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How Fontys teaches IT students to choose between AI models

How can AI best be utilised in education? At Fontys, Koen Suilen is one of the people leading the way on this, starting with the IT programme. SURF AI plays a key role within their AI ecosystem. Not only as a responsible alternative, but also because it is surprisingly fast.

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Easy access to processing power for computational recommendation models

Flavius Frasincar from Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is researching how recommendation systems for online financial news can be improved.

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The voter's heartbeat

What role do emotions play in the elections? That is what Gijs Schumacher (37) is researching as senior lecturer in Political Science at the UvA.

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Cool tools: understanding communication between cells

Chemists Bert Janssen and Dimphna Meijer of Utrecht University study the proteins that make communication between brain cells possible.

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Powerful computing for social sciences with ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer

Social scientists conducting research with data from Statistics Netherlands (CBS) can safely harness the power of high-performance computing.

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Through the outback with a lightning fast solar car

A team of students from Groningen built a racing car powered by solar energy.

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Comprehensive datasets provide insight into psychiatric disorders

Genetic variants are important in the development of psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. Read how SURF is contributing.

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From methane to hydrogen

Read here how supercomputer Cartesius is used for research into the dissociation of methane on metal surfaces.

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Cartesius and the white dwarfs

Why is it that the surface of a white dwarf contains so many heavy metals? To answer this, professor of computational astrophysics Prof Simon Portegies Zwart had to simulate the entire solar system.

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