«Hoewel Europese partners tot nu toe het MOBAK-test- en ondersteuningsconcept uitsluitend in offline school LO hebben gebruikt – zonder het gebruik van digitale hulpmiddelen centraal te stellen –, biedt het huidige kader de basis voor een implementatie in digitale vorm. Meer precies bestaat het volgende …

Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of secondary services and facilities provided by Human Facility Management (HFM) on the Work-Life-Balance (WLB) of employees working in office environments in the Netherlands and Germany. The study aims to explore the contribution …

Although ISO25000 claimed in 2011 that “the characteristics defined … are relevant to all software products and computer systems”, by now ISO is working on an specific SQuaRE version for AI systems. While waiting for that update I took (grey) literature on quality of AI systems as a starting point to …

Recently, the job market for Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineers has exploded. Since the role of AI engineer is relatively new, limited research has been done on the requirements as set by the industry. Moreover, the definition of an AI engineer is less established than for a data scientist or a software …

Het eten wat op ons bord ligt heeft steeds meer kilometers afgelegd voor het daar terecht is gekomen. Een opkomend alternatief is voedsel uit zogenoemde ‘korte ketens’, waarbij geprobeerd wordt de afstand tussen producent en consument – zowel fysiek als mentaal - te verkleinen. Maar wat is de capaciteit …

Dit is de vijfde en vooralsnog laatste meting van de maatschappelijke impact van COVID-19 in Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam en Nederland.1 De eerste meting vond plaats in april 2020 in het begin van de coronapandemie. Vanaf deze eerste meting hebben we de impact van de coronapandemie op verschillende …

In my previous post on AI engineering I defined the concepts involved in this new discipline and explained that with the current state of the practice, AI engineers could also be named machine learning (ML) engineers. In this post I would like to 1) define our view on the profession of applied AI engineer …

This chapter discusses how to build production-ready machine learning systems. There are several challenges involved in accomplishing this, each with its specific solutions regarding practices and tool support. The chapter presents those solutions and introduces MLOps (machine learning operations, also …

Over the past three years we have built a practice-oriented, bachelor level, educational programme for software engineers to specialize as AI engineers. The experience with this programme and the practical assignments our students execute in industry has given us valuable insights on the profession of …

The past two years I have conducted an extensive literature and tool review to answer the question: “What should software engineers learn about building production-ready machine learning systems?”. During my research I noted that because the discipline of building production-ready machine learning systems …