The project ‘Integration and Social Mobility: The Descendants of Early Modern Immigrants in Amsterdam, 1660-1811’ addresses one of the major questions in Dutch migration history: what happened to the descendants of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who migrated to the Dutch Republic in the early modern period? Today, nearlyContinue Reading
Melvin Wevers, coordinator of the Amsterdam Time Machine, has been selected as a fellow for the 4th edition of Intercontinental Academia (ICA) on “Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence”. During the program, a group of fellows and mentors explores fundamental interdisciplinary questions at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence,Continue Reading
Hi, I’m Daan, an interdisciplinary master-student of urban and architectural history. These last few months, I worked as an intern for the Amsterdam Time Machine. As part of my internship, supervised by Melvin Wevers and Chiara Piccoli, I evaluated Google’s new tool Rǝ. It’s pronounced ‘Return’, but we usually referContinue Reading
This project focuses on data from the Amsterdam Address book of 1907. Names of persons and companies, their professions and addresses were extracted using regular expressions. The addresses were aligned with Adamlink streets and HisGis location points. In the alignment process, streets that were not yet present in the AdamlinkContinue Reading
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