The Center for Creation, Content and Technology is a collaboration between institutes and groups of several faculties of the University of Amsterdam and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, which work together on a project basis in the field of content and technology. The aim is to combine the strengths of these groups in research and education in a unique multi-disciplinary setting, and preferably in collaboration with the (creative) industries in and around Amsterdam. See about for more information.

 

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Two research groups that are involved in CCCT have been assessed by the Review Committee on Research Quality in Computer Science and have obtained the highest possible scores. It concerns Information and Language Processing Systems (Prof. Maarten de Rijke) and Intelligent Sensory Information Systems (Prof. Arnold Smeulders).

Information and Language Processing Systems (Maarten de Rijke)
The group has established itself in a 4-year span period as a world-leader. It publishes in

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Brainlab is part of the Amsterdam University College and co-funded by CCCT via a subsidy of the Platform Beta Techniek.
In the latest issue of the VU magazine (June 2010) there is an article about the Brainlab: "Silence please! Concentrate on the movie!"
http://www.ccct.uva.nl/sites/default/files/Brainlab - Magazine June 2010.pdf

Digital Life Centre Seminar "Mens voor de Lens", Wednesday, 23 Juni 2010, 11:00-18:00 hrs.

The 'Hogeschool van Amsterdam' organizes a seminar about markets and applications for camera surveillance on June 23 in the afternoon. (Ben Krose) See for information: http://www.digitallifecentre.nl/jos/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi...

The CCCT starts with a minor program (30 EC) from September 2010 onwards. Education Institute: Informatiewetenschappen.

It comprises:

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Free online Open Course 'Logic in Action' is now available, a CCCT project developed by Prof. Johan van Benthem, Jan van Eijck, Hans van Ditmarsch and Jan Jaspars. With chapters on propositional logic, syllogistics, predicate logic etc. And with chapters on, for example, logic, games and interaction.

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The Center for Creation, Content and Technology, offers fee waivers for the Summer School on Multimedia Semantics 2010 http://ssms10.project.cwi.nl/ for a number of students based in the Netherlands. The waiver covers the registration fee for the summer school. Students who would like to make use of these should request this in their letter of application.
Applications will be evaluated and ranked by a selection committee in terms of motivation and background of the PhD student.

CREATE-IT Applied Research centre was opened. CREATE-IT Applied Research is a new partner of CCCT. CREATE-IT conducts applied research together with universities and institutions commissioned by the creative industries and the IT sector in and around Amsterdam.
http://www.create-it.hva.nl/content/create-it-applied-research/nieuws/in...

Show me the Data was sponsored by CCCT. Nine multi-disciplinary teams coming from the Master programs Human Centered Multimedia, Artificial Intelligence, New Media of the UvA and Editorial design of the HKU presented their data visualization projects. Two internationally acclaimed speakers Manuel Lima (http://VisualComplexity.com) and Daniel Aguilar (http://Bestiario.org) and the CEO of Magnaview Erik-Jan van der Linden, presented their latest results. See http://staff.science.uva.nl/~worring/items/show-me-the-data.html for more info.

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Alpha version of CCCT site launched
Als eerste stap in het naar buiten brengen van het CCCT is een website met basale informatie over het CCCT nu beschikbaar. Wordt vervolgd...

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