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Three UvA Informatics Master's renew their designation as ‘Top Rated Programme’
8 Mar 2016
The Master's programmes in Logic, System and Network Engineering (SNE) and Software Engineering at the University of Amsterdam's Graduate School of Informatics have once again achieved the designation ‘Top Rated ...
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Science Education at UvA-VU: Master's in Computational Science
8 Mar 2016
‘Nature is a complex system that processes information. Computational Science aims to make the complexity of those systems traceable.’ So it says on the website of the Master’s in Computational Science, and it is the ...
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Pilot at schools with learning environment for ‘systems thinking’
1 Mar 2016
Dynalearn Web, an interactive learning environment that helps students develop systems thinking, is being tested at secondary schools in the Amsterdam region as part of a feasibility study. Bert Bredeweg of the UvA ...
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Review committee very positive on computer science collaboration UvA and VU
25 Feb 2016
According to the national review committee Computer Science, the collaboration between the computer science departments of VU and UvA has the potential to 'become one of the worldwide leading institutes for Computer ...
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IvI and ILLC start collaboration with software company SAP
23 Feb 2016
The UvA research institutes IvI and ILLC have started a collaboration with software company SAP. The first two projects are focused on text analysis in combination with machine learning.
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Christof Monz receives Google Faculty Research Award
22 Feb 2016
Christof Monz, who is associate professor at the Informatics Institute, has received a Google Faculty Research Award worth the amount of 58,000 US dollars.
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Tata Steel opens new office at Amsterdam Science Park
1 Feb 2016
Steel manufacturer Tata Steel officially opened a new office at Amsterdam Science Park on Friday, 29 January.
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Nikos Voskarides wins 2014/2015 STIL Thesis Award
28 Jan 2016
ILPS PhD student Nikos Voskarides won the 2014/2015 STIL Thesis Award for his MSc thesis 'Explaining relationships between entities.'
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NWO TOP-funding for five Faculty of Science researchers
26 Jan 2016
Five researchers of the Faculty of Science were awarded funding from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as part of the NWO TOP-programme. They are: Carsten Dominik and Selma de Mink (Anton ...
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Maarten de Rijke receives NWO TOP grant
25 Jan 2016
Professor Maarten de Rijke receives an NWO TOP grant worth €650.000 to work on contextual learning to rank for information retrieval.
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Computer predicts popularity of pictures on twitter
12 Jan 2016
Photos of cats are extremely popular on websites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. But why pictures are popular online is actually not very clear. Thomas Mensink and his colleagues Cees Snoek and Spencer Capallo ...
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Assistant professor ‘Information Processing in Complex Adaptive Systems’
17 Dec 2015
The Computational Science Laboratory (CSL) of the Informatics Institute has a vacancy for an Assistant professor.
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Funding for UvA eScience projects
11 Dec 2015
Two projects, submitted by Alfons Hoekstra and Mike Lees of the UvA Informatics Institute, are granted funding and expertise of the Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC). The projects are awarded up to the value of ...
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Green Computer Networks
8 Dec 2015
The latest issue of the Amsterdam Science magazine features an article on the research done by assistant professor in the System and Network Engineering (SNE) group at the Informatics Institute, Paola Grosso and her ...
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Innovation Award for Shabaz Sultan and Simon Portegies Zwart
25 Nov 2015
UvA Master's student in Computational Science Shabaz Sultan and Leiden University Professor Simon Portegies Zwart have won a Surf Innovation Challenge Award for their research into 'Interactive high-performance ...
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Science Research at UvA-VU: CHAT
17 Nov 2015
How can computer scientists work with academics from the humanities? That is a topic the future Center for Humanities and Technology (CHAT) will be focusing on. One of its founders is Lora Aroyo, a researcher from ...
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Emotion recognition software for Google Glass to help autistic adolescents
10 Nov 2015
In a joint experiment, the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University built a Google Glass app to assist adolescents with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder in the processing of social information. Professor Theo ...
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Emoticon-based video search
3 Nov 2015
Researchers Spencer Cappallo, Thomas Mensink and Cees Snoek of the University of Amsterdam and Qualcomm Research Netherlands developed a search engine that allows a search through YouTube videos with the use of ...
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CIKM 2015 best student paper award for Daan Odijk
2 Nov 2015
Daan Odijk, PhD student in the ILPS team at the UvA, received the Best Student Paper Award for his paper 'Struggling and Success in Web Search' at the 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge ...
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LODLaundromat wins best paper award
2 Nov 2015
Laurens Rietveld en Wouter Beek, PhD students in the Knowledge Representation group at the VU, together with their supervisor Stefan Schlobach, won the Best Paper Award last week at the International Semantic Web ...
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