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I still believe in the old Renaissance ideal of the universal man, not in the sense of knowing everything about everything but as the ambition to understand universal structures from different perspectives. The study of the category of information forms a unifying paradigm between science and the humanities. Art, science and business, all deal with information. Understanding the concept of information is one of the main scientific challenges of our time. Het kunstwerk als getal, Paradiso Lezing, 28 januari 2007 2006 The great digitization project In this I plan to make most of my scientific and artistic work accessible to through the web: papers, essays, sketches, paintings, movies, software etc. You can get a preview at pieteradriaans.com Current research interests: Learning as data compression Grammar induction Philosophy of information Information and Art

Professor of Learning and Adaptive Systems
www.uva.nl	Universiteit van Amsterdam
HCS Lab	Human Computer Studies
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