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AiNed Fellowship grants awarded to Dr Cristian Tejedor García and Dr Iacer Calixto

September 12, 2023

AiNed Fellowship grants awarded to Dr Cristian Tejedor García and Dr Iacer Calixto >

Leveraging exceptional AI talent is important to strengthen the national knowledge and training base in AI. We are therefore pleased to announce the two recent awards in the AiNed Fellowship grants programme to Dr Cristian Tejedor García and Dr Iacer Calixto. The AiNed Board warmly congratulates them on these awards and very much looks forward to their contribution to the AiNed programme and AI research in the Netherlands.

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Vacancy: Business Developer AI/Digitalisation @Amsterdam UMC

12 September 2023

Vacancy: Business Developer AI/Digitalisation @Amsterdam UMC >

Do you like to be: The enthusiastic driver of new collaborative public-private research on digitalization and the use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) in the medical domain?

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PhD Positions: Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence

September 11, 2023

PhD Positions: Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence >

Are you ready to create with purpose? The Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) is offering you the opportunity to work on real-world challenges with access to real data. Their ultimate goal is to make AI safe and trustworthy for the benefit of everyone. Collaboration is key. Are you in?

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Together we fix the internet!

September 11, 2023

Together we fix the internet! >

How can we bring public values back into the Internet, and what can you yourself contribute to this?

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Using generative AI tools in education

September 11, 2023

Using generative AI tools in education >

With the emergence of ChatGPT, there has been a lively discussion about the use of generative AI tools in education. To support teachers in using this technology, the Dutch AI Coalition's Scholing & Education working group has compiled two advisory documents.

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Podcast: What if AI learns from its own output, EU versus US and digital slaughterhouses

September 10, 2023

Podcast: What if AI learns from its own output, EU versus US and digital slaughterhouses >

What goes wrong when language models are trained mainly on their own output? Until recently, this seemed like a future possibility, but now it is a danger we should seriously consider. And can we create rules to prevent it?

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Building Models to Enable Greater use of AI in The Health Care System

7 September 2023

Building Models to Enable Greater use of AI in The Health Care System >

80% of all patient data is unstructured. Notes from a conversation with a GP, the evaluation of a specialist in a university medical centre or even a recommendation from a pharmacist. While this 'unstructured’ data is no problem for the human eye, it presents an unsurmountable challenge to an AI-algorithm.

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PhD Natural Language Processing for Health Data Science at UMC

6 September 2023

PhD Natural Language Processing for Health Data Science at UMC >

The UMC is looking for a motivated PhD student in the field of natural language processing with a specific interest in machine learning for health care who will work on the DataTools4Heart project.

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Announcement Two New ICAI Labs

6 September 2023

Announcement Two New ICAI Labs >

ICAI is expanding! In the past weeks, two new ICAI labs have launched. ICAI is happy to have them as a part of our ecosystem.

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Nanda Piersma stops as Responsible IT lecturer

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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Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi and Wendy Günther receive NWO research grant

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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Augmedit, Ellogon.AI, Kepler Vision and Layco to regional preliminary round Zorginnovatieprijs 2024

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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How AI shook up education and took work out of healthcare last year

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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Amsterdam UMC-led consortium secures €6.1M for AI in medical imaging project

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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