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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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VU CS: Big security hole in Android
6 July 2015
Researchers from the group of Prof. Herbert Bos have uncovered a major security hole on Android phones. Google has been ignoring the issue for months.
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VU CS: Radio interview with Hajo Reijers on BNR News Radio
6 July 2015
Prof. Hajo Reijers gave his inaugural speech on 26 June. You can listen to an interview he gave on BNR News Radio on problems caused by automation (in Dutch).
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Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab
29 June 2015
The Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLAB, former IAS), lead by Max Welling, is now official.
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UvA and Qualcomm Technologies Inc., to start research lab 'QUVA'
25 June 2015
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), global leader in next-generation mobile technologies, are jointly starting a research lab.
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AI Master’s students successful in Data Science Game competition
25 June 2015
Four students of the Master's programme Artificial Intelligence (AI) took part in the Data Science Game. The team went home with a very honourable fourth prize, and a unique learning experience.
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Interview Arnold Smeulders 'De IT-Oligarchie' in De Groene Amsterdammer
22 June 2015
Interview 'De IT-Oligarchie'(in Dutch) with Arnold Smeulders by Yvonne Zonderop in De Groene Amsterdammer, nr 23, 4 June 2015, pp 40-43. The monopolies of Apple, Facebook and Google should be broken up, finds Arnold ...
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Google Fellowship for Durk Kingma
22 June 2015
Durk Kingma, PhD student at the University of Amsterdam's Informatics Institute is a recipient of the prestigious Google European Fellowship award. Kingma conducts his research on the design of models and learning ...
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UvA-VU: Peter Sloot and Guszti Eiben on Dutch television
15 June 2015
Two computer scientists from Amsterdam, Peter Sloot and Guszti Eiben, featured on television in a 50 minutes episode called 'Mens versus machine' in the VPRO TV series. This episode covered artificial ...
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