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15 January 2024
Surgery? First your digital twin under the knife >
It seems like science fiction: on the 'digital twin' of a patient with a stroke or brain haemorrhage, testing what the best treatment is for this patient. For now, it is still future music.
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12 January 2024
Nanda Piersma stops as Responsible IT lecturer >
Nanda Piersma will step down as lecturer Responsible IT at the HvA from 1 January 2024, as she opts for a different work-life balance. Piersma will remain at the HvA as scientific director of the Centre of Expertise Applied Artificial Intelligence at the Digital Media & Creative Industries faculty.
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11 January 2024
Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi and Wendy Günther receive NWO research grant >
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded organizational scientists Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi and Wendy Günther a research grant of one million euro.
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11 January 2024
Augmedit, Ellogon.AI, Kepler Vision and Layco to regional preliminary round Zorginnovatieprijs 2024 >
The four most promising innovative scale-ups in healthcare have been announced. These care innovators and representatives from the region have a chance to win a spot in the finals of the National Zorginnovatieprijs 2024: the award for the most innovative scale-up in the field of care and well-being.
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11 January 2024
How AI shook up education and took work out of healthcare last year >
It is not that often that a technology turns entire professions upside down in a year, or actually shows the potential for the years to come. 2023 was the year when a lot of people started to see the power of artificial intelligence (AI).
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8 January 2024
Amsterdam UMC-led consortium secures €6.1M for AI in medical imaging project >
The AI4AI project has been awarded €6.1M to develop AI with the aim to help alleviate the high demand for specialised healthcare personnel by making the collection and interpretation of medical imaging more accessible.
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7 January 2024
How AI is increasingly influencing elections >
Marietje Schaake, director of technology policy at US university Stanford, outlines what the rise of AI means for elections.
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5 January 2024
Experts surprised at police use of AI techniques >
Police are experimenting with facial recognition technology while there are hardly any rules for it yet. This surprises experts.
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4 January 2024
Working at KPN through AI >
Seven companies, including KPN, have founded the Arbeidsmatchplatform. A social start-up that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to look for untapped potential in the labour market. This is important for the energy transition but also for the rollout of fibre optics.
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April 15 2024
How AI Can enhance ecosystems >
Sander Klous, a professor at UvA and a partner at KPMG, discusses in a recent article how artificial intelligence can be utilized to enhance data-analysis ecosystems.
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April 15th 2024
Report: ‘Generative AI in Journalism’ >
A new report titled ‘Generative AI in Journalism,’ produce in collaboration with The Asdsociated Press has been published by Ai, Media and Democracy. This comprehensive study surveys news industry professionals on their current use and future desires for generative AI, exploring the ethical and practical issues surrounding its responsible deployment.
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April 10 2024
AI in healthcare: ethical issues >
In an opinion piece from De Telegraaf, three medical researchers from Amsterdam UMC argue that the integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare is not only promising but also raises significant ethical and legal questions.
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April 5 2024
NWO funding for VU's DoPredict Project led by VU professor >
On March 26, 2024, the DoPredict research project, led by Professor of Biophotonics and Medical Imaging Marloes Groot at Vrije Universiteit (VU), received funding through the NWO's Open Technology Program. This project focuses on developing a system for quickly and easily predicting the outcomes of lung treatments by testing combinations of drugs on a small piece of patient tissue.
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April 5 2024
NWO AiNed Fellowship grant awarded to Filip Ilievski >
On March 21, 2024, Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence Filip Ilievski was awarded a 900k€ AiNed AI Fellowship for his project "Human-Centric AI Agents with Common Sense". The AiNed AI Fellowships are a competitive program by NWO designed to attract international AI talent to the Netherlands. This grant, along with internal and external co-funding, will enable Ilievski to assemble a team of six young researchers.
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