It has been one month today since Emma passed away. It doesn’t feel like things are getting better. Every new day is worse than the previous. There’s a deepening sense of loss as the reality continues to sink in. We’ve adopted a lot of slow goodbye rituals. They help somewhat. But what really keeps us…
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Update on Call for Donations #3
In just a week since we opened this appeal, over 200 people have donated over 8000 euro. Thank you so much for your generosity and support for this cause! Many of you contributed anonymously, so we are not able to thank you individually, but thank you so much for your donations. We really appreciate them….
Update on Call for Donations #2
Our online condolence book for Emma: https://www.uitvaartverzorgingmyosotis.nl/condoleance/24699 Please contribute at https://inmemoriam.inactievoorepilepsie.nl/fundraisers/emma-de-rijke and share the link. Thank you! (URL and QR code update on November 19, 2025.) Next post: Previous posts:
Update on Call for Donations #1
An in memoriam for Emma published by Leiden University, where she was a student enrolled in the MA Asian Studies program: In Memoriam: Emma de Rijke Please contribute at https://inmemoriam.inactievoorepilepsie.nl/fundraisers/emma-de-rijke and share the link. Thank you! (URL and QR code updated on November 19, 2025.) Next post: Previous post:
Donate Generously to Advance Epilepsy Research and to Support Epilepsy Patients and their Loved Ones
On November 24, 2024 our daughter Emma passed away at the age of 27. She had suffered from epilepsy for over 12 years. We have set up a collection box in her memory. Please give generously to help advance research into epilepsy and to help provide support to epilepsy patients and their loved ones. We…
Information Retrieval for Climate Impact Workshop @ SIGIR 2024
SIGIR 2024 will host a workshop to explore challenges in information retrieval system development to help understand climate impact. The evidence base for observed climate impacts is expanding, and the wider climate literature is growing exponentially. Systematic reviews and systematic maps offer structured ways to collectively identify and describe this evidence while maintaining transparency, attempting…
Without Investments, AI Will Remain Science Fiction Here
Since generative AI entered into the public sphere, about a year ago, developments have been rapid on the other side of the ocean – with everything that entails. Can the Netherlands lead the way to develop AI based on European values? Read this opinion piece by Max Welling, Cees Snoek, and Maarten de Rijke in…
Digital Sovereignty and the Parliamentary Elections
(This is a slightly edited automatic translation of an opinion piece that originally appeared on November 18, 2023 on the ICAI web site.) Inequality and social security play a major role in the run-up to the House of Representatives elections. This special emphasis leads to navel gazing: the Netherlands is “closing the curtains” according to NRC. Navel gazing also…
Two PhD Positions in Conversational AI
Come and join us to work on algorithmic solutions to challenges in conversational intelligence! We invite applications for two fully-funded, four-year PhD positions on conversational AI. One position is aimed at making neural networks for conversational agents more efficient, and the second is aimed at generating synthetic data for training conversational agents. To find out…
Postdoc/PhD Student Position in Fairness-Aware Learning to Rank for Algorithmic Hiring
Andrew Yates and I are looking for a postdoc or PhD student to join us on the FINDHR project. Algorithmic hiring is on the rise and rapidly becoming necessary in some sectors, yet the systems for algorithmic hiring run the risk of reproducing and amplifying discriminatory biases. FINDHR is an interdisciplinary EU project that seeks…