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
Category Archives: Event
Aurora workshop on “Digital nomads: living in a society of digital enterprises”
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
XR ON TOUR!
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
Call for Network Institute Academy Assistant Projects 2022
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
Connecting Worlds Conference: 1st Announcement
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
Two new calls for funding on the Connected World profile theme
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
Launch event of the Use-Me Art and Science projects!
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
TED talks training sessions at the Network Institute
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
Use-me launch event on April 13th at NU!
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
Poster Presentation Session: Academy Projects 2021
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
The Use-me project update: Interactive screen placed
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
Seminar “Cyber Security in and for the Global South”
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
1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society
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
VR symposium: Let’s get virtual!
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
VR Symposium @ VU
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
Network Institute End-of-the-year Event – July 2 @ 15:00
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
Upcoming VR meetings
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 WebSci’18 at VU from 27-30 May 2018
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
InNet presents at The Network Society Conference
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
Reminder: Guide to the network society
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 – Research Exchange Meeting
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
“Organizing for Digital Innovation” workshop
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
Guide to the network society
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
Tech Labs part of the Tech020 event on Feb 4
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
Prof. Ken McRae talks about “The Importance of Event Knowledge”
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
Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn (Stanford) talks about Immersive VR Sept 15
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
€25.000 in vouchers for research collaborations
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…
Network Institute’s End of Year Event
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
Report in the ICT4D Symposium
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.
Vertoning ‘Ik ben Alice’ met paneldiscussie
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
Enter and win a Industry-Research Collaboration Voucher worth € 5000
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
Sino-Dutch Forum on Smart City – June 1
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
International Symposium “Perspectives on ICT4D”
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
George Lakoff speaking at the VU, March 13
“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
Valedictory lecture Gerard Steen
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
Seminar: Prisoners of the Past? Time, Networks, and the Production of New Knowledge
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
Critical Discourse Analysis at 20
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
Play, Games and Power – Lecture by Eric Gordon
12th Feb – PyLadies AMS at the VU
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
Green-IT networking Event
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
Network Institute Annual Event 2013 Posters online
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