Parkinson's disease is a progressive brain disorder that is currently incurable. In a research project conducted by the UvA MMD TechHub, scientists from our Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences and Van 't Hoff ...

Most people use AI by asking it a question and judging its answer. But what if the AI did not simply respond. What if it pushed back?

Professor Somaya Ben Allouch of the Digital Interactions Lab (DIL) at the Informatics Institute has been awarded an NWO-KIC grant for the EQUITY consortium. The EQUITY consortium has been largely formed through the ...

Imagine a neighbourhood-sharing platform where AI helps decide which members are trustworthy. A resident declines to lend a drill to someone who has repeatedly failed to help others. Should the system see that ...

The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month: Nayara Albrecht, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the Department of Political Science.

Yingjun Du has received the PhD Award of the European Computer Vision Association (ECVA) for his dissertation, Learning to Learn with Less and Less. The award was presented at the European Conference on Computer ...

When pupils apply for secondary school in Amsterdam, they are asked to rank their preferred schools. But what if listing their genuine preferences is not the best way to receive a place? This question is at the heart ...

Als leerlingen zich in Amsterdam aanmelden voor het voortgezet onderwijs, wordt hen gevraagd hun voorkeursscholen te rangschikken. Maar wat als het aangeven van hun werkelijke voorkeuren niet de beste manier is om ...

Open government was supposed to bring citizens closer to politics. By making government information publicly available, people would be better informed about the decisions that affect their lives, while at the same ...

How can we ensure that digital government information becomes and remains accessible to everyone who has an interest in it? Erik Saaman, strategic advisor on digital archiving at the National Archives, will ...

The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month: Dasha Simons, an interdisciplinary PhD Candidate at the Human-Aligned Video-AI (HAVA) Lab.

Optimising medicines to improve their effectiveness is a key part of drug development. Currently, this often requires lengthy and repetitive lab work that doesn't always improve results. In a new research project of ...

The UvA robot football team whIRLwind won a bronze medal at the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing in August. The team finished third in the main robot football competition after a 3–1 victory over HyperYe, ...

Simone Saitta of the Quantitative Healthcare Analysis (QurAI) group at IvI and Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics of the Amsterdam University Medical Center has received a grant of €320,000 for his ...

Ana Lucic of Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems (SIAS) group at IvI and the NLP unit at ILLC has received a grant of €320,000 for her research proposal entitled 'Mechanistic Interpretability for Graph Machine ...