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New Management Team members
10 Sept 2015
The Informatics Institute welcomes two new members to the Management Team.
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Visitors: Thorsten Joachims, Tobias Schnabel and Adith Swaminathan
8 Sept 2015
The institute welcomes Thorsten Joachims, Tobias Schnabel and Adith Swaminathan as visitors.
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New colleagues ILPS
8 Sept 2015
Three new colleagues have joined ILPS.
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New colleagues QUVA-Lab
8 Sept 2015
The institute welcomes two new colleagues, Hendrik Heuer and Stratis Gavves, at the QUVA-Lab. The QUVA Lab is a joint research Lab focussed on advancing the state of the art in machine learning techniques for mobile ...
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New colleagues Computational Science Lab
8 Sept 2015
The institute welcomes two new colleagues, Louis Dijkstra and Vishnu Sivadasan, in the Computational Science Lab.
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UvA+VU: New colleague: Eva Kenny-Lowther
8 Sept 2015
Eva Kenny-Lowther has joined UvA+VU as Program Manager of the AAA DS project. Eva will collaborate closely with Frank van Harmelen and Maarten de Rijke.
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Max Welling publishes an article in het 'Financieel Dagblad'.
7 Sept 2015
Max Welling publishes an article in 'het Financieel Dagblad: Flexibel Werken en voor Ieder een Basisinkomen', Financieel Dagblad (22/8/2015). The article has been re-shared over 1000 times.
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Google Faculty Research Award for Evangelos Kanoulas
3 Sept 2015
Evangelos Kanoulas has been awarded a Google Faculty Research Award for his proposal 'Session-based Personalization: Analysis and Evaluation', to conduct research on personalizing search engine results on the basis ...
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VENI grant for Sebastian Altmeyer
20 Aug 2015
Sebastian Altmeyer was awarded a Veni grant by NWO on his proposal 'The time is now: Timing Verification for Safety-Critical Multi-Cores'.
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VU CS: IBM & VU sign agreement for use of IBM Watson Ecosystem
20 Aug 2015
Last week IBM and VU signed an agreement to provide access for the VU students and researchers to the IBM Watson Developer Cloud, as part of the IBM Watson Academic Initiative. This is an important step forward in ...
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Interview Max Welling in 'Financieel Dagblad'.
20 Aug 2015
Max Welling was quoted in the 'Financieel Dagblad (FD)' when he responds to the question if Computer Science plays an important role in Big Data Research. The article was written after the official opening of the ...
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RoboCup 2015
17 Aug 2015
At the RoboCup 2015 in China, UvA had a cooperation with the universities from Nagoya, Japan. Their team became 2nd in the Infrastructure competition from the Rescue Simulation League.
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Veni grant for Thomas Mensink
17 Aug 2015
Thomas Mensink was awarded a Veni grant by NWO on his proposal 'What & Where: Learning Visual Representations of Concepts in Context'.
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Obituary John Holland
17 Aug 2015
It is with great sadness that we let you know that John Holland, one of the founders of Artificial Intelligence and Complex System Science, passed away Sunday morning, 8 August 2015 in Ann Arbor Michigan, USA.
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RoboLab UvA
17 Aug 2015
The RoboLab UvA is now equipped with an OptiTrack motion capture system, which could be used by researchers who like to have ground truth data on the location of persons or objects. If you want to make a reservation, ...
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University of Amsterdam spin-off Scyfer receives FICHe funding
11 Aug 2015
Scyfer, a spin-off company from the University of Amsterdam, has received €217,000 of funding as part of the European FICHe ehealth acceleration programme. The company will use the funding to bring its self-learning ...
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Veni grant for 10 Faculty of Science researchers
17 July 2015
Twenty-three recent doctorate recipients have been awarded a Veni grant from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for research at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the UvA’s Academic Medical ...
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Maarten de Rijke explains Google for 5-12 year olds at NEMO
6 July 2015
On Saturday, 27 June 2015, Maarten de Rijke explained Google to 5-12 year olds as part of the Codestarter project, run by NEMO Science Museum and aimed at fostering software engineering talent at a young age. The ...
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Interview Maarten de Rijke on Amsterdam FM
6 July 2015
A one hour live radio interview with Maarten de Rijke on search, algorithms and the universe for Amsterdam FM took place on 31 May 2015.
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Digital agenda for Europe: What if we could build new self-healing materials?
6 July 2015
Scientists are developing ways to produce self-organising genetically-programmable robots systems. Swarm robotics, inspired by nature, is a combination of computer science and biology that has the potential to change ...
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