September 11, 2023

The Ministry of Social Development and Family (MSDF) organized Monday a symposium titled “The Role of Education in Community Building” in celebration of International Literacy Day with the participation of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the Education Above All Foundation, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

The symposium, organized by the Community Development Department of the Ministry, discussed the importance of reducing illiteracy and raising awareness about the significance of education. It provided an opportunity for relevant authorities, civil soc…

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Jassim Mohammed Al Mulla, a Qatari PhD student at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College of Science and Engineering (CSE), and his supervisor Dr. Tanvir Alam, Assistant Professor, co-created “SoccerNet,” the first deep learning based Artificial Intelligence (AI) based model in the MENA region capable of predicting the result of a professional football match with a high rate of accuracy.

Detailed in SoccerNet: A Gated Recurrent Unit-based model to predict soccer match winners – an article published in esteemed academic journal PLoS One – the team trained SoccerNet utilizing data from Qatar Stars League (QSL) matches between 2011 and 2…

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