In 2011, a loose group of “grumpy futurists” wrote up an extensive list of “Alternatives to the Singularity” in a collaborative Google Document. “The Singularity”, in popular culture and para-religious belief, refers to the point where machine intelligence leaves humans behind. Against the techno-utopian …

Invited talk presented during the execution of the Memorandum of Understanding between Tinajin University and the Dutch Hanze and Saxion Universities of Applied Sciences.

Many attempts have been made to build an artificial brain. This paper aims to contribute to the conceptualization of an artificial learning system that functionally resembles an organic brain in a number of important neuropsychological aspects. Probably the techniques (algorithms) required are already …

Abstraction is considered an essential aspect of computational thinking. Primary schools are starting to include computational thinking into the curriculum. However, in order to guide their support, teachers need to know how to recognize abstraction. In this paper, we present how we can observe abstraction …

De ontwikkelingen rondom toekomstige slimme steden worden in de lokale en regionale media maar mondjesmaat belicht. Als er over digitale ontwikkelingen geschreven wordt is dat met name positief gekleurd, zo blijkt althans uit het onderzoek Slimme Luis in een Digitale Pels dat het lectoraat Fontys Journalistiek …

AI wordt al met succes toegepast in E-discovery als machinelearningtechniek ten behoeve van predictive coding om slimmer e-mails en documenten te filteren en te clusteren. AI wordt ook al ingezet door opsporingsinstanties bij het automatisch zoeken naar afbeeldingen met wapens, drugs en bloot en naar …

This bachelor final project examines how the Dutch Ministry of Defence could enhance the number of female officers within in the organisation. The Dutch Ministry of Defence represents safety and peace in- and outside of the Netherlands. In the organisation, women are rarely represented. In 2017, solely …

In recent years, the threat of Islamic terrorism became visible in several European countries. The terrorist attacks that occurred in France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, etc. shocked the European society. Especially the phenomenon of home-grown terrorists, individuals who radicalised in European countries, …

Spontaneous speech is an important source of information for aphasia research. It is essential to collect the right amount of data: enough for distinctions in the data to become meaningful, but not so much that the data collection becomes too expensive or places an undue burden on participants. The latter …

Beyond the potential of new layers of urban infrastructure - sensor-laden networks, big data, artificial intelligence - to optimize cities functionally, lay promising opportunities to also use these technologies for new forms of social interactions. In an ongoing smart city development project, we explore …