The UJI Cuatroochenta chair will improve the lives of the elderly – Mediterráneo – 12/06/2021
The rector of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, Eva Alcón, and the founding partner of Cuatroochenta Sergio Aguado have signed an agreement for the creation of the Cuatroochenta Chair of Artificial Intelligence, Health and Wellbeing of the Universitat Jaume I. The new chair has as general objectives the promotion of teaching, research, the dissemination of knowledge and innovation in the technology sector to promote people's health.
The rector of the Universitat Jaume I, Eva Alcón, highlighted that "the deployment of artificial intelligence implies important changes and we must find a way to take advantage of it so that it has a positive impact, in this case in the field of health and well-being ». Furthermore, he stressed that "at the UJI we believe that the promotion of this technology must be done following, as a basic principle, the well-being of society as a whole, and this chair and the collaboration with Cuatroochenta mean betting on a focused artificial intelligence in people".
The CIO and founding partner of the company, Sergio Aguado, explained that "the main motivation for creating the chair has been to support the research work of UJI professor Óscar Belmonte, whom we have as a reference, and especially his line of research that "puts technology at the service of the well-being of older people." "With three grandparents over ninety years old," he said, "I am especially excited that progress can be made in the well-being of these generations," and he added that "another important reason is to return to the university part of what it has offered us in terms of training, quality of life and talent acquisition.
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