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On Oct. 1st 2021 Prof. Dr. Nicholas Ayache received the postponed ninth International Steven Hoogendijk Award from the hands of our Praeses Magnificus Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb in the Burgerzaal of the Rotterdam City Hall.

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Prof. Ayache was nominated for the Award for his groundbreaking work in the area of Artificial Intelligence, first in the field of autonomous robots and their capacity to process visual information from their environment and later in the fields of medical image computing and computer assisted interventions and his efforts to bring this knowledge into practical use by starting seven StartUps.

In the morning a mini-symposium was held under the auspices of Prof.dr. Sander van Deventer with two StartUps: DEARhealth and Quantib and a panel discussion with Prof. Daan Hommes (DEARhealth), Jorrit Glastra (Quantib) and Prof. Ayache who closed the meeting with this presentation.

In the afternoon our President Prof.dr. Maikel Peppelenbosch opened the ceremony and introduced Prof.dr. Wiro Niessen with a lecture on AI in medical applications, Prof.dr.ir. Inald Lagendijk with the Laudation and Mayor Aboutaleb.

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And afterwards drinks were served at the Maritime Museum where we looked at one of the few surviving possessions of our society: a model of the shipscamel for the fregat Neptunus.