Education
Knowledge is the central factor in modern society. Smart chips help companies to keep track of goods and to manage supplies and stocks. The usability of new hi-tech communication devices, such as cell phones, navigation instruments and digital cameras, is greatly enhanced by intelligent software. Electronic banking and e-commerce heavily rely on real-time access to large databases and require high security protocols for information exchange. Medical and biological engineering helps medical doctors arrive quickly at an accurate diagnosis, and is now opening up exciting new possibilities for personalised medicine.In the Bachelor programme in Knowledge Engineering and in the Master programmes in Artificial Intelligence and in Operations Research, you learn how to approach new challenges in these important areas. You learn to collect and organise valuable information with the help of mathematics and modern computer techniques. You learn to use models and computers to analyse information, to generate new knowledge, to draw important conclusions, to solve practical problems efficiently, and to speed up the decision-making process.