Authors: Sebastiaan Berendsen and Emma Beauxis-Aussalet AI systems are vulnerable for biases that can lead to unfair and harmful outcomes. Methods to detect such biases in AI systems rely on sensitive data. However, this reliance on sensitive data is problematic due to ethical and legal concerns. Sensitive data is essential Read more…
The HorizonEurope project HEDGE-IoT started January 2024. The 3.5 year project will build on existing technology to develop a Holistic Approach towards Empowerment of the DiGitalization of the Energy Ecosystem through adoption of IoT solutions. For VU, this project allows us to continue with the research and development initiated in Read more…
The world of semantic technologies and knowledge graphs came alive at SEMANTiCS 2023, held September 20-22, 2023, at the HYPERION Hotel in Leipzig, Germany. As an attendee of this vibrant conference, I was eager to explore the latest developments in the field and engage with experts from various domains. This Read more…
The award for the Best Network Institute Academy Assistant project for this year goes to the project titled “Between Art, Data, and Meaning – How can Virtual Reality expand visitors’ perspectives on cultural objects with colonial background?” This project was carried out by VU students Isabel Franke and Stefania Conte, Read more…
It has pleased NWO to award the HAICu consortium funding under the National Research Agenda programme. In the HAICu project, AI researchers, Digital Humanities researchers, heritage professionals and engaged citizens work together on scientific breakthroughs to open, link and analyze large-scale multimodal digital heritage collections in context. At VU, researchers from the Read more…
The InterConnect project gathers 50 European entities to develop and demonstrate advanced solutions for connecting and converging digital homes and buildings with the electricity sector. Machine Learning (ML) algorithms play a significant role in the InterConnect project. Most prominent are the services that do some kind of forecasting like predicting Read more…
Together with Angelica Maineri, UCDS’ own Shuai Wang wrote an article on the ODISSEI website on FAIR Implementation profiles in the Social Sciences. A FAIR Implementation Profile (FIP) is a collection of resources, services, and technologies adopted by a community to implement the FAIR principles. In their article “FAIR yes, Read more…
Last week, the renowned French philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist Bruno Latour passed away at age 75 (1947-2022). Latour is considered to be one of the most influential thinkers of modern-day science. His Actor-Network theory (ANT) and mediation theory are known to provide an alternative perspective to the famous subject-object dichotomy, Read more…
I believe we have made the first steps venturing into a new era of scientific publishing, and I explain what I mean by that in this blog post.
We are very proud to announce that this January, the Civic AI Lab [1] was awarded to be part of the UNESCO’s TOP 100 International List of Artificial Intelligence (henceforth: AI) solutions for sustainable development for the benefit of humanity [2]. The TOP 100 was created by the International Research Read more…