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We are pleased to announce that our visitor, David Tena Cucala, will be delivering a talk titled Expressive Power of Monotonic Graph Neural Networks. When and where – Date: October 7th – Time: 12:00 – Location: NU-3B19 David Tena Cucala’s … Continue reading
The Network Institute invites its members and all VU students and staff to apply for the ECHO Academy Programme (https://echoeurope.eu/how-to-apply). The deadline is Sunday 22nd October. Starting in November 2024, ECHO kicks off its Academy in Amsterdam at Nxt Museum, … Continue reading
We would like to invite you to the upcoming Research Lunch organized by the Network Institute. Constanza Gajardo will present her research on Integrating AI in Local Newsrooms: Towards a global comparative approach to strategies, challenges, and insights. Constanza Gajardo … Continue reading
When: 1st October 3:30-5:30pm The NIAA funds 10-15 research positions which undertake projects leading to a proposal or published paper in one year. These projects aim to give valuable and paid research experience for master students. They are always multidisciplinary, often … Continue reading
The Network Institute is proud to announce six new Academy Assistant Projects for the 2024-2025 academic year. Each project is led by two researchers from different disciplines who can hire two Student Assistants (usually master’s students) to work on the … Continue reading
Greetings everyone! This is Lara Baseggio and Radu Nicolae joining the Networking Institute as technology developers for the following year. We are excited to embark in this journey and be part of the multidisciplinary research hub, hosted here, at the … Continue reading
We will celebrate a year of insightful Academy Assistant Projects on Wednesday, July 3rd at NU-04A06. Come and join us to see what this year’s projects were about and take part in a special edition Network Institute Research Bingo! Our … Continue reading
We would like to invite you to the upcoming Research Lunch organised by the Network Institute, with a talk by Reshmi Pillai (Department of Communication Science, VU) to facilitate exchange between researchers at the VU across disciplines and institutions. When: … Continue reading
The Firefox Product team warmly invites students to attend Mozilla Festival House 2024! Mozilla Festival is a unique hybrid: part art, tech, and society convening, part maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane … Continue reading
Discover the transformative power of open hardware in academia at this university-wide gathering. When: 18th June 2024, 2:30-5pm (followed by drinks) Where: Aurora room (Main building VU) Register here Open hardware, or open-source hardware, is hardware whose design is made … Continue reading
The Forum for Young Scientists (FYS) is hosting a free, four-hour interactive workshop giving tips and tricks for interdisciplinary research. When: 29th May, 1-5pm (with snacks and a 30min break, networking and drinks afterwards) Where: VU campus (room to be … Continue reading
The European University Association (EUA) is hosting two webinars on strategies for AI implementation in higher education. The first focuses on a more strategic approach, looking both at institutional approaches and broader models for developing strategies. This will include frameworks … Continue reading
We would like to invite you to the upcoming Research Lunch organised by the Network Institute to facilitate exchange between researchers at the VU across disciplines and institutions. Digital phenotyping: chances and challenges: With Karin Bogdanova (TU Delft), Janika Thielecke (TNO) … Continue reading
We had about 75 attendees joining our informative event about the European Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) on 25th April. This also included many students who are interested in the implications of this landmark regulation: is it too relaxed or too … Continue reading
Generative AI has enabled the production of misinformation and disinformation on an unprecedented scale. As advertised by the VU, Profesor Wael AbdAlmageed will present the latest methods his group are creating to prevent these threats to child safety, public opinion, … Continue reading
The Digital Science Center (DiSC) is an interdisciplinary research unit at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, with a similar focus and goals as the Network Institute. To foster exchange and research connections between both units, NI members are invited to … Continue reading
Today, organizations blend human intuition with data insights for better performance. Whether in customer support or finance, combining gut feeling with analytics or experienced decision-makers with algorithms enhances outcomes. What does it look like in practice? As advertised by the … Continue reading
We are inviting you to the upcoming “Generative AI for Research” lunch, co-hosted by the Network Institute and the KIN Center for Digital Innovation. This event aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration among VU researchers and explore the potential of using … Continue reading
The Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) is already in place in the European Union. This piece of regulation is a landmark and a unique law worldwide. Its recent approval and its application, since past February, is accompanied by many questions … Continue reading
The Network Institute is organising a full-day event on the theme of inclusive technologies. When: 1st March, 9am-3:30pm after which there will be a bingo and drinks Where: at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Register for free here Feeds and frontpages … Continue reading
Eep Talstra, emeritus professor of Old Testament at the Faculty of Religion and Theology, after whom the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) has been named, has written a new book that will be published by Amsterdam University … Continue reading
We would like to draw your attention to this conference on the future of digital wellbeing. When: on 1st and 2nd of February. Registration deadline: January 31 (see bottom of the page) Where: Hosted at KNAW’s Trippenhuis venue in Amsterdam (Kloveniersburgwal … Continue reading
The third instalment of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society (IWDS) will take place at the VU on March 1st 2024. The theme is Inclusive Technologies. A call for participation will be published soon. IWDS’24 will be followed by … Continue reading
We are excited to invite you to the HumanCLAIM 2024 Workshop (see last year’s successful edition here), a one-day conference dedicated to the exploration of cognitively motivated cross-lingual language models. When: January 11, 2024 (9:30 AM – 4:30 PM) Where: … Continue reading
We would like to invite you to the next Research Lunch organized by the Network Institute to facilitate exchange between researchers at the VU across faculties and disciplines. When: 14th December, 12-13:30 Where: NU-3B05 The University Library will illustrate the many opportunities the … Continue reading
As part of the Connected World theme which the NI is supporting, we invite you to a whole-day event on the 8th December on educating for societal impact, decolonizing the digital society, knowledge production and indigenous knowledge as well as … Continue reading
The Amsterdam Law & Tech Institute (ALTI) along with the NI will soon host three visiting researchers from Mexico: Dr. Nora del Carmen Osuna Millan (Computer Science), Dr. Virginia Berenice Niebla Zatarain (Computer Science), and Dr. Jesus Manuel Niebla Zatarain … Continue reading
This year marks a significant milestone: the 75th anniversary of the School of Business and Economics at Vrije Universiteit. Join us in shaping a vision that will guide the School of Business and Economics through the next 75 years. We … Continue reading
Dear VU Researchers and Colleagues, Hereby we would like to invite you to the upcoming Research Lunch organised by the Network Institute to facilitate exchange between researchers at the VU across disciplines and institutions. When: 9th of November, 12.00-13.30 Where: … Continue reading
On Monday, November 6, James Pustejovsky from Brandeis University will visit the VU and CLTL. We would like to extend the invitation to members of the NI. To get a sense of how many people will attend events throughout the … Continue reading
In the week of November 20 the Network Institute is hosting Carina König. She is the coordinator of the Digital Science Center of the University of Innsbruck. The initiative will provide an opportunity to explore in depth what interdisciplinary research units … Continue reading
The University of Twente and the VU’s synergistic “Creating Secure Societies” impact coalition is culminating in another meeting next month: When: 22nd November 2023, 2-6pm Where: University of Twente, at the Designlab, room LEARN-X Sign-up: here This synergy (find out … Continue reading
Tom Williams from the Colorado School of Mines will be giving an interdisciplinary talk at the VU – details below. Would be great to engage with an audience in the humanities and the social sciences in addition to CS folks. … Continue reading
What is the feasibility of live-mapping the differential use of religious texts in social media to identify religious issues present across digitally mediated culture? How can we mine social media such as X in the age of restrictions? How can … Continue reading
On Tuesday, October 24 from 12:00-13:00 the Amsterdam Business Research Institute (ABRI) Lunch Seminar hosted by Dr. Franz Strich from the Deakin University Melbourne will take place in the main building room HG-13A24. He will present an ongoing research project … Continue reading
As part of a Network Institute research visit, we are organizing a research symposium on November 6, 2023 entitled ‘The role of language in engaging audiences in new (quantum) technology’. We would like to invite you to join the day. Where: Restaurant De Bosbaan, Bosbaan … Continue reading
The Network Institute’s Academy Assistant (NIAA) program is kicking off its 14th year on the 11th October! When: 11th October 3:15-5:15pm Where: NU4A67 The NIAA funds 10-15 research positions which undertake projects leading to a proposal or published paper in … Continue reading
Michal B. Paradowski, from the Institute of Applied Linguistics (University of Warsaw) is presenting the seminar: “Computational Social Network Analysis meets linguistics: From the diffusion of lexical innovation to second language acquisition” in collaboration with LEARN! When: October 26th 10:30-12:00 … Continue reading
The research institute for Culture, Cognitive, History and Heritage (CLUE+) and the Network Institute are proud of being the foundational institutes of the “Connected World” profile theme. As part of this initiative, we are presenting a new book about the … Continue reading
Hereby we would like to invite you to the next Research Lunch organised by the Network Institute to facilitate exchange between researchers at the VU across disciplines and institutions. For the research lunch on the 21st of September, we invited representatives from the Innovation Exchange Amsterdam … Continue reading
IXA (aka: the VU office for valorizing our research) and AmSIA (Amsterdam Science and Innovation Awards) are organizing an event/competition where you can network and pitch your own project with the chance to win one of three 10,000 euro cash … Continue reading
We welcome everyone to our free one-day workshop for celebrating women studying and working in computing! Alice & Eve aims to bring together talents in the field of computing. The fourth edition of this workshop will be hosted on 27 … Continue reading
The Amsterdam AI network is seeking nominations for the Amsterdam AI Thesis Award 2023 (deadline: 14th of September). We are looking for thesis nominations that present exciting and innovative work in the area of AI and Data Science research, and … Continue reading
The “Virtual Reality Symposium: Let’s Get Virtual!” was hosted on the 22nd of June by the XR community and Network Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The public event gathered researchers from the XR community who presented their cutting-edge work over … Continue reading
Hack4Her is a tech event organized by Isabella Venancia Grdner (STORM), Katja Tuma (Assistant Professor at the Computer Science department), and Mylène Brown-Coleman (STORM). We happily sponsored the event, which turned out to be a great success! Hack4Her is a … Continue reading
Dear members of the Network Institute, You are invited to the annual, traditional, shiny, fun, and completely unmissable Network Institute end-of-the-academic-year event, taking place: *** Tuesday July 11th, 15.00 hrs, NU building – Room 3B05 *** The highlight of the … Continue reading
Another research lunch is coming up, a special edition in the VU botanical garden with the aim of fostering collaboration between Computer Science and Social Sciences! We recognize the immense potential that lies at the intersection of these two disciplines. … Continue reading
We are organizing a Virtual Reality Symposium: Let’s Get Virtual! The morning of June 22 will be filled with speakers and conversations about VR research at the VU. Learn about what other scholars are doing and what facilities we have … Continue reading
The next research lunch organised by the Network Institute is dedicated to the Call for the Network Institute Academy Assistant Projects! What? NIAA information & match-making When? 11th of May, 12:00-13:30 Where? MF-A311 Do you have an idea for a … Continue reading
How to improve diversity and inclusion policies by reading the body? The Connected World conference “Embodied Experiences” invites participants to use Corpoliteracy, as proposed by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, as a tool to explore the intersections of identity and body … Continue reading
Hi all, hereby we would like to invite you to the next NI research lunch on human-robot interaction! Event Timing: 12:00-13:30, Thursday, April 13th Event Location: NU-4A06 Contact us at: t.karacic@vu.nl During this research lunch, we would like to connect … Continue reading
The Network Institute’s (NI) Academy Assistants program (NIAA) is now entering its 14th year. Initially funded through a KNAW grant and aimed at combining social sciences and computer science research, it has since been adopted by the Network Institute and … Continue reading
The Network Institute initiated a new “NI Research visits” program. With this program, the Network Institute offers scholars an opportunity to spend up to one month at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam to conduct research on the themes of digital society … Continue reading
Connected World is one of four central profile themes of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. To promote research and education in this theme, we have now set up the CONNECTED WORLD SENIOR FELLOWSHIP, starting in the academic year of 2022/23. We are … Continue reading
On 6th July 2022, we had the Network Institute End-of-the-Year Event 2022. The event was chaired by Victor de Boer. The event started off by introducing various initiatives, and vision of the Network Institute. All the events and activities of NI … Continue reading
The workshop on Digital Nomads – Living in a Society of Digital Employees will discuss how society, employers and employees may deal with the new way of working in the digital society, and how to contribute from a scientific perspective. … Continue reading
SURF and the Network Institute will co-host XR ON TOUR event. The Network Institute will have VR-demos ready at the venue location and in its Game Cella’ Lab where you can take a look at the XR-facilities the Network Institute … Continue reading
The Network Institute’s (NI) Academy Assistants program (NIAA) is now entering its 13th year. Initially funded through a KNAW grant and aimed at combining social sciences and computer science research, it has since been adopted by the Network Institute and … Continue reading
Please join us at the Connecting Worlds Conference on 30th June and 1st July 2022. The Connecting Worlds Conference brings together VU researchers in the broad theme of the Connected World with guests from abroad from VU’s many international cooperation … Continue reading
As you probably already know, the Network Institute operates in the context of the Connected World profile theme of the VU. To encourage Connected World research, VU Amsterdam makes additional resources available to its staff each year by organising internal … Continue reading
Last week was the launch event of the Use-Me Art and Science project. The project challenges the VU community to think critically about the recursive relationship between technology and society. For example, what are the opportunities and threats that technology … Continue reading
The Network Institute is organizing TED Talk training sessions in May in which participants will learn how to make their message more accessible and convincing when speaking in public. The presentation skills you will gain are immediately useful for several … Continue reading
We are very happy to announce the Use-me project launch event On April 13. This event is a must-attend for everyone interested in digital society, artificial intelligence, creative coding, and interactive art. We have a stellar lineup at the event … Continue reading
Yesterday (23/03/2022), we had a ‘Poster Presentation’ session by the Academy Assistants for their projects. We had 7 enthusiastic teams, each with two Academy Assistants and two Supervisors who presented the progress in their interdisciplinary work using amazing posters. Many … Continue reading
Last week we placed a Interactive screen with sensors in the main hall of the NU building at Vrije Universiteit (VU). What could be displayed on the large interactive screen you are seeing in the main hall of the NU … Continue reading
Cyber Security research and education in the Global South, for example in Indonesia, has many (research) challenges. The legal, political and technological landscape in Indonesia is different from the European. Design of Cyber Security education in Indonesia, raises many questions, … Continue reading
The call for papers of the 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society is out! This workshop, organized by the Network Institute, aims to bring together researchers from different backgrounds interested in the Digital Society and to give them the … Continue reading
Successful VR symposium hosted by Network Institute “Let’s get virtual!” showed the fascinating diversity if VR research at the VU Virtual Reality (in VR) is an exciting new medium that provides a compelling new user experience. Unlike other existing media, … Continue reading
The Network Institute’s VR group invites to to join our morning symposium on VR in research and education at the VU. We have an interesting list of speakers introducing you to their take and use on Virtual Reality in academia. … Continue reading
Dear members of the Network Institute, You are invited to the annual, traditional, original, nutritional, but above all unmissable Network Institute end-of-the-academic-year event, taking place: *** Tuesday July 2nd, 15.00 hrs, Tuinzaal (W&N) *** We have a very interesting program … Continue reading
We are pleased to inform you about the upcoming VR meetings with three special hosts in the field of VR: Unfortunately cancelled – April 25th from 15:00 – 16:00, with Tara Donker Currently, her main focus of research is investigating … Continue reading
The Network Institute hosts the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, 27-30 May 2018. It is a wonderful opportunity and a great pleasure for the Network Institute to be able host the 10th ACM conference on Web Science, WebSci’18, at … Continue reading
One group presenting at the VU Lustrum (see below) will show off their demo of visualizing networked data using the Network Institute as source. Check out their online demo at: http://www.few.vu.nl/~jfn540/socialweb/ The VU is organising next Friday, 18 March, 12h30-17h30. … Continue reading
We warmly recommend the event that the VU is organising next Friday, 18 March, 12h30-17h30. http://www.vu.nl/nl/lustrum/lustrumconferenties/cw/index.aspx With speakers like Piek Vossen (on his NewsReader), Herbert Bos (on white hackers), and Anna Bon (on ICT4Development), and with workshops on Social Media … Continue reading
Southampton Web Science – Network Institute Amsterdam Research Exchange Meeting Thursday 31 March and Friday 01 April 2016 at VU Amsterdam We invite you to an interdisciplinary research exchange meeting between young researchers and senior staff of the Southampton U … Continue reading
KIN Research hosts international workshop ‘Organizing for Digital Innovation’ – March 11 & 12 19 February 2016 Several of the world’s thought leaders in (managing) digital innovation will meet in Amsterdam on 11 and 12 March at the workshop ‘Organizing … Continue reading
In de tweede lustrumconferentie op 18 maart staan de digitalisering en de invloed op de mens centraal. Informatici, geesteswetenschappers en sociale wetenschappers kijken naar de toekomst. Willen we allemaal een robot in huis? Ga jij naar de online kerk? Ben … Continue reading
At the “unconference” Tech020 on February 4, 2016, the Tech Labs of the Network Institute will demo a few of the currently in use Virtual Reality applications using the Oculus Rift (DK2 for insiders). For more information on the event … Continue reading
The Marie Curie COGVIM project presents: The Importance of Event Knowledge in the Organization and Structure of Semantic Memory Invited speaker: prof. Ken McRae Department of Psychology, and Brain & Mind Institute University of Western Ontario, Canada SEPTEMBER 11TH 2015, … Continue reading
As part of the unfolding activities of Network Iinstitute’s VR group, we would be excited if you like to save the date for an upcoming presentation by Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, former Stanford Ph.D. of Jeremy Bailenson. Grace will talk about “Persuasive … Continue reading
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. Read more…
The Network Institute’s End of Academic Year Event will take place this Wednesday, July 1st, 15h in the Kerkzaal on the top floor of the VU main building. We have an exciting programme: 15h00 – 15h20 – Johan Hoorn speaks … Continue reading
The report on the latest ICT for Development symposium, held on the May 22, 2015 at the VU University, is now available. Click here to download the PDF.
De documentaire ‘Ik ben Alice’ over sociale zorgrobots in de zorg, winnaar van de NWO-KNAW Eurekaprijs voor wetenschapscommunicatie 2015, is op 16 juni a.s. op de VU te zien. Aansluitend op de vertoning zal een debat plaatsvinden in de vorm van … Continue reading
On May 26 (3:30pm-6pm, Intertain Lab, W&N Building, VU University) the Network Institute, the Amsterdam Economical Board and IXA organize a network session between research and Tech Labs on the one hand and industry and civil organisations on the other … Continue reading
On June 1, the cities of Amsterdam and Beijing will jointly co-host the 2nd Sino-Dutch Forum on Smart City. The Network Institute is one of the organising partners for this event. The theme of “Smart Cities” is rapidly becoming a … Continue reading
The VU Network Institute, the Netherlands Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems SIKS, the VU Computer Science Department and the International Office at the VU University Amsterdam kindly invite you to attend the Second International Symposium “Perspectives on ICT4D” … Continue reading
“The severe limitations of big data analysis of linguistic corpora” George Lakoff, famous for his work on metaphors in language and psychology will be speaking at the VU on Friday, March 13 from 14:00-15:00 in HG12A-00 on the 12th floor … Continue reading
On Tuesday 9 December, 15.45 hrs, in the Aula of the VU University, Gerard Steen will hold his valedictory lecture on the occasion of his departure from the VU and move to the UvA. Professor Steen is the founding director … Continue reading
The Department of Organization Sciences and the Network Institute cordially invite you to a research seminar with guest speaker Ajay Mehra (University of Kentucky). PRISONERS OF THE PAST? TIME, NETWORKS, AND THE PRODUCTION OF NEW KNOWLEDGE We examine how the … Continue reading
The CDA 20+ symposium, an initiative of the Amsterdam Critical Discourse Community (ACDC, currently hosted at VU-University) in collaboration with the research group Institutional Discourse at the University of Amsterdam (ACLC), will take place on 8-9 September in Amsterdam. After … Continue reading
We are happy to invite you to the fifth PyLadies Amsterdam meetup (http://www.meetup.com/PyLadiesAMS/events/156263982/). Our male colleagues are also very welcome… provided they program in Python 😉 This time the event will be hosted at the VU in the IntertainLab (http://www.cs.vu.nl/en/about-the-department/intertain-lab). … Continue reading
On November 14th the VU will host the Green-IT networking event in the Intertain Lab (S111) starting at 15:45. The program is as follows: 15:45 – 16:00 Cerios Green 16:00 – 16:15 StatiqCooling 16:15 – 16:30 HvA 16:30 – 16:45 … Continue reading
We’ve starting posting all the posters that were presented at the Network Institute Annual Event this year. As more posters come in we will update the page. So check it out under Research->Posters->Annual Event 2013