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The ICTI list of influential computer scientists
Computer, science, AI and privacy-law are often described as new fields of research. This maybe was the case in 1990, but as of now these fields are old: The solutions to most current problems in society are already invented years ago, but not well-remembered. To help ourselves and other people remember all the work, we…
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A checklist for auditing AI systems
As the use of AI increases, the potential impact of using wrong AI system increases as well. It is therefore recommended and often required to audit AI systems. We have talked to several IT auditors and privacy experts to make a checklist on what should be considered when auditing an AI system.
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The Utrecht housing dataset – example dataset for prediction
The Utrecht housing dataset is a freely available dataset that can be used by students to learn about data science and machine learning. It is a synthetic dataset that was derived from actual data about the Dutch hoursing market. Since it is synthetic, it containt no noise, high qulaity data and comes in three different…
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Compliance for AI in healthcare companies: a survey into GDPR and AIA compliance
Yasmine Yachou, an MSc student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is conducting research into the impact of data laws on healthcare startups and scale-ups. The thesis research is completed.
Yasmine Yachou
Practical bias correction in neural networks: A credit default prediction case study
Snel, P. and van Otterloo, S. 2022. Practical bias correction in neural networks: A credit default prediction case study, Computers and Society Research Journal (2022), 3 https://doi.org/10.54822/BEWO3288 Piet Snel and Sieuwert van Otterloo Email: sieuwert@ictinstitute.nl Article published online 11 May 2022. Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used for decision-making. Technological developments have significantly…
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