Our research group received several awards at the IBM Extreme Blue Expo 2015. In this event, an array of speakers from IBM, Academia and the startup community presented their latest findings. The Shared University Research Award was granted to the Web & Media group of the VU University Amsterdam. This award is a global initiative by IBM to stimulate science and the collaboration between IBM and scientists. Furthermore, Lora Aroyo received a faculty award for her work on our project CrowdTruth, and Anca Dumitrache reveived a PhD Fellowship award for her work on medical relation extraction.
As part of the shared university research award we received access to the Watson Engagement Advisor Research platform, which will be used for collaborative research on methods for the training and evaluation of IBM Watson. In the upcoming months we will jointly host a Watson innovation course for students and Watson masterclasses for professionals. More info will follow on this at a later stage.