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  • Cees Snoek & Henri Bal receive grant for Real-Time Video AI

    Professors Cees Snoek (UvA) and Henri Bal (VU) have received a subsidy of €750,000 from NWO's Open Technology Programme for their project ‘Real-Time Video Surveillance Search’.

  • Amsterdam knowledge institutions invest €1 billion in AI

    The knowledge institutions of Amsterdam have joined forces and are investing €1 billion in the development of responsible AI technologies over the next 10 years, by setting up research programmes, attracting top scientists and educating students with state-of-the-art knowledge of AI.


  • Amsterdam Data Science Reveals New Strategy for 2020-2024

    Amsterdam Data Science (ADS), the academic and industry network for Data Science and AI in the Amsterdam region, has released its new Strategy for 2020-2024, unveiling new initiatives including the ADS Blog and a White Paper report.

  • Alfons Hoekstra Appointed as Director of IvI

    Starting 1 January 2020 Alfons Hoekstra will be the new director of the Informatics Institute (IvI) of the University of Amsterdam.

  • UvA Selected as Centre of Excellence For The Retention of AI talent

    The University of Amsterdam has been selected by the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) as an ‘ELLIS Unit’ to keep talent in Machine Learning and related AI research fields in Europe. The unit will be based at the Amsterdam Science Park.