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Computer Science research results
In 2025 more than 20 computer science students completed their thesis project with support from ICT institute. In this article you can find the titles and topics of the completed research projects as well as some main results. The projects ranged from data science e-health AI applications to software prototypes for cybersecurity analytics. Research approach…
Pavlo Burda
A new radical AI Policy for research and education
Radical changes require radical solutions. This is a new policy for the use of AI in research that will solve all current problems caused by the opposition against the use of AI in education and research. It is applicable as of today at Dutch universities.
Sieuwert van Otterloo
Comparing cloud AI services against open source libraries for face detection
The three large cloud companies Google, Microsoft and Amazon offer cloud services for many AI tasks. Using these services has practical benefits but also strategic risks: when using a service, you have less control over your AI use. In order to gain insight into the pros and cons of AI services, Elif Kalkan has done…
Sieuwert van Otterloo
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 suitable for multiple techniques, including decision trees, linear regression, logistic regression and neural networks. Note: the dataset was updated in 2025, see a detailed description of the latest 2025 version…
Sieuwert van Otterloo
Using AI to count all the solar panels in the world
One photovoltaic solar energy generating unit, two photovoltaic solar energy generating units… Solar power generation is one option for decarbonising electricity production. However, if we don’t know how many solar panels there are in the world and where they are, we’re missing a piece of information about how well we are doing with with regard…
Suzanne Atkins