Locality and Identity: Henri Maclaine Pont and the Politics of Representation in the Late Colonial Dutch East Indies

This paper investigates issues of representation, interpretation, and difference in architecture in colonial and racialised environments, through a case study of the work of Dutch engineer, architect, and archaeologist Henri Maclaine Pont in the late colonial Dutch East Indies. Pont extensively surveyed regional Javanese building forms, and...

Greening up my sports club: A qualitative exploration of sustainability transformation at Dutch sports clubs

The societal need for sustainability transformation is crucial in light of climate change, and the role of individual action and behavioural changes is considered critical in meeting the Paris agreement. Radical shifts in social norms are required, which could be achieved through reaching social tipping points. These tipping points could be...

Nonlinear System Identification and Control for Autonomous Robots

Most robots receive information about their own dynamics or about their environment before starting to work on their tasks. This makes them less fit for operating in unknown environments without human supervision. In this thesis, the goal is to let a robot learn the relation between its actions and perceptions autonomously. This problem is...

Memristors: One step closer towards electrical brains

The memristor is an electronic component which was invented in theory by Leon Chua in 1971, based on logics and symmetry. In 2008, HP Labs has realized an actual memristor on the nanoscale level for the first time in history. Since then, a lot of researchers have focused their attention on the memristor. It is one of the fundamental passive...

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