Djoerd Hiemstra @hiemstra@mastodon.utwente.nl

Was fairness in Information Retrieval discussed by Cooper and Robertson in the 1970’s?

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2021/fairness-in-information-retrieval/

The concept schedule for the new SIKS course “Advances in Information Retrieval” is out, featuring the best IR researchers in the Netherlands, if I may say so:

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2021/siks-course-advances-in-information-retrieval/

IR. Information Retrieval.
https://github.com/ir-anthology/ir-anthology/wiki/IR-Glossary

Civil Disobedience in the 2020's: Passing Google's recaptcha's by intentionally making small errors each and every time.

Dear students and database lovers, we're Live!

Growing pains... First hybrid on-site/on-line lecture Information Modelling & Databases.

Is FIWARE still a thing?

https://www.fiware.org/

RecSys 2021, the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems will be hybrid, with the physical component taking place 27 Sept-1 Oct in the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Before and after the conference there are numerous virtual events.

https://recsys.acm.org/recsys21/

Bart Jacobs awarded with the NWO Stevin Prize!

https://www.nwo.nl/en/nwo-stevin-prize

Het ABP móet zich afkeren van fossiele energie!

https://www.parool.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-abp-moet-zich-afkeren-van-fossiele-energie~be931397/

A love-hate affair with technology...

https://nolanlawson.com/2021/08/26/my-love-hate-affair-with-technology/

Maybe I just think different...

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i

RU Instruction for the use of hybrid educational rooms

https://www.ru.nl/lecturers/education/distance-learning/available-campus-facilities-online-hybrid/instruction-use-hybrid-educational-rooms/

Het hybride online/onsite college, deel 1 door Marleen Hofman:

https://www.ru.nl/docenten/actueel/blogs/@1281898/hybride-klas-deel-1-kun-alle-studenten-betrekken/

This Slate article on polluting AI aged well now we have BERT, GPT-3, T5, etc.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/artificial-intelligence-climate-change-carbon-emissions-roy-schwartz.html

Vaccines on RU campus, no appointment necessary.

https://www.ru.nl/nieuws-agenda/nieuws/coronavirus-radboud-universiteit/coronanieuws/@1322589/vaccineren-campus/

Gebruiksvriendelijkheid van Matomo vs. Google Analytics

https://nogadata.nl/2021/05/11/gebruiksvriendelijkheid.html

You share, we take care!

https://www.openaccess.nl/en/in-the-netherlands/you-share-we-take-care

ICIS (Institute for Computing and Information Sciences) takes action of open access!

https://www.ru.nl/library/library/library-locations/library-science/news/library-science/icis-takes-action-open-access/

Fien Ockers graduates on medication annotation using weak supervision

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2021/fien-ockers-graduates-on-medication-annotation-using-weak-supervision/