Deep learning networks underpin many of today's AI applications, such as image recognition. Those networks can still fail massively when they need to name an object, such as an animal. According to UvA researcher ...

The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month, we feature Chiara Piccoli, Research Associate and Data Scientist at the 4D Research Lab, Faculty of Humanities.

The 2024 edition of the annual ChemAI symposium, held 29 November in Lab42, was a great success. It attracted around 250 participants, completely filling the largest available conference room. It was also the closing ...

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to three UvA researchers. The laureates are: Ekaterina Shutova, Antonia Rowlinson and Corentin Coulais. These prestigious subsidies are personal and ...

The Spotlight introduces a different Data Science Centre Affiliate Member every month. This month: Max Paulus, Research Engineer at the FMG Research Lab.

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 ...

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 ...