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13 November 2023
Dutch Applied AI Award 2023 to KLM, Mainblades and KPN >
KLM Engineering & Maintenance, Mainblades and KPN won this year's Dutch Applied AI Award. The award jury particularly praised the linking of drones, communication technology and Artificial Intelligence in this partnership.
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13 November 2023
Better weather forecast thanks to AI >
Using AI, it is possible to better predict warm weather. For this, atmospheric scientist Chiem van Straaten developed a method that learns from wrong weather predictions and leads to more reliable information.
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12 November 2023
AI for Sustainable Molecules and Materials research programme >
To kick-start the new Research Priority Area (RPA) of the Faculty of Science in "Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Molecules and Materials" (AI4SMM), four projects have just been launched.
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12 November 2023
Fighting the reading crisis with a reading robot >
Three researchers from VU Amsterdam are starting a pilot with a reading robot for primary school students. They want to test whether robots can help increase children's reading skills.
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10 November 2023
New taxonomy aims to improve generalization research in NLP >
Natural Language Processing—the subfield of computer science concerned with giving computers the ability to ‘understand’ and ‘generate’ human language—has taken a huge flight in the past decade.
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9 November 2023
Frank van Harmelen on how humans and machines can successfully work together >
Frank van Harmelen is professor of Artificial Intelligence at VU University Amsterdam and sits on the advisory committee for the Ammodo Science Awards.
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7 November 2023
AI is going to radically change medical world >
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on an unprecedented rise, including in the medical world.
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1 November 2023
Two openings at the VU Department of Computer Science >
The Department of Computer Science has two openings for an assistant/associate professor! One is focused on AI & Health (jointly with the Amsterdam UMC) and one on Human-Aware AI.
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10 October 2023
New UvA Research Lab puts Responsible AI into Practice >
Video-AI is at the heart of many of controversies around AI (Artificial Intelligence), from automated public surveillance to drones for military use.
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30 April 2024
AI020 Recap >
We are fresh off AI020, our team is still buzzing!
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30 April 2024
ERC advanced grants awarded to multiple Amsterdam knowledge institutes >
€652 million was allocated to leading researchers across Europe through the EU's Horizon Europe program, aiming to facilitate scientific breakthroughs. Notably, the Netherlands secured a total of 23 grants, with Amsterdam universities and research centres claiming around half.
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29 April 2024
Amsterdam's Kepler Vision Technologies receives €1.5M to increase support in healthcare >
ROM InWest's €1.5M investment in Amsterdam's Kepler Vision Technologies will facilitate the launch of 'Kepler Night Nurse,' which uses AI-driven technology to improve care quality, particularly for the elderly.
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29 April 2024
Can artificial intelligence assist us in staining cancer tissue samples? >
Last week, researcher Sara Pires de Oliveira received funding from the Dutch Research Council NWO (Dutch Research Council) to explore this concept.
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April 23 2024
Hyperscenarios of artificial intelligence usage: an essay by Nanda Piersma >
In her essay, Nanda Piersma from CREATE-IT APPLIED RESEARCH at HvA discusses the complexity of artificial intelligence and how its deployment by people is key to responsible usage.
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