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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 ...

An international team of researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the University of Geneva has shown that information processing features can accurately predict the emergent behaviour of complex ...

Imagine your doctor has a digital copy of you stored in his or her computer. Your digital twin is like a volunteer that is always there for you, on which treatment of any disease you may have can be tested. This ...

An international team of researchers including Jaap Kaandorp of the University of Amsterdam show new results about bio-inspired controlled crystal growth using experiments and computational models. The research is ...

The American Academy of Forensic Sciences unanimously voted Professor Zeno Geradts as President-Elect. Geradts is a Senior Forensic Scientist at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) and chair by special ...

Six publications on computer vision, by researchers from the Informatics Institute, are accepted by the leading IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). This is a new record for a Dutch ...

Frank Nack, lecturer and programme director in the Master's programme Information Studies, has been named the faculty winner of the Lecturer of the Year election by Faculty of Science students. John van Boxel and Leo ...

The Master’s programme ‘System and Network Engineering’ of the Faculty of Science is again designated as ‘Top Programme’ by the Universities Study Guide 2018.

BackToBasic is the annual UvA Information Sciences event where alumni, students, researchers, lecturers and others interested meet informally to discuss topics in the Information Sciences.

Dr E. Kanoulas (1980) has been appointed professor of Text Analytics & Information Retrieval at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Economics and Business. Kanoulas will combine this chair with his current ...

In 2015 the Qualcomm joined forces with the UvA to create a research center in the relatively new field of deep vision: the QUVA lab. Peter Rauber works at Qualcomm as a Senior Director of engineering, and is ...

Dr C.G.M. Snoek (1978) has been appointed professor of Intelligent Sensory Information Systems at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science.

A new international study led by UvA researchers Peter Sloot and Michael Lees has yielded extensive data on slums in Bangalore and provides a detailed insight into the problem of poverty in India. The highly granular ...