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PhD Kristof VAN MOFFAERT

02/03/2016 - 17:00

On March 2nd 2016 Kristof Van Moffaert obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Multi-Criteria Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Decision Making Problems
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Ann Nowé

Vloeberghs Chair 2015-16: Peter McBurney

03/02/2016 - 09:00

You are cordially invited to the series of lectures on research challenges and emerging technologies for computational modeling of economic and financial domains. The VUB has appointed the Vloeberghsleerstoel 2015-2016 to Peter McBurney, head of the Department of Informatics, King’s College, London, UK.

Cisco Talent Connection Event 2016

23/11/2015 - 09:00

The annual Cisco Talent Event will take place in Diegem on 4 March 2016 from 8:45 am until 16 pm. The aim of this event is to bring graduates into contact with future employers.

Artificial Intelligence lab in first edition of HENRI magazine

08/10/2015 - 13:00

On page 48 of the university's new magazine HENRI, Joren Sanders reports on the apology and forgiveness work of Luis Martinez-Vaquero, Tom Lenaerts and their colleagues The Anh Han (Teesside University, UK) and Luis Moniz Pereira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal).

PhD Dries HARNIE

11/09/2015 - 17:00

On September 11th 2015 Dries Harnie obtained the academic degree of DOCTOR IN SCIENCES with the following doctoral thesis:
Blame Prediction: Early detection of type errors in dynamically typed programming languages
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter

Start of the IBM "Master the Mainframe" Contest

08/09/2015 - 13:30

IBM organizes a “Master the Mainframe” contest. Students as well as non-students can participate, but only students can win some fantastic prizes (Apple Watches, a Raspberry Pi kits and a “Master the Mainframe” T-shirt). Registration can be done as of 14 September at www.ibm.com/systems/z/masterthemainframe (select Benelux as country). The contest starts on October 5th and ends on December 31st.

PhD Lode HOSTE

26/06/2015 - 17:00

On June 26th 2015 Hoste Lode obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
A Declarative Approach for Engineering Multimodal Interaction
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Beat Signer & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter

PhD Saba YAHYAA

15/05/2015 - 16:00

On May 15th 2015 Saba Yahyaa obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis: Explorations in Reinforcement Learning: Online Action Selection and Online Value Function Approximation
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Bernard Manderick

VUB teams score in 2015 Cyber Security Challenge

09/03/2015 - 14:15

During the qualifiers for the 2015 Cyber Security Challenge, which took place on Wednesday 4 March and Thursday 5 March, several students of our university scored very well.