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Stefan Manegold wins 2020 Sigmod Contributions Award
Stefan Manegold, group leader of Database Architectures at CWI, won the 2020 SIGMOD Contributions Award. The award recognizes his innovative work in the data management community to encourage scientific reproducibility.
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International Mobility of Dutch AI Researchers is High
The Rathenau Institute's latest report (in Dutch) on the international mobility of AI researchers shows that there is no "brain drain" of such expertise in the Netherlands but a "brain exchange".
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UvA’s Systems and Networking Lab Divides to Grow
The Systems and Networking Lab (SNE) at the Informatics Institute, UvA, has split into three new research groups. This will enable better focus into each research field: Complex Cyber Infrastructure, MultiScale Networked Systems and Parallel Computing Systems.
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Dutch research institutions & Elsevier initiate Open Science partnership
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU), NWO and Elsevier have formed a novel partnership that includes publishing and reading services as well as the joint development of new open science services for disseminating and evaluating knowledge.
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CWI’s 25th Spin-off Officially Launches: Swat.engineering
Swat.engineering is the 25th startup to come out of CWI. It focuses on domain specific software engineering and serves clients in the field of finance, health and embedded.
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Critically Assessing AI Tools and Cultural Data for Digital Humanities Applications
An increasing amount of our rich cultural heritage are available in digital formats. Humanities scholars have therefore added AI and other computational techniques to their research methods. In her PhD thesis, Myriam Traub explores sources of bias in data and tools used by humanities scholars.
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Peter Bosman (CWI) Awarded €1mn NWO Open Technology Programme Grant
Peter Bosman’s project proposal DAEDALUS (Distributed and Automated Evolutionary Deep Architecture Learning with Unprecedented Scalability) has been accepted by NWO TTW through its Open Technology Programme.
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Thomas Kipf Awarded Doctorate Cum Laude and Online
UvA PhD student Thomas Kipf received his PhD cum laude after the first ever PhD defence in the Amsterdam Data Science community to take place entirely online.