In the media
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'Europe loses AI battle'18 June 2018
Europe falls behind China and the United States in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), which creates a brain drain for talented students and sc...
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Geert de Snoo on lion conversation on radio Science07111 June 2018Together with colleagues and students, Professor of conservation biology Geert de Snoo studies the decline of the lion population in a national park ...
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Broad media coverage for Kavli prize Ewine van Dishoeck07 June 2018Ewine van Dishoeck was broadly covered in national and international media with her prestigious Kavli prize for astrophysics. She won 1 million dollar...
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Documentary Plastic Soup Surfer on National Geographic04 June 2018Biologist, artist, activist and Leiden alumnus Merijn Tinga supped the river Rijn in 28 days, to gain attention for plastic waste. His journey of more...
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Lucia Bossoni in Newsweek17 May 2018Newsweek has published a story on Leiden Alzheimer research led by physicist Lucia Bossoni.
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Newest book Menno Schilthuizen popular in international media07 May 2018The new book of Professor of Character evolution and biodiversity Menno Schilthuizen gained a lot of media attention. ‘Darwin comes to town – how the ...
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LIACS scientists in Dutch media on impact Cambridge Analytica storm27 March 2018This week Dutch newspapers NRC and de Volkskrant consulted scientists from the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) about the impact ...
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Radio broadcast on Leiden wall formulas on BNR26 February 2018BNR Radio has broadcast an item on the physics formulas that are painted on walls across the Leiden historic city center. The wall formulas are initia...
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Media Technology lecturers in NVON's magazine Terugkoppeling22 February 2018Maarten Lamers and Peter van der Putten were guest editors of magazine Terugkoppeling, the publication of the NVON (Dutch Association for Education in...
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Distinguished South African Minister visits Leiden as Honorary Professor20 February 2018On 26th and 27th February, the South African Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor will visit Leiden University as honorary Oort Visiting ...
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René Kleijn about low-carbon energy16 February 2018How will we generate energy without further contributing to global warming? Industrial ecologist René Kleijn tells about low-carbon energy in tv and r...
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Physics ice skating experiment in De Volkskrant12 February 2018Experimental physicist Tjerk Oosterkamp and theoretician Hans van Leeuwen conduct research on the exact mechanism behind ice skating. De Volkskrant pu...
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Fons Verbeek on computational bio-imaging at SleutelstadFM25 January 2018Professor Fons Verbeek of the computer science and biology institutes at Leiden University has the fascination to visualize everything we can not see ...
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Aske Plaat and Catholijn Jonker at BNR De Nieuwe Wereld23 January 2018In the BNR Newsradioprogram De Nieuwe Wereld, professors Aske Plaat (Data Science) and Catholijn Jonker (Explainable AI) of the computer science insti...
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Aske Plaat in NRC on AlphaZero's success22 January 2018Thanks to deep learning, computer program AlphaZero plays better chess than the best person. The computer wins because it can predict further ahead th...