The Amsterdam University College (AUC) is a joint initiative of the two major research universities in Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam, to create a liberal arts and science undergraduate experience in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam University College demands excellence from its students, preparing them for high-level performance in a 21 st century knowledge economy that is fuelled by innovation and equipping them for today’s globally engaged culturally diverse society. www.auc.nl

The Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam at the University of Amsterdam performs fundamental, applied and spin-off research. The lab defines intelligence as observing and learning; observing the world by video, still pictures, signals and text and abstracting knowledge or decisions to act from these observations. The lab studies hard scientific problems from real data with real applications. We typically analyze visual or textual data derived from video repositories, the Internet, or any other kind of sensory data: search engine logs, feeds, hand-held video recordings, mobile robot observations and so on all in order to understand its content. http://www.science.uva.nl/research/isla/

The Center for Creation, Content and Technology is the University of Amsterdam and the Hogeschool of Amsterdam’s response to the scientific, scholarly, design and educational challenges that digital content presents us with. It brings together the University of Amsterdam’s acknowledged strengths in Informatics, Media Studies, and Communication Theory, and the Hogeschool of Amsterdam’s Medialab in a unique multi-disciplinary setting. http://ccct.uva.nl