Oscar van den Wijngaard wins the 2024 Wynand Wijnen education Prize
Oscar’s contributions, spanning decades of innovation and dedication, make him a worthy recipient of this year’s award. Congratulations, Oscar, you rock!
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Knowledge is for sharing
Like a number of other universities in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the world, UM has its own Open Science Community (OSCM), a bottom-up organisation supported by ten volunteers, including seven ambassadors within the faculties. One of them is PhD candidate Matthijs Sloep, a data engineer at...
An open book that doesn’t make sense
DKE’s Jerry Spanakis on responsible machine learning models, what algorithms can and can’t ‘understand’ and why that matters to all of us.
M-EPLI Talks
M-EPLI Talks offer a forum to share academic work and ideas. These meetings take place twice a month during the academic year at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University.
21 MayStudent debate with European parliamentarians
Maastricht University's ITEM Expertise Centre will organise a major Student debate with European parliamentarians on 14 May.
14 May- fse-ai-curriculum-2023-2024.pdf (3.69 MB, PDF)… https://coursecatalogue.maastrichtuniversity.nl/cameron.browne Artificial Intelligence 7 Prerequisites Desired Prior Knowledge: Machine Learning Recommended reading Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning - C.M. Bishop; Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning - D. Barber; Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning - C.E. Rasmussen & C. Williams; The Elements of Statistical Learning - T. Hastie et al. KEN4154 Period 2 30 Oct 2023 22 Dec 2023 Print course description … made by it and the process through which they are made. Such explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) can be required in a wide range of applications. For example, a regulator of waterways may use a decision support system to decide which boats to check for legal infringements, a concerned citizen might use a system to find reliable information about a new disease, or an employer might use an artificial advice-giver to choose between potential candidates fairly. For explanations from intelligent … There are often constraints on the order in which tasks, or ‘jobs’ can be performed, and there are usually capacity constraints of the machines. This leads to natural, industrially critical optimization problems. For example, a company might choose to buy many machines to process jobs, but then there is a risk that the machines will be underused, which is economically inefficient. On the other hand, too few machines, or an inappropriate ordering of tasks, may lead to machines spending a significant …
Poverty, suffering in silence
According to the United Nations, poverty means not being able to provide for the basic necessities of life. Even in a rich country like the Netherlands, more and more people are affected by poverty, certainly after the COVID-19 pandemic. Often there is so-called silent poverty, because you don’t...
Forgotten and overlooked- children during their parent’s arrest
‘Police, open the door!’ A sentence often heard when police arrest people at their houses. These arrests are often carried out by heavily armed police teams and accompanied by noise, shouting and violence. In this often chaotic situation, one party is often forgotten: the child(ren) of the arrested...
