Past events

Lecture - Studium Generale
Prof. Ignaas Devisch, Professor of Ethics, Philosophy and Medical Philosophy, Ghent University

Open Design is a phenomenon which applies the concept of open source software to digital blueprints of physical objects. It relies heavily on the modular Creative Commons licensing regime, which requires a functioning copyright framework. Furthermore, the relation between Open Design and industrial...

Studium Generale - Lecture Series
Several speakers

Studium Generale - Lecture
Matthijs Rooduijn, PhD
Assistant Professor of Political Sociology, University of Amsterdam

Studium Generale - Start Lecture Series
Prof. Fons Coomans, Jennifer Sellin, PhD, Prof. Jure Vidmar, Gustavo Arosemena, PhD & Roland Moerland, PhD

 

Studium Generale - Start Lecture Series
Prof. Marcel Merk 
Research Physicist Nikhef, Professor Free University Amsterdam
 

Can a machine (based on AI) perceive, understand, learn and in the end reproduce concepts about art?

Data science is strongly associated with hi-tech companies like Google and Facebook. Yet our doctors are increasingly able to collect large amounts of data about us too.  Find out more about this data, what we can do with it and what it will mean for how we prescribe drugs.

Can a machine (based on AI) perceive, understand, learn and in the end reproduce concepts about art? Jerry Spanakis, assistant professor of machine learning and data mining, will tell you.

Why should we care about the future? Prof. dr. Marc Davidson will explain why in this lecture.