News and Events: Miscellaneous

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    New ILLC blog post "Addressing Diversity – A Multifaceted Endeavour"

    In recent years, more attention has started to be paid to diversity within academia. How is the ILLC working on inclusivity and respect for all identities?

  • Visiting assistant professor position in semantics, New York (U.S.A.)

    The Department of Linguistics at New York University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) in the area of semantics. This is a one-year teaching position with a course load of 4 courses per year at the graduate and the undergraduate level (2 courses each). The appointment will begin on September 1, 2024, subject to budgetary and administrative approval.

    For more information, see https://apply.interfolio.com/138938 or contact Chris Barker at .
  • The book "A Brief History of Mathematics for Curious Minds" by Krzysztof R. Apt appeared

    The book A Brief History of Mathematics for Curious Minds by Krzysztof R. Apt appeared. It "offers a short and accessible account of the history of mathematics, written for the intelligent layman".
    Details and endorsements can be found at
    https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/13518#t=aboutBook
    Preface and the chapter about mathematics in the 20th and 21st centuries can be freely downloaded.
    For more information, see https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/13518#t=aboutBook or contact Krzysztof Apt at .
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    How do you humanise talking machines (but without the bad parts)?

    Last year, AI systems that can write almost human-like texts made a breakthrough worldwide. However, many academic questions on how exactly these systems work remain unanswered. Three UvA researchers are working on making the underlying language models more transparent, reliable and human.