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Svetlana Kordumova received ACM Multimedia Retrieval best paper award
13 June 2016
Svetlana Kordumova, PhD from the Informatics Institute (IvI), received the Best Paper Award at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2016. The prize is received for the paper entitled ‘Pooling ...
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Best paper award for Max Welling and other computer scientists
7 June 2016
A team of computer scientists from UvA and VU (including Max Welling of the Informatics Institute) have won the best paper award at the ParLearning workshop in Chicago, on 27 May.
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Towards a joint location: NU building
2 June 2016
In the next three months we will keep you informed of the latest developments in the construction of the NU building at the South campus.
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Gauging age outside the lab: tricky business
31 May 2016
A webcam on the door of a club that can automatically tell whether a young adult is old enough to enter and buy a beer. A webcam that sees what a woman is looking at in a shop window. If it is up to UvA postdoc Fares ...
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Lecturer in the Spotlight: Leo Dorst
26 May 2016
Leo Dorst teaches a first-year linear algebra course for the Bachelor's programmes in Artificial Intelligence and Computing Science, as well as a second-year image processing course for the Bachelor's in Artificial ...
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Max Welling on self-learning computers
26 May 2016
On 29 April 2016 NRC Handelsblad published an interview with Max Welling, professor Machine learning at the University of Amsterdam, titled 'En toen ging de computer zelf leren'.
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Grant for Martijn Stegeman
26 Apr 2016
The Ministry of OCW (Education, Culture and Science) has granted Martijn Stegeman, lecturer at the Informatics Institute, a subsidy for his project scientific programming skills.
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1 billion euros for Quantum Flagship
26 Apr 2016
The European Commission has proposed to invest one billion euros in a Quantum Flagship, a large-scale European research programme for quantum technology. Within the Quantum Flagship, researchers from various fields ...
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Funding to support development of the Virtual Physiological Human
18 Apr 2016
CompBioMed, a to-be established distributed Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine, recently received H2020 funding from the European Commission. Aim of this European project is to facilitate the uptake ...
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All quantum communication involves nonlocality
5 Apr 2016
Harry Buhrman, professor in Computer Science at the UvA and director of the research center Qusoft, has proven with colleagues from several international universities that quantum communication is based on ...
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Zhaochun Ren wins Chinese Government Award
29 Mar 2016
Zhaochun Ren, PhD candidate at the UvA Informatics Institute, has been awarded the ‘2016 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad’. He receives the award for his PhD research on ...
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Best student paper for Mohammad Shafahi
10 Mar 2016
At the BIOINFORMATICS 2016 conference (21-23 February) in Rome, Mohammad Shafahi from the Federated Collaborative Networks group won the prize for the best student paper.
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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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