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    Menno Rasch, a fan of team science

    Heritage. You cannot avoid it if you walk along the old Amsterdam canals to the historic building of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). There, we speak to Menno Rasch, director of Digital Infrastructure at the KNAW's Humanities Cluster. The main topic of conversation? That is, not surprisingly, the digitisation of our heritage.
    Menno Rasch kijkt uit het raam van zijn kantoor

  • "Cybersecurity is not black magic"

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    Dr Melanie Rieback (46), co-founder and CEO of Radically Open Security, is known for her unique approach in cybersecurity. At the Open Source Leadership Summit on 13 December, she will share her views on non-profit entrepreneurship, transparency and the power of open source. Her life path proves that bold choices can lead to a whole new movement.
    Melanie Rieback met microfoon op podium

  • The beauty of creating a (virtual) human

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    How to create a believable virtual human? That’s the research focus of Zerrin Yumak, assistant professor at Utrecht University and director of the Motion Capture and Virtual Reality Lab. Zerrin is a keynote speaker at the XR Day on 3 July.
    Portret Zerrin Yumak

  • AI lets scientists work magic with language

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    "I can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in language," says linguist Antal van den Bosch. "It is an instrument with wondrous properties. When I learnt a new language in high school, it gave me a kind of key to another world." Nowadays, he finds the magic in artificial intelligence.
    Antal van den Bosch aan Utrechtste gracht

  • Procurement lawyer Monique Pellinkhof: "Creating a match is cool"

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    Tenders tedious? Not for Monique Pellinkhof. She is senior procurement manager at GÉANT, the European association of research and education networks (NRENs). Currently, Pellinkhof is extremely busy with OCRE2024, the European tender for cloud services. "The international collaboration is hugely rewarding," she says.
    Monique Pellinkhof achter laptop