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Four FSE start-ups take part in Academic Startup Competition
Published on:07 February 2025

Four start-up companies founded by FSE scientists have been nominated to participate in the fifth edition of the Academic Start-up Competition.

Working on better AI (with a smaller budget than the US)
Published on:27 January 2025

The US is going to invest a staggering amount of $500 billion in AI. At the University of Groningen, researchers are working on future-proof computing: more energy-efficient hardware and responsible AI that can collaborate with humans.

Medical AI as a sparring partner
Published on:06 January 2025

Andra Cristiana Minculescu studied how an AI-tool could collaborate with a team of medical experts. Today, her project was awarded the Impact Award of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Groningen. 

Machine learning with limited data
Published on:18 December 2024

Kerstin Bunte, Professor of Machine Learning for Interdisciplinary Data Analysis at the University of Groningen, specializes in working with limited data. She is swimming against the current habit of ‘just ask for more’.

A human should decide when it comes to matters of life or death
Published on:17 December 2024

From medical diagnoses to autonomous weapons in the Middle East: artificial intelligence (AI) is making more and more decisions on its own without a human involved. Rineke Verbrugge, Professor of Logic and Cognition at the University of Groningen, believes that has to change.

Error-free computer programs thanks to math and logic
Published on:09 December 2024

Jorge Pérez, associate professor in Software Foundations at the University of Groningen, uses mathematics and logic on a quest towards a world free of software errors.

26.9 million euros funding for CogniGron and HTRIC from Ubbo Emmius Fund
Published on:06 December 2024

The Ubbo Emmius Fund (UEF) of the University of Groningen has awarded the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center and the Health Technology Research and Innovation Cluster a total of 26.9 million euros.

3.3 million for improving online participation platforms
Published on:21 October 2024

Professor Davide Grossi has been awarded a EUR 3.3 million Horizon Europe grant to improve online participation platforms.

The hidden costs of duct tape software
Published on:09 October 2024

Hidden problems in software can lead to major consequences. Paris Avgeriou, Professor of Software Engineering, collaborates with companies to detect such problems and to limit their impact.

NWO M-2 grant for energy-efficient computer hardware
Published on:30 July 2024

Professors Tamalika Banerjee Bart Kooi will receive a EUR 750,000 grant for research contributing to the development of energy-efficient computer hardware.

The chips of the future
Published on:23 July 2024

Our computers use an unnecessarily large amount of energy, and we are reaching the limits of our current technology. That is why CogniGron is working on new materials that mimic the way the brain computes, and Professor Tamalika Banerjee will develop chips for energy-efficient computers with her start-up company IMChipN .

Smart robots to make smaller chips
Published on:18 July 2024

A robotic arm in a factory that repeatedly executes the same movement: that’s a thing of the past, states Ming Cao. Researchers of the University of Groningen are collaborating with high-tech companies to make production processes more autonomous.

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