Educational and interesting talks from a wide range of speakers on the first day of our event on Large Language Models and how they affect society. From bankfraud to websites that answer questions and mention the source of their information. bit.ly/49afw2W #LLMs #ai #rag

Want to know more about the impact of large language models on society, but didn't register for our event on 23 and 24 April? Follow the talks via Zoom💻! You'll find the links for both days here 👉 bit.ly/49afw2W

Did you register for our workshop 'Large Language Models for media and democracy: wrecking or saving society?'. Don't wait too long! On 23 and 24 April you will learn about: GPT-NL (the Dutch ChatGPT), the use of Large Language Models and much more. 👉bit.ly/48z4CDH

Excited for CWI's Research Semester Programme on AI's Impact on Society, Media, and Democracy! Join us on May 27-28, 2024, for insightful lectures by experts like NHelberger is @[email protected] , Cynthia Liem, Bennie Mols, and Mark Klein.

Register now and learn more:
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Congrats with the launch of the Dutch National Quantum Course on #WorldQuantumDay , 14 April! 🎊 Our colleague Stacey Jeffery is featuring in this free course for a broad audience. See tech-cursus.nl/quantum/ QuSoft UvA Amsterdam Quantum Delta NL Jim Stolze

Zijn methode wordt al als revolutionair bestempeld, en hij krijgt een fiks bedrag om eraan verder te werken. Wiskundige Peter Grünwald wil met een nieuwe benadering de wetenschap robuuster en flexibeler maken.

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🎊👏🏻Congratulations Lina Ochoa with your VERSEN Best PhD Thesis Award for your CWI/TU Eindhoven thesis ‘Break the Code? Breaking Changes and their Impact on Software Evolution’!

🎉Congratulations to Peter Grünwald (CWI, LeidenScience ENG)! He has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5M EUR for the project FLEX (Flexible Statistical Inference) by European Research Council (ERC).

Read more here 👉cwi.nl/en/news/erc-ad…

Congratulations, Avi Wigderson, with the 2023 #ACMTuringAward ! It was great to meet you at CWI, two years ago. In 2022, our colleague Ronald de Wolf wrote an article about your work and influence: tinyurl.com/RdeWolf-about-….

Everything you always wanted to know about Large Language Models (but were afraid to ask😉) will be available to you during an event on 23 and 24 April at CWI! We have lined up 20 presentations, 1 keynote, 2 panel discussions and 1 interactive session. 👉bit.ly/48z4CDH

This week, our colleague Ute Ebert (CWI, TU Eindhoven) had the honour to give the annual Johann Bernoulli Lecture on ‘The Unseen Structures of Lightning’. Watch the fascinating story on YouTube: lnkd.in/e5B4uweU Studium Generale Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap Groningen Picture: George Huitema.

This week, former CWI PhD student Lucas Slot received the Stieltjes Prize 2022-2023 for the best mathematical PhD thesis in the Netherlands. Congrats, Lucas! 🎉 See: cwi.nl/en/news/stielt… ETH Zürich Zürich Tilburg University #NMC2024

Starting this month Tim Baarslag is appointed to the De KNAW Council for Natural Sciences and Technology! 🥳Congratulations!🎉. 👉bit.ly/3vCxRIa

📢Mark your calendars for:

𝗔𝗜’𝘀 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆, 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆

Join us for a 2-day open event with renowned experts to address AI's impact on media and democracy 🎞️

📆 May 27-28, 2024
📍 CWI, Amsterdam
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👋Hello world! The first official tweet from Young KWG - a section from the Royal Dutch Mathematics Society (KWG) meant for early-career mathematicians: from students to assistant professors. Stay tuned for exciting updates, but for now: please spread the word and follow us! 🧮

For all (young) mathematicians working in the Netherlands: follow Young KWG! Our first actions will be a panel session on AI during the NMC and the first official Young KWG day at the end of May. Hope to get a nice community of young mathematicians together!

How can #healthcare organizations 🏥best utilize their capacity amidst staff shortages and growing demand for care? At the Zorg&ict in Jaarbeurs Utrecht, Rob van der Mei and Dennis Moeke explain how to streamline healthcare processes and systems. 👉bit.ly/43xQUQB

Today, the University of Amsterdam announced that CWI's Stacey Jeffery is appointed professor of Quantum Information at KdVI UvA Amsterdam. Congratulations, Stacey! 🎉 tinyurl.com/Stacey-Jeffery… EWM-NL Women in Quantum Development QuSoft

Big news: we (TU/e M&CS CWI Radboud University @[email protected] UvA Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam TU Eindhoven ) received a Gravitation grant for 'Challenges in Cyber Security'. I'm very much looking forward to the collaborations and the work ahead. Thanks to all who contributed! rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws…

Want to learn more about the latest developments in Large Language Models (LLM’s)? We have an extensive program for you on 23 & 24 April. With talks about the Dutch #ChatGPT , flooding the political zone with shit, financial crimes with #LLMs . More info 👉bit.ly/49afw2W