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Media Futures David Carrol
– Norwegians need to guard their private data, says the professor who made Facebook buckle. (19.06.2019)
David Carroll sued Cambridge Analytica and won. Now, the professor who made Facebook buckle visits Future Week in Bergen. He asks Norwegians to wake up.
Example of a high-quality panorama soccer video
Machine learning for human performance prediction (03.06.2019)
This is the Summer talk of the seminar series from the SSIS group.
Studenter bruker HTC-Vive teknologi
Open House at MCB Future Week (29.05.2019)
UiB shows media technology of the future in an open Media City Bergen
Media Futures Holosuite VR briller
Type of prototype (07.05.2019)
Would you like to take all your monitors and screens with you inside your glasses? Or perhaps have your interview automatically transcribed? These students are developing technological prototypes that might prove useful for media people.
Media Futures Dame skjenner på ein robot
Shame on you, robot! (07.05.2019)
Faceless robots are moving into our living rooms. They are clever, but not necessarily nice.
Professor Cathal Gurrin
Lifelogging - a new information management challenge (26.03.2019)
Welcome to the SSIS Easter seminar.
Masterstudenter på medie- og interaksjonsdesign blir presentert for ideer til masteroppgaver av bedrifter
Media and media tech companies pitch ideas for master's projects (15.02.2019)
Would you like to do your master´s project with companies such as the streaming service TV 2 Sumo or the media tech company Mediability? This is possible in the media cluster Media City Bergen.
TV2 scholarship
TV 2 awards scholarships to four student projects (23.01.2019)
TV 2 awarded a total of NOK 100.000 to master students from the department of Information and Media Science at the University of Bergen (UiB) during a ceremony at Media City Bergen last week. The scholarship is part of their ongoing commitment to supporting new media talents.
Demo for studentene på MIX301
Master students make artificial speech robots (19.12.2018)
Students in the Master in Media and Interaction Design programme at UiB in Media City Bergen presented their artificial speech prototypes. The result is: Robot Buddy, Easysleep, Masebotten and Albert the kitchen assistant.
bilde av marija slavkovik
Can our digital performance be understood by a theoretical formula? Marija Slavkovik hopes to find the answer. (11.12.2018)
The rule of building a perfect algorithm translates to a common experience of the real world: If you want something to be beautiful, it must handle complexity.
Derek Lackaff
"International exchange of perspectives are more important than ever" (26.11.2018)
Fulbright scholar Derek Lackaff is impressed with the facilities at Media City Bergen (MCB) and thinks that international exchange and knowledge-sharing are more important than ever.
Marija Slavkovik
Research profile: Marija Slavkovik (12.11.2018)
Marija Slavkovik is an Associate professor of Information Science at UiB. She has spent the past ten years (including years as a student) in AI. She holds a masters in Computational Logic and a PhD in Informatics. Her doctoral thesis was in computational social choice (automated collective reasoning) and multi-agent systems. She has worked as postdoc on autonomous systems at the Department of... Read more
Henrik and Simon presents their "Konfliktrådet"
Master students in scriptwriting pitching ideas for TV-series (12.11.2018)
Internships at ITV Studios and NRK 
Nordicom Review
Nordicom Review (04.12.2017)
What is the role of photojournalists in an age where the news media is flooded with images from other sources? This is one of many questions investigated in a new Special Issue of Nordicom Review. Astrid Gynnild is one of the issues' four editors.
Portrait of Postdoctoral fellow Marija Slavkovik, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen (UiB).
In love with the machines (25.04.2017)
Marija Slavkovik has always been attracted to machines. In fact, she has turned artificial intelligence into the core theme of her research.
Professor Kristine Jørgensen, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen (UiB), photographed in her office in April 2017, when she was made professor of media studies.
Gaming her way to professorship (20.04.2017)
Kristine Jørgensen has been appointed professor at the University of Bergen. She is Norway’s first woman to become a professor focusing on computer game studies.
Professor Ole J. Mjøs from the University of Bergen outside the new media cluster, Media City Bergen, in March 2017.
Media education in front in Bergen (06.04.2017)
In August, six new and innovative media study programmes are launched in Media City Bergen. Academic Director Ole J. Mjøs looks forward to welcoming new media students to Bergen.
Hands handling media (tablet, newspaper, notebook); illustration as part of news article about media diversity
New report on media diversity submitted (07.03.2017)
Hallvard Moe was the only media researcher in Norway’s media diversity committee, which submitted its report to the Minister of Culture on 07 March 2017.

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