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Academic From Boğaziçi University Will Study How Patenting Rights For Artificial Intelligence Should Work
"Who has the right to patent an invention created by an artificial intelligence?" To find an answer to this question, to which there is no clear legal answer, Özgür Arıkan, an assistant professor at Boğaziçi University Faculty of Law, has started his studies at Oxford University. The "legAIstatus" project, which is part of the European Union's (EU) Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), aims to guide lawmakers on the intellectual property rights of artificial intelligence.
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Boğaziçi University Rises 200 Ranks In The QS World University Rankings
In the "World University Rankings 2024" compiled by the London-based university rating agency QS, Boğaziçi University improved by about 200 ranks compared to the previous year and is now ranked 514th.
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Rector Prof. Dr. İnci At The UN SDSN Turkey Meeting: "As Universities, We Can Be Leaders In Sustainability"
At the board meeting of UN SDSN Turkey held at Boğaziçi University, Rector Prof. Dr. Mehmet Naci İnci emphasized that higher education institutions have a great responsibility to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), saying, "As higher education institutions, we should urgently update our educational programs by taking into account the increasing demand for education on the SDGs and global risks and solutions. We can become sustainability champions, not only to perform better in sustainability indexes, but also through joint efforts that benefit society, the environment and the economy."
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CUBE Beyoğlu Has Opened Its Doors To Start-Ups With The Academic Support Of Boğaziçi University
Turkey's first urban incubation centre CUBE Beyoğlu opened its doors in April. The centre, in which Boğaziçi University is also involved, supports startups in five thematic areas such as digital games and mobile applications.
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Energy And Sustainability Conference in Azerbaijan in Cooperation With Boğaziçi University
Boğaziçi University continues to contribute to the world of science with national and international organizations that it organizes and participates in as a stakeholder. Recently, within this framework, the 3rd Eurasian Energy and Sustainability Conference was held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, from November 24 to 26, with the participation of about 500 participants from 10 countries, organized by Boğaziçi University and Azerbaijan Technical University (AZTU).
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21 Scientist From Boğaziçi University Are Included In The List Of The Most Influential Scientist In The World
The annual list of the world's most influential scientists has been announced. Boğaziçi University managed to be included in the list with 21 scientists in the category of "career-long impact" and 21 in the category of "annual impact".
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Identifying genetic mechanisms of seed dormancy in plants to help agriculture adapt to the long-term effects of global warming
Plants have evolved strategies to tolerate and survive periodic episodes of environmental stress, such as extremes of temperature. Natural selection led to the development of both adaptive behavior and environmental sensing mechanisms that help plants tolerate or avoid such conditions. One of these strategies is the cessation of growth, which takes place after the induction of dormancy in the seeds of many plants. A new project supported by BAP (Boğaziçi University Scientific Research Fund) will start very soon to understand how climate change induces secondary dormancy in seeds. Dr. Steven Footitt from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and his team will investigate how genetically different seeds of the same species survive in soils by using dormancy to adapt to climate change. This project will contribute to understanding of how native flora will adapt to climate change and help in producing the “climate smart crops” needed to sustain Turkey’s farming communities. We conducted an interview with Dr. Steven Footitt for the details of his project.
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Lale Akarun elected Vice President of International Association of Pattern Recognition
Lale Akarun from Boğaziçi University was elected as the vice president of International Association of Pattern Recognition.
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“Understanding the molecular basis of symbiotic nitrogen fixation is the key to more sustainable agriculture in the future”
Modern agriculture completely depends on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, which are produced from non-renewable energy sources. These fertilizers currently support lives of ca. 7 billion people on Earth, but will be depleted within the next 150 years. Besides the non-sustainable nature of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, they destroy soil and water ecosystems and contribute to the greenhouse effect (global warming). The natural alternative to synthetic nitrogen fertilizers is symbiotic nitrogen fixation, which exists in limited evolutionary branches of the plant kingdom, notably in the legume family. Legumes can fix atmospheric nitrogen in cooperation with bacteria called rhizobia, which live in so-called root nodules. Unfortunately, most plants that constitute the human diet have no ability to fix their own nitrogen. The project supported by the TÜBİTAK 1001 program started recently at Boğaziçi University for understanding this natural nitrogen fixation mechanism in the model legume Medicago truncatula. Dr. Igor Kryvoruchko from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and his team will realize a systematic functional analysis of alternative proteins involved in symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the model legume. Understanding the molecular basis of this process and using that information in plant breeding programs will uncouple the agriculture from synthetic nitrogen fertilizers in the future. We conducted an interview with Dr. Kryvoruchko for the details of his project.
