Abstract Concepts: Debating Their Structure, Processing, and Modeling Description On which dimensions of meaning do abstract and concrete concepts differ? How does perceptual experience affect abstract concept processing and representation? What is the role of language in shaping and indexing … Continue reading →

Scientists of the Network Institute (Vrije University Amsterdam, Tibor Bosse) and the Game Studies master program (UvA, Sander Bakkes) have create a new platform. A collaboration of scientists who are interested in Applied Gaming, or creating video games for purposes … Continue reading →

Two totally different disciplines meet. Philisopher Arianna Betti and Computer Scientist Stefan Slobach are collaborating in scientific research. But how does such a collaboration work? Stefan Slobach gives a behind-the-scenes interview [more… (in Dutch)] Stefan Slobach Arianna Betti

The past is a puzzle of which we lost most pieces and miss the art cover. Maxime Durand will introduce us to the unique method developed by the Ubisoft teams working on the Assassins Creed. They mastered to interpret the … Continue reading →

The 2015 annual report of the Metaphor Lab is now available from their website.

On Sunday 6 March, Mark Hoogendoorn (Computational Intelligence Group at the VU) and Heleen Riper (Professor of e-Mental Health at the Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences at the VU) were interviewed for Radio Swammerdam, the scientific radio program of … Continue reading →

The recent national evaluation report on the quality of Computer Science research in The Netherlands speaks very positively about the role of the Network Institute. The Network Institute is mentioned repeatedly in the evaluation of the Computer Science research groups … Continue reading →

Steeds meer mensen zijn online verbonden via het World Wide Web. Welke invloed heeft dat op onze sociale contacten? Willen we allemaal een robot in huis? Ga jij naar de online kerk? Ben je pas veilig als je denkt als … Continue reading →

Network Institute helps to organise the AUC “Internet Research Fair”, with participation by our members Lora Aroyo, Wouter van Atteveldt, Sally Wyatt, Peter van den Besselaar and Frank van Harmelen. The Fair starts on February 29 and ends on March … Continue reading →

The Dutch National Library KB has decided to include the website of the Network Institute in its permanent digital archive, as part of a select collection of 8400 sites that are permanently archived and made available for the public  with … Continue reading →

The Amsterdam Applied Gaming Research Group Community, a collaboration between the VU, UvA and HvA, have opened their brand new web site. Don’t forget to take a look here!

  The VU Network Institute awarded five research-business collaboration proposals with a voucher of € 5.000 each. Businesses-research matches were made with  2CoolMonkeys, Konnektid, Akvo.org, ETCBC and Eigen Werk. A successful matchmaking event in May paved the way for this … Continue reading →

Last week, from Sunday evening 14 June until Friday evening 19 June, 31 PhD students and post doc researchers from all over the world attended the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam Summer School “Methods for Metaphor Identification and Analysis”. It was an … Continue reading →

Martine Coene en Paul Govaerts winnen Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award 2015 De prijs voor innovatieve ideeën van alle Amsterdamse kennisinstellingen en onderzoeksinstituten Paul Govaerts en Martine Coene van de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen aan de VU zijn de winnaars van … Continue reading →

Two Network Institute members do a TEDx talk on quantum logic for knowledge representation.

The Network Institute helping to organise a debate on the opportunites and risks of Artificial Intelligence, in De Balie (Leidseplein) on 21 April, 20h. See the poster for more information, or http://www.deingenieur.nl/agenda/agenda-item/kunstmatige-intelligentie-kans-of-risico also to sign-up.

On March 13, 2015, George Lakoff held a guest lecture at the VU entitled: “Why linguists are needed: The severe limitations big data analysis of linguistic corpora.” His lecture is now available online here: http://av-media.vu.nl/VUMedia/Play/81ed312e243a4cd4aa1101bb3dab80a41d

The Marie Curie funded COGVIM project has just kicked off, led by dr. Marianna Bolognesi (UvA), and supervised by prof. Gerard Steen (UvA). The aim of the project is to compare structure and functioning of the visual and the verbal … Continue reading →

The Metaphor Lab Amsterdam, headed by Prof. Gerard van Steen is now established as a formal affiliation of the Network Institute. All Metaphor Lab members will be members of the Network Institute, with the same rights and duties and access … Continue reading →

The Network Institute is proud to announce that its director, prof. Frank van Harmelen,  has been appointed as member of the oldest “learned society” of The Netherlands, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). The KHMW has 450 … Continue reading →

One of the research groups of the Network Institute, the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer, has been nominated for the prestigious DH Awards 2014 in the category “Best DH Tool or Suite of Tools” for its project SHEBANQ. … Continue reading →

       In the spring of 2015 the Network Institute will organize a networking session between researchers and the Tech Labs of the university and companies and CSOs from outside the academic world. The aim is to facilitate and … Continue reading →

Prof. dr. Marleen Huysman and Hans Berends (ILI) together with a consortium of researchers from KIN research (Fleur Deken, Maura Soekijad, Frans Feldberg) and Industrial Design, TU Delft (Dirk Snelders, Gerda Gemser and Maaike Kleinsmann), received an NWO grant as … Continue reading →

Network Institute mini-workshop with Prof. Ken Forbus on Reasoning by Analogy this Friday (12th December), 15h-17h, C6.16, FEW building, VU Campus. Prof Ken Forbus has been one of the leading figures in Artificial Intelligence research for over 30 years, dating … Continue reading →

On Monday 6 October 2014, 15h30-17h00, Cultuurcentrum Griffioen, Uilenstede 106, 1183 AM Amstelveen VU scientist and prominent Network Institute member Johan Hoorn will speak on his reseach at the VU, including the SELEMCA project. Participants will discuss the involvement of … Continue reading →

Prominent Netwerk Instituut lid Peter Kerkhof is benoemd tot hoogleraar Sociale media. Zijn onderzoek gaat over het gebruik van sociale media door organisaties. In zijn onderzoek wil hij de voor- en nadelen van het gebruik van sociale media voor organisaties … Continue reading →

Patricia Lago has started a new Sustainability Urban Lab with OMALA and Green IT Amsterdam. OMALA, VU University Amsterdam and Green IT Amsterdam are developing a sustainability urban lab to strengthen the innovative and sustainability vision and plans of the … Continue reading →

NWO Smart Disaster Governance project The proposal is called “Enhancing smart disaster governance: Assessing the potential of the net-centric approach.” The main applicant and coordinator of the project is dr.ir. Kees Boersma (he is a member of the NI, faculty … Continue reading →

He will be part of a select group of researchers who have all been chosen based on their research achievements. Prof. Frank van Harmelen has been admitted as member of the prestigious association of leading European scientists Academia Europaea (the Academy … Continue reading →

Professor Rob van der Mei (mathematics) is nominated for the Huibregtsen Prize 2014. The Huibregtsen Prize is granted for scientific research in the Netherlands that is remarkably innovative and has a high societal impact. The winner will be announced on … Continue reading →

Prof. Jane Hunter (Director of the eResearch Lab at the University of Queensland, Australia) is visiting VU for 6 months till early Dec 2014. Contact: j.hunter@uq.edu.au Room: U356 Background: http://staff.itee.uq.edu.au/jane/         Current/recent projects include the following: e-Social … Continue reading →

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS & DIGITAL INNOVATION VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics and Digital Innovation (tenure track), in the Department of Information Systems, Logistics and Innovation at the Faculty of Economics … Continue reading →

The Network Institute is sponsoring a number of PhD students to participate in this years Web Science Summerschool, to be held 20-26 July in Southampton, UK. The Network Institute will pay your participation fee, which covers all your local expenses: … Continue reading →

Advance vacancies for 2 Academy Assistants The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) and the Computational Lexicology and Terminology Lab (CLTL) of the Faculty of Arts have a vacancy for a 2 Academy Assistants (5 months, 0.2 rte) for … Continue reading →

On 16 May 2014, the symposium “Perspectives on ICT for Development” (ICT4D) was held at VU University Amsterdam. The event featured international speakers from different backgrounds, who were asked to present their perspective on the principles, practice and scientific background … Continue reading →

Our Oceans Challenge is a global acceleration platform for new ocean ventures launching on June 3rd. With a coalition of corporate- and knowledge partners we want to make ocean opportunities happen by connecting people with brilliant ideas for clean and … Continue reading →

The book “From Text to Political Positions – Text analysis across disciplines” edited by Bertie Kaal, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof, was recently published. From Text to Political Positionsaddresses cross-disciplinary innovation in political text analysis for party positioning. Drawing … Continue reading →

Speech technology for African languages: opportunities, challenges and recent progress Guest researcher talk: Prof. Dr. Etienne Barnard (North-West University, South Africa) Fri 09 May 2014, 14.30-15.30h, Intertain Lab Network Institute (WN-S111) Prof. Etienne Barnard is a partner in a research … Continue reading →

The Network Institute, Computer Science Department and International Office of VU organize a symposium on ICT4D, the quickly growing field of practice and study how Information and Communication Technologies influence and may contribute to social and economic development in the … Continue reading →

AmCAT workshops@VU: 9 April (beginner), 16 April (advanced) I will be giving two workshops for AmCAT users in April at the VU Amsterdam. The workshops are open to anyone interested, but please mail me if you want to attend either … Continue reading →

We are pleased to invite you to the CLUE-Network Institute Day on the 14th of February from 14:00 till 17:00 at 06A-10. Please register for this meeting at http://tinyurl.com/CLUE-NI-day before the 3rd of February 2014.

VISMET: a corpus of visual metaphors It is the aim of this project to investigate the actual possibility to create a repository of visual metaphors (still images) that can be accessed by academic researchers under specific regulations, for scientific and … Continue reading →

Meet your future: Green-IT networking event for students a success Students and industrial partners were enthusiastic about a networking event that was organized on November 14, 2013 by the Computer Science department (dr. Patricia Lago, Software and Services) in collaboration … Continue reading →

The Netwerk Instituut, Orange Labs, World Resources Institute and Reseau Marp Burkina Faso present “The Web of VOICES” at the European Development Days #EDD13 In Brussel, 26/11/13. Best practice on Voice-based mobile services for social development (FP7 project 2010-13) Mobile … Continue reading →

Hoe invloedrijk is een wetenschappelijk artikel? Sociale media zijn een serieuze aanvulling aan het worden op de traditionele manieren om te tellen hoe vaak een artikel wordt geciteerd. Lees het hele artikel.

Dear members of the Network Institute, We’re proud to announce the NI Academy Assistants Kick-off meeting, which will take place this Tuesday October 29, at 16.00 hrs in the “Tuinzaal” (W&N building V-002, left of entrance 1081). The meeting will … Continue reading →