VideoLectures.NET is a website for academic talks launched February 6, 2007. It is based at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, Europe. It functions as a training portal for many Networks of Excellence[1], Integrated Projects and STRePs. All content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0[2] and offers to the scientific, research, business and general public the largest collection of content quality, peer-reviewed videos that are enriched with slides. In 2009 it has won the World Summit Award in the category of e-Science and Technology.[3] The vast majority of talks are from the subject of Computer Science, specifically from Data Mining, Semantic Web, Machine learning and also Complex systems coming from conferences around the world such as ICML, NIPS, ECML PKDD, SIGKDD[4]. It hosts free online video lectures from open learning incentives such as MIT OpenCourseWare[5], and many others. Its videos are from research subjects of Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, and mostly Computer Science. There has been extensive talks within the research community about the usefulness of such a video website with positive outcomes[6].
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The pilot project seminars.ijs.si was started by Department for Knowledge Technologies at Jožef Stefan Institute in early 2001 with an enthusiastic pace by Marko Grobelnik and Sebastjan Mislej, where the main idea was to record and provide online a weekly section of Solomon seminars held at the institute.