‘AI system should know its own limits’ Every artificial intelligent system makes mistakes, said Professor Inald Lagendijk during his lecture on Engineering Meaningful Human Control for the Bataafsch Society last Monday. For an AI system that has to distinguish apples from pears, mistakes might be amusing, but for an HR…
The demand for shared electric scooters in the Netherlands keeps growing. While they are branded as green, fun, and silent, in Trouw, Prof. Bert van Wee — the Transport Policy Professor at the TPM Faculty — warns that these very attributes are double-edged swords. The Professor argues that the scooters perform worse compared to bicycles…
Higher education will remain in lockdown Primary schools will reopen next week, but universities will have to wait a little longer. The situation remains extremely worrying, write the experts of the Outbreak Management Team (OMT) in its advice to the Dutch government. The OMT is divided, according to a letter on the subject from…
Gratis grasduinen door allerlei Nederlandse wetenschappelijke tijdschriften uit de sociale- en geesteswetenschappen? Vanaf 29 januari kan het, dankzij het nieuwe open access platform OpenJournals. Op dit nieuwe platform kunnen in Nederland uitgegeven tijdschriften hun artikelen publiceren zonder dat deze achter een paywall verdwijnen. Bezoekers kunnen door zeven tijdschriften bladeren. De collectie wordt in drie jaar…
20 million for delayed researchers divided After four months of negotiations, 20 million euros have been allocated for researchers delayed by corona. More than 18 million euros will go to universities and over one million euros to various research institutes. 500 thousand euros have been allocated for young scientists who work abroad on a…
Erasmus grants for Scotland and Wales after all? At the end of December it was announced that the United Kingdom will discontinue the Erasmus+ programme. Prime Minister Boris Johnson finds participation too expensive and wants to launch a new British exchange programme. But according to the German MEP Terry Reintke and her colleagues, Scotland…
LSVb critical of proposed government exit strategy How long will it be before students and staff can go back to campus? The government is working on a roadmap for easing the lockdown. Don’t put higher education in the back row, warns the National Students’ Union LSVb. The LSVb makes this call in response to…
Three men arrested for swindling TU Delft The Delft police have arrested three suspects for swindling TU Delft and others. They are men of 20, 34 and 39 from Waddinxveen, Zaanstad and Rotterdam. They had tried to order two hundred robot vacuum cleaners under a false TU Delft domain name. Because the…
De TU Delft werkt momenteel aan een training die medewerkers moet leren om bewuster om te gaan met digitale systemen en data. Voor die training is de afdeling ICT Security op zoek naar medewerkers die input willen leveren. Vanaf maart wil ICT het trainingsaanbod van meerdere aanbieders onder de loep noemen om te onderzoeken welke methode…
Questionnaire about corona compensation The University PhD Council (UPC) wants to investigate how the TU spent the so called ‘wage margin’ that was reserved in 2020 for extending the contracts of temporary research workers who were delayed by corona. UPC has launched a survey together with the four trade unions at TU Delft, …
