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…
Vacancy for an Assistant Professor Position
We are looking for a new colleague to join us at the IRLab as an assistant professor through the MacGillavry Fellowship program, on responsible advice-giving systems, such as search engines, recommender systems, or conversational assistants. If you want to know more about the IRLab, please reach out to Maarten de Rijke. To find out more about the…
Multiple postdoc vacancies
IRLab and INDELab have several openings for one-year postdoc positions in AI and/or data management for retail. These positions are based in the AI for Retail Lab. Please check out this page for details and the application procedure.
PhD Position on Enforcing the Right-to-be-Forgotten in Recommender Systems
My colleague Sebastian Schelter (formerly U. of Amsterdam, now TU Berlin) has an opening for a PhD Position on Enforcing the Right-to-be-Forgotten in Recommender Systems. The position is with the TU Berlin. I will be a (remote) co-supervisor. Please see https://deem.berlin/#jobs-30424 for details, and these two papers for samples of the kind of research that…
Program for the SIGIR 2024 Workshop on IR for Climate Impact Online
The program for the SIGIR 2024 Workshop on IR for Climate Impact, to be held on July 18 during SIGIR 2024 in Washington D.C., is online. See https://sites.google.com/view/ir-for-climate-impact/home for further details.
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…
Now is the Time to Invest in AI Infrastructure
(This is an automatically generated translated version of an op-ed that appears in De Volkskrant on January 18, 2024, by Geert-Jan Houben (TU Delft), Kees van der Klauw (NLAIC), Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam), and Ronald Stolk (University of Groningen).) In order not to lose the battle for generative…
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…
Postdoc Vacancy on Trustworthy AI-Based Systems for Sustainable Growth
Are you interested in making contributions to trustworthy AI-based systems and in understanding and uncovering policy implications of such systems? We are seeking a postdoc to join our team, someone who is keen to contribute to the development of trustworthy machine learning systems and to translating algorithmic advances and challenges in machine learning for policy…