New ADS Partners for the Start of 2018

We are excited to announce that the start of 2018 marks two new partners for the Amsterdam Data Science Network. As of January 2018, the Faculty of Physical Activity, Sport and Nutrition, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) have joined our ecosystem as Bronze Partners. We are looking forward to the new collaborations and opportunities that these partnerships will bring.

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25 November 2022
CWI spin-off DuckDB Labs partners with Motherduck, which raises $47.5 million

CWI spin-off company DuckDB Labs helped create startup MotherDuck which aims to connect DuckDB to the cloud. MotherDuck sports some big names: its CEO is Jordan Tigani, founding engineer at Google’s BigQuery, Google’s fully managed data analysis platform. A big part of the $47.5 million funding comes from Andreessen Horowitz, a prominent venture capital firm, specialized in technology startups.
16 November 2022
Building an international research community: HHAI Conference 2023

Breaking ground as the first international conference on Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence, HHAI22 held its first-ever in-person meeting in Amsterdam in the summer of 2022, establishing the beginnings of an international research community. ADS contributed to the conference by hosting a Meetup around the topic of Hybrid Intelligence.
15 November 2022
Inaugural Speech Nanda Piersma

There are legal rules and ethical frameworks, but little or no practical guidance on responsible design. In her inaugural lecture “System error, please restart”, Nanda Piersma argues what ‘responsible’ means and how we can carry out the (further) development of IT systems in such a way that they earn our trust.

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