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Summerschool in Human Centered AI
Every year Utrecht University and Utrecht University of Applied Sciences organize a series of summer course for international student that want to learn more about an advanced topic and also visit Utrecht. One of the most popular courses is the one week course “Introduction to AI and Machine Learning” led by Sietske Tacoma, Pavlo Burda…
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Fairness definitions explained and illustrated with examples
Burda, P. and Van Otterloo, S 2025. Fairness definitions explained and illustrated with examples. Computers and Society Research Journal (2025), 2 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54822/PASR6281 Abstract Algorithms are increasingly used to make or support decisions, such as recruitment and selection, loan approval, fraud detection, classification and prediction. This has raised important questions on how to assure the…
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AI audits
Companies making or using high risk AI systems must do AI audits and assessments to comply with the AI Act. We do these audits in a practical constructive manner, based on our technical and legal experience.
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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…
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Legocolor: a computer vision dataset for learning datascience
The Legocolor dataset is a new dataset designed to test common data science techniques such as k-nearest neighbour and decision trees. The dataset consists of color samples (red, green and blue value) from real world images of Lego and the official lego color of the brick, and the goal is to train a model to…
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