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On May 3, 2010 the Alumni umbrella association at University of Zurich and Starmind have closed a collaboration agreement.

The Alumni association of university of Zurich unites 20 member associations representing all faculties of university of Zurich. University of Zurich (UZH) is the largest university in Switzerland with student numbers exceeding 25’000.

The international Starmind network shall further increase the number of active Alumni UZH members while synergies and measures are conducted together. The agreement defines a dedicated Starmind access and exclusive features for Alumni members so as to facilitate know-how exchange. Also, Starmind helps to increase the visibility of outstanding talents and strengthens the expanding Alumni network.

Starmind welcomes the new Alumni members on Starmind! For more information please refer to the press release.

Amancio Bouza, 31, Zürich, Switzerland
I’m a doctoral student at the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich. I’m doing research in the field of machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, Semantic Web technologies and it’s application to collaborative filtering-based recommender systems.

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Starmind Status
Starmind Master

7 questions, 7 answers from Amancio Bouza

1.) If I was awarded a Nobel prize it would be in the field of….
…imagination.

2.) On the other hand, my sore points are…
…expecting too much from anyone, especially from myself.

3.) I share my know-how on Starmind because…
…of intrinsic motivation and because I think my know-how may be of value.

4.) The most interesting Starmind question so far was…
…”How many leafs hang on all trees on earth?”, by Susanne Guldner. I’m fascinated about such questions that are not solvable with knowledge solely, but with know-how.

5.) When I am not busy answering Starmind questions I…
…spend time implementing crazy ideas and challenge myself among other things with training my self for my first Marathon and gathering new knowledge to get new perspectives on understanding problems and be prepared facing them

6.) I believe that in ten years…
…the evolution of mankind’s knowledge and the world will be just impressive.

7.) If I ruled the world…
…it will end in a great disaster because complex dynamic systems such as our world are self-oganizing and self-repairing systems that cannot  and shouldn’t be ruled by a single instance.

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