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Category Archives: Event

VR symposium: Let’s get virtual!

Posted on November 27th, 2019 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News, Tech Labs, The Network Institute, VRblog

VR Symposium @ VU

Posted on October 4th, 2019 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News, Tech Labs, The Network Institute, Uncategorised, VRblog

Network Institute End-of-the-year Event – July 2 @ 15:00

Posted on June 24th, 2019 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Academy Assistants, Event, News, The Network Institute

Upcoming VR meetings

Posted on March 26th, 2019 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News, The Network Institute, VRblog

The Network Institute hosts WebSci’18 at VU from 27-30 May 2018

Posted on May 25th, 2018 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News, The Network Institute

InNet presents at The Network Society Conference

Posted on March 15th, 2016 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

Reminder: Guide to the network society

Posted on March 11th, 2016 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

Southampton Web Science – Research Exchange Meeting

Posted on March 7th, 2016 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

“Organizing for Digital Innovation” workshop

Posted on February 25th, 2016 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

Guide to the network society

Posted on February 12th, 2016 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

Tech Labs part of the Tech020 event on Feb 4

Posted on January 26th, 2016 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

Prof. Ken McRae talks about “The Importance of Event Knowledge”

Posted on September 5th, 2015 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn (Stanford) talks about Immersive VR Sept 15

Posted on August 31st, 2015 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News, VRblog

€25.000 in vouchers for research collaborations

Posted on August 24th, 2015 by Marco Otte

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…

Posted in Event, News

Network Institute’s End of Year Event

Posted on June 30th, 2015 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

Report in the ICT4D Symposium

Posted on June 8th, 2015 by Marco Otte

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.

Posted in Event, News, RuralPoor

Vertoning ‘Ik ben Alice’ met paneldiscussie

Posted on May 29th, 2015 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News, Robotics

Enter and win a Industry-Research Collaboration Voucher worth € 5000

Posted on May 19th, 2015 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

Sino-Dutch Forum on Smart City – June 1

Posted on May 4th, 2015 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

International Symposium “Perspectives on ICT4D”

Posted on April 23rd, 2015 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

George Lakoff speaking at the VU, March 13

Posted on February 20th, 2015 by Marco Otte

“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 →

Posted in Event, News

Valedictory lecture Gerard Steen

Posted on December 3rd, 2014 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

Seminar: Prisoners of the Past? Time, Networks, and the Production of New Knowledge

Posted on October 9th, 2014 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

Critical Discourse Analysis at 20

Posted on August 29th, 2014 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

Play, Games and Power – Lecture by Eric Gordon

Posted on June 3rd, 2014 by Marco Otte
Posted in Event, News

12th Feb – PyLadies AMS at the VU

Posted on February 6th, 2014 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, Intertain Lab, News

Green-IT networking Event

Posted on November 13th, 2013 by Marco Otte

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 →

Posted in Event, News

Network Institute Annual Event 2013 Posters online

Posted on August 21st, 2013 by Marco Otte

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

Posted in Event, News

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