Connecting history with computer sciences

News - 14 March 2019 - Communication BK

Researchers from BK Bouwkunde and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science at TU Delft have formed a partnership to connect Humanities and Computer Sciences. They will combine their interdisciplinary skills to connect long-term historical knowledge with cutting edge computer vision, geospatial technology,and crowd sourcing technology. 

The research is part of the Time Machine project, which is one of the six teams competing in the final round to become a FET flagship, a European Union science project funded with €1 billion. Over the next 12 months, the researchers will combine their interdisciplinary skills to win that final round. 

The Time Machine project is one of the six proposals retained for preparing large scale research initiatives to be strategically developed in the next decade. The European Commission has selected the proposal and granted €1 million in funding to prepare the detailed roadmaps of this initiative. Time Machine aims at extract and utilise the Big Data of the past. The project foresees to design and implement advanced new digitisation and Artificial Intelligence technologies to mine Europe’s vast cultural heritage. This will provide fair and free access to information that will support future scientific and technological developments in Europe.

The European Commission has chosen Time Machine as one of the six proposals retained for preparing large scale research initiatives to be strategically developed in the next decade. €1 million in funding has been granted for preparing the detailed roadmaps of this initiative that aims at extracting and utilising the Big Data of the past. Time Machine foresees to design and implement advanced new digitisation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to mine Europe’s vast cultural heritage, providing fair and free access to information that will support future scientific and technological developments in Europe. 

TU Delft researchers: Carola Hein and Tino Mager (Architecture, BK), Jantien Stoter and Hugo Ledoux (Urbanism, BK), Jan van Gemert (Intelligent Systems, EEMCS), and Christoph Lofi, Geert-Jan Houben, and Alessandro Bozzon (Web Information Systems, EEMCS).