Seminar by Prof. Michał B. Paradowski in collaboration with LEARN! - This seminar by Michal B. Paradowski “Computational Social Network Analysis meets linguistics: From the diffusion of lexical innovation to second language acquisition” is presented in collaboration with LEARN! The last decades have seen a surge of applications of the theoretical … Continue reading 
Connected World Book Presentation - 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 
Research Lunch IXA Hosted by the Network Institute - 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 
Academy Project Spotlight: Protein Transformers - Supervisors Maurits Dijkstra and Peter Bloem with assistants Henriette Capel and Robin Weiler worked on an NI Academy Project (see here) which resulted in a 2022 paper published in Nature Scientific Reports. See: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19608-4 Proteins are the building blocks of … Continue reading 
Amsterdam Science and Innovation Award - 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 
Terminator 2 introduced by prof. Guszti Eiben - James Cameron’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” will be screened at the VU’s Rialto cinema in the NU building at 18:30 on Thursday 12th October Professor Guszti Eiben will introduce the classic. He is a full professor of Artificial Intelligence at … Continue reading 
Alice and Eve 2023 - 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 
Call for Nominations – Amsterdam AI Thesis Awards - 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 
Academy Assistants Projects and Positions 2023-24 - The Network Institute funded six Academy Assistant projects for this academic year. Each project is led by two PIs from different disciplines who can hire two Student Assistants (usually master’s students) to work on the project for one day per … Continue reading 
We are looking for new teammates - The institute is looking for new members for its operational teams, if you are interested in joining us, contact us at this email address: network.institute.beta@vu.nl. The profile we are looking for is: young researcher (from PhD candidate to associate prof) … Continue reading