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Can you reduce the room temperature of your home and still feel comfortable? Can you keep up the habit of doing fewer loads of laundry? Yes and yes, according to the findings of the ENERGISE project, which challenged 300 households in eight countries to reduce their energy consumption.
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Many of us interact every day with Siri, Apple's voice-activated digital personal assistant. The machines are getting smarter, but experts are divided as to when we'll move from basic AI to the scarey stuff of science fiction, if at all. Almost 50% of American jobs are under threat over the next 15 years, and health care will probably get more expensive as AI increasingly gets involved in keeping us alive. But besides the benefits, what are the risks?
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On January 1, 2020, Dr. Jan van den Berg was appointed professor by special appointment of Plant Envirogenetics at the UM Faculty of Science & Engineering. It concerns an appointment of 0.2 FTE for five years.
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Annemie Schols, Professor of Nutrition and Metabolism in Chronic Diseases, has been appointed as the new dean of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML). She will begin her first four-year appointment on 1 June 2020.
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UM’s Katleen Gabriels is a moral philosopher, specialised in computer ethics. She looks into how morality and computer technologies influence each other. Her new book Rules for Robots. Ethics and Artificial Intelligence asks some questions that will need to be answered very soon.
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The Executive Board of Maastricht University (UM) has appointed Harald Merckelbach, professor of Forensic Psychology, as dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN). He will begin his first four-year appointment on 1 May 2020.
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The Brightlands Institute for Supply Chain Innovation had its first event at the Brightlands Greenport Campus hosting around 200 guests with exiting workshops around digital and sustainability.
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Pure and associated services, such as the Research Publications portal, are completely renewed. Pure was not available for weeks due to the cyber attack but has been back online since Monday 17 February. Preparations continued during the downtime so that the previously planned migration could be maintained without additional inconvenience for users.
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Healthy Living, Smart Living, Clean Air,
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German national TV channel Das Erste (ARD) visited DKE to discuss how Brexit may impact European research collaborations and students (TV fragment in German).