Machine Learning group news

NWA grant for Sander Bohté

New AI research project focuses on brain-like systems for safer smart vehicles.

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Breakthrough in energy efficient artificial intelligence

Thanks to a mathematical breakthrough, AI applications can become a hundred to a thousand times more energy efficient. This will make it possible to put much more elaborate AI in chips, enabling …

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CWI and INRIA use AI to better predict harmful solar storms

Extreme solar storms can have destructive effects on communications and electrical power grids. To improve space weather forecasting systems Mandar Chandorkar combined AI and data from space missions. He defends his thesis …

CWI and INRIA use AI to better predict harmful solar storms

The brain as a computer

On Wednesday 6 November 2019 Sander Bohte (CWI and UvA) will hold his inaugural lecture “the Brain as a computer” as a professor by special appointment of Cognitive Neurobiology.

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Sander Bohté and Kees Oosterlee awarded with NWO Indo-Dutch funding

Sander Bohté (Machine Learning) and Kees Oosterlee (Scientific Computing) have been awarded with funding from NWO’s Indo-Dutch joint research programme for ICT.

Sander Bohté and Kees Oosterlee awarded with NWO Indo-Dutch funding

Sander Bohté, professor by special appointment of Cognitive Neurobiology at UvA

Sander Bohté (1974) has been named professor by special appointment of Cognitive Neurobiology, specialising in Computational Neuroscience, at the University of Amsterdam (UvA)'s Faculty of Science. The chair was designated on behalf …

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Sterkenburg argues universal method of prediction is impossible

Is it possible to formulate a universal method of prediction? PhD candidate Tom Sterkenburg of CWI’s Machine Learning group argues in his thesis that it is not. He will defend his thesis …

Sterkenburg argues universal method of prediction is impossible. Image: shutterstock.

Presentations CWI Lectures on Machine Learning 2017

This year, the CWI Lectures were held on Thursday 23 November. The presentations are now available online.