIS Springer series
In April 2017, SoftICE members Ottar L. Osen and Robin T. Bye presented two papers on educational research at CSEDU 2017. According to the CSEDU website, “[t]he very best papers presented at this event are selected by the conference and program chairs of the event based on a number of criteria that include the classifications and […]
Brice Assimizele defends PhD thesis

On 12 June 2017, Brice Assimizele defended his PhD thesis at Molde University College (MUC). The thesis is entitled Models and algorithms for optimal dynamic allocation of patrol tugs to oil tankers along the northern Norwegian coast and qualifies Dr. Assimizele to the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Logistics (Operations Research) –Specialized in Maritime Operations. […]
SoftICE presenting intelligent virtual prototyping at ECMS 2017

SoftICE members Robin T. Bye and Ibrahim A. Hameed will be presenting some recent research results on intelligent virtual prototyping of maritime winches in two scientific papers to be presented at the 31st European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS) 2017 in Budapest, Hungary, on 23–26 May. The papers are co-authored by the two abovementioned researchers together with SoftICE colleagues […]
NTNU Ålesund students win prestigious automation engineering award on USVs for aqua farm inspection

Better late than never! In February 2017, bachelor students of automation engineering at NTNU Ålesund, Albert Havnegjerde, Vegard Kamsvåg og Sveinung Liavaag, won the prestigious Norwegian national award for the best bachelor thesis 2016 on automatic control given by the Norwegian Society for Automatic Control (NFA). The students also co-wrote a paper based on their work […]
Undervisningsseminar 27. mars
Undervisningsseminar Automagisk sensur, adaptivt læringsverktøy, og aktiv læring mandag 27. mars 2017 kl. 10-12 Auditorium Nørvasundet, Hovedbygningen, NTNU i Ålesund Software and Intelligent Control Engineering (SoftICE) Laboratory ved Institutt for IKT og realfag (IIR) inviterer med dette til åpent seminar om moderne undervisning i høyere utdanning. Program 10.00 Åpning v/Annik Magerholm Fet, viserektor, NTNU 10.05 […]
SoftICE presents educational research at CSEDU 2017
SoftICE members Ottar L. Osen and Robin T. Bye and will be presenting two educational research papers at the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2017) in Porto, Portugal on 21–23 April: Ottar L. Osen and Robin T. Bye. Reflections on teaching electrical and computer engineering courses at the bachelor level. In Proceedings of the 9th […]
Opening of Telenor-NTNU AI-Lab and its first Hackathon

The Telenor-NTNU AI-Lab was officially opened on 8 March 2017, when several prominent guests, including Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry Monica Mæland, Norwegian Minister of Culture Linda Hofstad Helleland, SINTEF CEO Alexandra Bech Gjørv, and Telenor CEO Sigve Brekke, amongst others, joined NTNU rector Gunnar Bovim and head of the Department of Computer Science at […]
SoftICE researchers become IEEE Senior Members
SoftICE researchers Ibrahim A. Hameed and Robin T. Bye have in November 2016 and February 2017, respectively, been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization with more than 420,000 members worldwide in over 160 countries and is dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. IEEE produces over 30% […]