What provides meaning in life and how do people define meaning? UvA professor of Digital Humanities Rens Bod, in collaboration with the newspaper Trouw and Ipsos I&O, designed the ‘Meaning-Seeker Test’ to discover ...

On 1 November Paola Grosso, appointed as Professor of Multiscale networks in the UvA Faculty of Science, delivered her inaugural lecture entitled: Connected.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded two Synergy Grants to UvA researchers. Computer scientist Ulle Endriss receives €2.4 for research into using technology to better engage citizens in democratic ...

To help ensure that this infrastructure is fit for purpose and serves researchers needs, Research IT together with the UvA Data Science Centre (DSC) is looking for early users to provide feedback.

Despite increased polarisation in society, how do we ensure that we can still intervene effectively to tackle major societal problems? Computational scientist Vítor Vasconcelos of the Informatics Institute explores ...

A team including IRLab researchers won the Best Paper Award at RecSys 2024: 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, which was held in October in Italy.

The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month: Dr. Fatemeh Karimi Nejadasl, Computer Vision and Machine Learning engineer.

Wat gebeurt er precies in ons hoofd, waardoor we ogenschijnlijk moeiteloos spraak en taal kunnen waarnemen, zelfs in lawaaierige situaties? Hoe is het mogelijk dat we razendsnel onze gedachten kunnen uitwisselen in ...

On Friday, 18 October, approximately 200 participants took part in dynamic workshops and presentations during Data Science Day, exploring the latest advancements in data science at UvA.

On Wednesday, 16 October, Peter-Paul Verbeek, rector magnificus of the University of Amsterdam, opened the HAVA-Lab, a research project focusing on the human alignment of video-AI. Meet the PhD candidates in this video.

How can you develop AI in such a way that it does not discriminate or consume large amounts of energy, but actually benefits society? A large-scale national AI initiative, housed at UvA's Informatics Institute, is ...

The University of Amsterdam is awarding honorary doctorates to ‘Virtual Human Twin’ researcher Liesbet Geris, filmmaker/visual artist Steve McQueen and historian/writer/filmmaker Bianca Stigter. Geris will receive ...

The call for ‘Research Software Engineering and Support’ seeks to identify and support innovative research data and software engineering projects that will advance data-driven research at the University of Amsterdam.

Talking to the perpetrator of a crime or at a memorial of a deceased person can help process grief or trauma. Using deepfake technology, you can now do that with a virtual avatar. This is safer than a real encounter, ...

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Starting Grant to computer scientist Dimitris Tzionas. The Starting Grant is a personal subsidy of approximately 1.5 million euros per project. The subsidy offers ...