In Engelstalige literatuur wordt er wel over ‘helicopter parents’ gesproken. Helikopterouders zijn ouders die voortdurend ‘boven de hoofden van hun kinderen hangen’, constant toezicht houden op elk aspect van hun leven.  In: Nieuwsbrief Nederlandse Dalton Vereniging, november 2018

Deze column gaat in op personen met verschillende drijfveren en de gevolgen daarvan op de samenwerking binnen een organisatie.

What about people, hardware (biology) and software (culture)? Our construction starts with an egg cell and a sperm cell that is 83,000 times smaller (in this phase the female is certainly cooperative). The 2 cells double, and double, 47 times (247) resulting in the 140.737 billion (1.4 * 1014) complex …

Youyou et al. showed that from 70 likes the algorithm could predict the personality better than friends, from 150 likes better than family members and from 300 likes even better than the test person himself. However, the machine learning algorithm does not know the person better than the colleagues, …

Although usually very predictable, the outcome of (inter) action on both the individual and the group level is in principle not predictable (undetermined, or chaotic). Mathematically, this is called nonlinear dynamics, or non-deterministic systems, or chaos. There are so many forces involved in the "system" …

In machine learning, people stay responsible for defining both the available data, and the desired outcomes. The growth of knowledge and insights remains both critical and constantly dependent on developments, and therefore on professionals. Although the quality of our work can increase through the use …

Martien Visser praat in zijn maandelijkse column over het Nederlandse energiesysteem en de gevolgen en kosten van de energietransitie.

Deze column gaat in op verschillende aspecten van goed leiderschap.

Gesproken column bij de opening van het hogeschooljaar op het Prins Claus Conservatorium

In 2004 the physicist Chris Anderson postulated a theory - the long tail - in which he stated that with the emergence of the internet many writers and artists get a chance of success. As a result, greatest hits and bestsellers would have an increasingly relatively smaller share in the totals of artist …