Positioning paper bij de inauguratie van Vincent Voet als lector Circular Plastics.

Cities are very significant for the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations as they are responsible for more than 70% of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Within this context, the European Union has a mission for climate-neutral and smart cities, including decarbonization …

Gastcollege voor de minor Future Planet Innovations van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, i.s.m. Marion van Rijssel

The COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly affected all aspects of our daily lives worldwide. Each country on the planet has set its measures to protect and restrict the freedom of the individual to be protected. In this context, distance work and education have been significantly utilized. However, several studies …

Psychologist and computerscientist Geoffrey Hinton, called the godfather of AI, argued that we should stop with A(G)I. In this column it is argued that Artificial General Intelligence like ChatGPT works very differently than organic intelligence. An organic complexity works like a chain reaction. Unlike …

In order to be able to do paid work, it is a condition that people also do reproductive work. Raising children, taking care of the house, running errands, taking care of the community (family, neighbours), etc. all this is also necessary work. No paid work without this so-called reproductive work. There …

Coronaire hartziekte ofwel coronair lijden is de grootste oorzaak van sterfte van alle chronische aandoeningen in Europa. Om te kunnen herstellen van deze ziekte is verbetering van de fysieke activiteit één van de belangrijkste onderdelen voor een gezonde leefstijl. Fysieke activiteit vermindert namelijk …

Technology has always been a very distinctive feature of human existence. Technology is to humans what nature is to other organisms: our host. Man is nature, but through technology – humans came to stand against nature and its biodiversity; technology is now a global enterprise, advancing on a scale …

Despite continuous improvement, lifelong learning, and plan-do-check-act cycles, every new day the planet is a little worse off than the day before! In the first 10 months of this year alone, an area the size of the Netherlands has been deforested and twice that area has been added to desert! Technology …

In recent years the demand for entertainment has increased due to changing patterns and consumption habits of users globally. This demand requires many entertainment studios to produce more content which requires more 3D assets to match the demand while upholding the quality of its work. One of these …