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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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Peter Mika wins Semantic Web 10 Year impact award
15 Oct 2015
At the International Semantic Web Conference last week, Peter Mika has received the 10 Year Impact Award. This is the most prestigious award of the semantic web community, and is awarded to the Semantic Web paper ...
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TrimBot2020 project for Theo Gevers
15 Oct 2015
Theo Gevers from the UvA Informatics Institute has been granted funding for the Trimbot2020 project. He will conduct research in the field of 3D computer vision to develop a gardening robot that is able to ...
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Introducing the COMPAT project
8 Oct 2015
The COMPAT project is led by Alfons Hoekstra. The 3-year Horizon 2020 funded COMPAT project launched on 1 October 2015.
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Internship of two Innopolis researchers
8 Oct 2015
Dr. Rasheed Hussain and Dr. Junaid Ahsenali Chaudhry started their internship at SNE, in the context of a co-operation between Innopolis University (Kazan, Russia) and UvA. Rasheed Hussain is Assistant Professor and ...
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Funding for joint UvA, VUA, KNAW, Elsevier project
8 Oct 2015
Amsterdam Data Science enters into a new collaboration with Elsevier and KNAW. As part of the NWO Creative Industry program, NWO and Elsevier will jointly fund the Re-Search project, on searching research data sets.
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Launch MOOC on Business Process Management
8 Oct 2015
The first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Business Process Management will launch on 12 October 2015. Hajo Reijers of the VU participated as one of the lecturers.
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VU Researcher Cristiano Giuffrida wins Dennis M. Ritchie award
8 Oct 2015
Cristiano Giuffrida received the prestigious SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie award for the best PhD in computer systems worldwide for his thesis entitled 'Safe and Automatic Live Update'.
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Amsterdam Science Talent Scholarship for 14 Faculty of Science students
6 Oct 2015
On Thursday 1 October, fourteen Faculty of Science students received the Amsterdam Science Talent Scholarship from Rector Magnificus Dymph van den Boom. The Amsterdam Science Talent Scholarship was founded by the ...
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Science Research at UvA-VU: Re-Search
6 Oct 2015
When doing research, you often use data gathered by your predecessors. But how do you know whether the data you need exist, where you can find them, what their history is? To assist in such matters, the brand new ...
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Opening Netherlands Institute for Conservation Art and Science
1 Oct 2015
On 25 September 2015 the Netherlands Institute for Conservation Art and Science (NICAS) has been launched.
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Interview with Max Welling in 'Financieel Dagblad'
1 Oct 2015
On Saturday, 26 September 2015 an article written by Max Welling (Amlab) appeared in the 'Financieel Dagblad'. The article is the first of series of articles on 'The Power of Predictions'. It reports on the impact of ...
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New interim director of education of MSc Software Engineering
1 Oct 2015
As of 24 September 2015 Hans Dekkers (Lecturers Group) has been appointed interim director of education of MSc Software Engineering
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Amlab Video Club Sackler Colloquium
1 Oct 2015
On Wednesdays 12:30-13:30 we will jointly watch some of the video recordings of presentations given at the recent Sackler Colloquium 'Drawing Causal Inference from Big Data' of the National Academy of Sciences.
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New algorithms for tracking changes in word usage and comparing the meanings of sentences
1 Oct 2015
Computer scientist Tom Kenter from the University of Amsterdam's Informatics Institute (IvI) has developed an algorithm that enables computers to work out whether two sentences mean the same thing. Kenter has also ...
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Wanted: your ideas on the cyberinfrastructure at the New University (NU) building
29 Sept 2015
The New University building (NU, see link below) that is currently being constructed at the VU Campus will be the envisioned new home for the VU and UvA information sciences departments.
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