Science centres

Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence as a concept was foreseen by Alan Turing back in the 1950s when he asked: "Can machines think?" Early AI tools were based on symbolic reasoning, problem-solving and simple games. They paved the way for today's generative models that create new content, images, music and ideas, with extraordinary creativity.

What does the Centre do?

At the Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence, we develop technologies that enable computers to learn and solve problems in a human-like manner. We deal with artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms and improving human-computer cooperation.

Artificial intelligence is widely applied and significantly improves everyday life, making it more fun, easier and safer. For example, smartphones use AI to recognise the user's face, answer questions and suggest words while typing. In games, AI controls the movement of monsters or cars. Self-driving cars that use AI to recognise traffic signs and pedestrians are being produced now. Home devices can answer questions, play music and vacuum the space based on voice commands. All of this is possible because of progress in the field of artificial intelligence!

Centre Head

Prof. Dr Boško Nikolić

Full Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics

Boško Nikolić is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. Since 2008, he has been the Head of the Computing Centre and since 2018, he has been the Head of the Software Engineering Department. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, where he also obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in the field of computer engineering and informatics. He teaches several courses at all study levels, including Intelligent Systems, Internet Application Programming, Internet Programming, Discovering Hidden Knowledge, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. He also taught at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Banja Luka and the Faculty of Organisational Sciences in Belgrade.
He is the co-author of 20 papers in international journals and numerous conference papers. He led professional courses in the Computing Centre and the Innovation Centre of ETF including IT retraining courses under the auspices of the Government of Serbia and the UNDP. He also led numerous national and international scientific and commercial projects.

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Ongoing projects

  • Software for voice recognition in Serbian and generating queries for databases
  • Software for detecting hate speech in the Serbian language
  • Digital math textbook with a problem generator using artificial intelligence techniques

Learn more about the work and activities of the Centre at data.etf.bg.ac.rs