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Paper Accepted at ICSA Companion 2026: International Conference on Software Architecture

Posted on March 24th, 2026 by Julia Janssen

Imagine a handful of companies which own every piece of infrastructure in your city. One company owns every road, every sign, every map. Thats their platform: they decide which streets are visible and where traffic flows. That is the state … Continue reading →

Posted in Research Spotlight, Research visits, The Network Institute

Sign up for the IWDS’26 before March 20!

Posted on March 15th, 2026 by Julia Janssen

Just a friendly reminder that March 26 the Network Institute will organize the fifth edition of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society. We are happy to invite researchers, students, and practitioners from all disciplines to participate in the Interdisciplinary … Continue reading →

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The new research partner: how generative AI is reshaping Science – Utrecht UMC

Posted on March 6th, 2026 by Julia Janssen

Ivano Malatova, director at the Network Institute, and Radu Apsan, Scientific Software Engineer at the Network Institute,  visited the Plastic Surgery Department at Utrecht UMC to present and discuss how Generative AI can be successfully used in Science. The title … Continue reading →

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For over ten years, the Network Institute has been studying the digital society, in an interdisciplinary approach. The institute brings together a unique combination of scientists from informatics, social sciences and humanities.
Network Institute: The hub for interdisciplinary research on the digital society