We welcome you on May 10th to the Donalnd Smits Center on the Zernike
campus ( see Directions). Our program runs between 10am and 4pm. We have prepared for you:
Starting every hour from 10:00am, 11:00am, 13:00 and 14:00 come to
Take a tour through our data center, which is the second largest academic computer center in
the country, guided by our data technology experts. They will show you the hidden wonders of our Big Data jungle.
Immerse yourself in the 20 min journey through our solar system, explore planets around other stars (exoplanets),
travel to the Orion Nebula and more in our high-tech visualization theater with a 20m curved screen illuminated by 6 projectors.
Learn how the knowledge and expertise within Target push the frontier of our understanding across domains like astronomy, medical
research, healthy aging, historical text recognition, smart environments, sustainability and more.
Big Data Knowledge Cafe
From 15:00 - 16:00
What’s your Big Question about Big Data? Get together over coffee and pose your questions to our experts. The most challenging question wins a prize.
...and the winner is...
How much do you know about Big Data? Take our quiz and you may win two tickets to a movie in the Infoversum
opening doors to the public in the center of Groningen in mid June. The Infoversum is the only 3D digital fulldome theater in the Netherlands!
Recording is not reading
How much faster than you can a computer read a handwritten text? Teach computers how to
read handwritten manuscripts from the Royal Dutch historical collection and observe what fast learners they are! During the day, we will run a demo of the Monk system
for handwritten text recognition which used Big Data and artificial intelligence to train computers to read.
