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A photograph that was long thought to be of the 13-year-old Vincent van Gogh has now been proven to be a portrait of his brother Theo van Gogh, aged 15. This discovery is the result of new, in-depth research ...

Robots that automatically harvest tomatoes or package biscuits in boxes of various sizes are now becoming a reality. Theo Gevers, professor Computer Vision is involved in this project.

Each year the prestigious American university MIT (Massachutes Institute of Technologie) releases a list of the world’s best innovators under 35. UvA researcher Taco Cohen of the Informatics Institute is among this ...

Peter Sloot (UvA) talks about how computer models, new methods and new mathematics can help solving complex urban issues in virtually every area.

Apple and Amazon invest billions of dollars in artificial intelligence. What is AI and does it work? The book, written by Max Welling isn't written for the experts but for everyone who realizes that AI is changing ...

A research team led by Peter Sloot, professor of Complex Adaptive Systems at the UvA, has managed to pinpoint the mechanisms behind the immune response triggered in patients undergoing open heart surgery. The team’s ...

Ben Czaja researcher at the Computaional Science Lab studied how whole blood forms clots (thrombosis) in aneurysms that can be found in the brain.

Dr H. Haned (1983) has been named professor by special appointment of Data Science at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Science. This chair was established on behalf of the Béta Plus Foundation.

Sebastian Altmeyer, assistant professor of the Systems and Network Lab of the Informatics Institute, is one of the three authors of the paper 'EMPRESS: an Efficient and effective Method for PREdictable Stack Sharing'.

Prof. Maarten de Rijke has been appointed University Professor of AI and Information Retrieval at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), effective 1 September 2018. De Rijke will combine his new chair, which will be ...

There are major concerns that the current climate change and ocean acidification is endangering growth of reef-building corals. In this light, Eva Deutekom and Jaap Kaandorp of the UvA Computational Science Lab are ...

A study conducted on the largest EV charging transactions dataset worldwide revealed insight in what rollout strategy for charging points can best be applied by policy makers.

Eight publications on machine learning, by researchers from the Institute of Informatics, are accepted by the upcoming leading International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and Uncertainty in Artificial ...

Ramesh Jain will give a lecture on Wednesday 4 July 2017 11:00 - 12:00 Science Park 904, Room C0.110

Romi Geleijn, Marrit van der Meer, Quinten van der Post, Reitze Jansen, Yannick Vinkesteijn and Wouter Vrielink, UvA-bachelorstudents from the Minor Programmeren and the bachelor BètaGamma, presented the results of ...

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros to 11 experienced researchers from the University of Amsterdam and Academic Medical Center (AMC-UvA). The grant ...

Frank Nack was officially named as the UvA’s 2018 Lecturer of the Year during the Education Day on Thursday, 31 May. Frank Nack is the programme director of the MSc in Information Studeies at the Faculty of Science.

On Thursday 26 April, Maarten de Rijke launched the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI). Followed up with the start of AIRLab, a collaboration with Ahold Delhaize.

Science and business in the Netherlands are joining forces in the field of artificial intelligence. Today, the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) will be officially launched at Amsterdam Science ...

Max Welling, professor of Machine Learning at the University of Amsterdam, is among a group of European leading scientists with plans to establish a vast multinational institute devoted to world-class artificial ...