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	RESEARCH: ADS in 2017 Six-Month Report What have we been doing for the first 6 months of 2017? In brief, our highlights: - New collaborations: Bosch, Insight Ireland, National Police, Tsinghua - Launch: School of Data Science - Launch: Data Science Minor - Triple increase in numbers: Data Science Master Track - ‘Het Financieele Dagblad’ article series on our collaborations: Elsevier, Tata Steel, Qualcomm, Sandd, Philips, Databricks - Events: Hosted 20 Meetups  Read the full report HERE More

	RESEARCH: AAA International Visiting Researchers Programme ADS invites applications from ADS researchers for the Amsterdam Academic Alliance (AAA) Funded International Visiting Researchers Programme. The aim of the programme is to further international collaborations between ADS and either Insight Ireland, Tsinghua University or Wuhan University. The deadline for applications is Friday 15 September. More

	RESEARCH: Sabine Niederer Appointed Lecturer in Visual Methodologies On 04 July, the Board of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences appointed Sabine Niederer lecturer of Visual Methodologies. This new position will focus on image as a tool for research and will lead to new insights and applications for practical research in fashion, media, design and digital technology. “In this lectureship, image is also a research tool for mapping social issues, exploring solutions, studying data sets from all sides, and communicating critical concepts and insights visually,” said Niederer. More

	RESEARCH: Marcel Worring and Stevan Rudinac Awarded Funding for SCORE Project Smart Cities and Open Data Reuse (SCORE) is an EU project of ADS, DataLab (City of Amsterdam), and many cities in Northern Europe: Dordrecht, Aberdeen, Bradford, Ghent, Gothenburg, Aarhus, and Hamburg. It will fund a PhD student with Marcel Worring and Stevan Rudinac (UvA) who, in collaboration with the HvA, will work on several challenging data-driven problems in Amsterdam as well as the other cities mentioned. The project will start in January 2018. More

	EDUCATION: Computable Awards Nomination for Amsterdam School of Data Science We are delighted to announce that the Amsterdam School of Data Science has been successfully nominated in the 2017 Computable Awards. The award nomination is for ‘ICT Educator of the Year’, the winner of which will be announced on 31 October. Voting is open so if you would like to support our nomination please see the Computable Awards website for further information. More

	ADS Coffee & Data - Financial Auditing - Friday 08 September - 09:00 - SPUI25 On the topic of Data Science in Financial Auditing we will have introduction & presentations from Edo Roos Lindgreen (Professor of Data Science in Auditing, Faculty of Economics and Business, UvA, and Partner KPMG Advisory), Dennis de Vries (Lead of the Dutch KPMG Digital Ledger Services, and member of KPMG’s global Digital Ledger Services steering committee), Mona de Boer (Director of Data Analytics, PwC).  Register

	Save These Dates! - 06 Oct. (09:00): Data Science & HR Analytics - 18 Oct. (16:30): Deep Dive into Machine Learning - Registration OPEN! - 19 Oct. (16:00): Responsible Data Science with guest speaker Prof. dr. José van Dijck (President Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) - Registration OPEN! - 07 Dec. (15:00): ADS Highlights of 2017 Registration for these events is through our Meetup page. More

	SEMANTiCS Conference in Amsterdam in September The SEMANTiCS conference features a special Data Science track this year. SEMANTiCS'17 will be held in Amsterdam on 11-14 September. It is a meeting place for professionals who make semantic computing and data science work.  More

	Inaugural Lecture: Lora Aroyo - 15 September Lora Aroyo, Full Professor at the Web & Media group, Department of Computer Science VU, will give her inaugural lecture on Friday 15 September (15:45) at the VU Aula. More

	Inaugural Lecture: Frans Feldberg - 22 September Frans Feldberg, Professor of Data-Driven Business Innovation, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (VU), will give his inaugural lecture on Friday 22 September (15:45) at the VU Aula. Please note the event will be in Dutch. More

	Apply for the ACE Incubation Program - Starts 02 October Interested in starting your own science or high-tech company? Applications are now open for the ACE Incubation Program. Learn how to build your science or high-tech company with 12 weeks of training and support. The program starts on 02 October and is exclusively designed for MSc students, researchers & industry specialists who aim to launch & grow their innovative business. Application deadline: 17 September More

	National eScience Symposium - 12 October - Amsterdam ArenA Digital technology cuts through all scientific disciplines. We will discuss, in different thematic sessions, what this means for scientific research. From the humanities to physics and beyond. Thematic Sessions: Internet of Things; Natural Language Processing; Energy Science; Brain, Cognition and Behavior; The Future of Machine Learning. More

	CWI Lectures on Machine Learning - 23 November This year, the lectures will be organised by CWI’s newly established Machine Learning group. Speakers will include world-leading machine learning researchers: – Suchi Saria (Johns Hopkins University) – Neil Lawrence (Amazon Research Cambridge and Sheffield University) – Max Welling (University of Amsterdam) – Csaba Szepesvári (University of Alberta and Alberta Innovates Center for Machine Learning) More