8 April 2026

Researchers from the Archimedes Unit of the Athena Research Center, Greece, together with the Athena Research Center team on Dialectal NLP, affiliated with the Institute for Language and Speech Processing, and in collaboration with researchers from George Mason University, are organizing the first edition of the DialRes-LREC 2026 workshop, “Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective”, to be held on 16 May 2026. More information is available here: https://dialres.github.io/dialres/index.html.

2 April 2026

Antonis Athanassopoulos, an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of George Mason University,USA, and a Lead Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece, was one of the keynote speakers at the Athens NLP 2025 Summer School, held at the National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos in Greece, from 4 to 10 September 2025.His presentation on "Machine Translation and Low-Resource NLP" is now available online.

25 March 2026

24 March 2026

Christos Papadimitriou, Donovan Family Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering at Columbia University, USA, and Principal Scientist at the Archimedes Research Unit of the Athena Research Center, Greece, spoke about “Artificial Intelligence: its History, its Present, and its Uncertain Future” during the ten-year anniversary event of diaNEOsis think tank, which took place on March 11, 2026, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC).

24 March 2026

Vasia Papanikou, a PhD student at the University of Ioannina and an Academic fellow at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece, will be demonstrating "MIMOSA: A Tool for Fairness Exploration Through Explanations" at the 29th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT/ICDT 2026), taking place from March 24–27, 2026, at Tampere, Finland.