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Jacintha Walters recently graduated from the HvA master's programme Applied Artificial Intelligence on a topical subject: the European AI Act, which comes into force at the end of 2023. She examined the extent to which a number of large and small companies are prepared for these regulations. On a number of points, that preparation still falls short, she finds in her thesis and in a paper, which will be out soon. "Better preparation is badly needed, because this is going to have as much impact as the AVG," she says.

This is an Invitation to the inaugural lecture of Professor Hannes Mühleisen. He is a Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Co-Founder and CEO of DuckDB and Senior Researcher at the CWI. Hannes will deliver his inaugural lecture on Thursday, September 28, 2023, at 3.45 p.m, entitled: “The Ancient Art of Data Management” at Radboud University, Nijmegen.

How is it that AI techniques for medical imaging are accurate in the lab, yet fail in practice?

Amsterdam AI welcomed the Minister for Digitalisation Alexandra van Huffelen and Alderman Alexander Scholtes for a working visit to LAB42. 

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

Amsterdam AI partners CWI, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the University of Amsterdam are involved in the HAICu project. This project has received funding of 10.3 million euros and focuses on connecting large-scale multimodal digital heritage collections. 

This is an Invitation to the inaugural lecture of Professor Hannes Mühleisen. He is a Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Co-Founder and CEO of DuckDB and Senior Researcher at the CWI.

The Faculty of Impact of the Netherlands is looking for you! Their work: turn science into impact. By supporting promising AI researchers of Dutch research institutes with a two-year fellowship. That’s two years to turn your breakthrough research into a business. But not just any business. It’s about business with a big impact. And for the record: a non-profit is a business too.

Dr. Andrea Cordaro (Institute of Physics & AMOLF), Henk van Voorst (Amsterdam UMC, location AMC) and Dr. Ruy Kortbeek (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences) received a Rubicon grant from NWO and ZonMW. This allows them to conduct research at an institution abroad.