Fit-For-Purpose Technologies SRL

28% of engineering graduates and 40% of computer science graduates. These figures from the latest UNESCO Science Report show what is essential: to remind people, more than once a year, that half of the world's population can and must offer their potential in subjects that have been considered too long "masculine."

Once a year? February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the initiative of the United Nations. The eighth of its kind is supposed to build "bridges between the international community and women scientists." Hoping that one day, these bridges will be crossed and that women and girls feel legitimate, firm in their abilities, and determined to take their place in the technological, mathematical, scientific, and digital world.

"Only one in five people working in the field of artificial intelligence is a woman," said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. And yet they excel.

We are pleased to announce that our paper entitled «FaceEDiM: A Face Embedding Distribution Model for Few-Shot Biometric Authentication of Cattle» has been accepted for a poster presentation on November 28th 2022 at the sixth Black in AI Workshop co-located with NeurIPS 2022. 

Black in AI, formally called the Black in AI Workshop, is a technology research organization and affinity group that aim to increase the presence and inclusion of Black people in the field of Artificial Intelligence by creating space for sharing ideas, fostering collaborations, mentorship and advocacy. The Black in AI Workshop is co-located with Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) wich is an annual scientific conference in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Neurosciences which is held every year in the U.S.