In the media
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How can the voices of African scientists be heard? 22 November 2023African researchers want more international research collaborations for better representation in the scientific community. As of now, their voices are...
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Translational data science: applications in health care 05 October 2023How can you tie together scientific research and practical applications? That is exactly what Professor of Translational Data Science Marco Spruit is ...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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The search for a ‘quantum advantage’ 12 December 2022Proving a quantum computer to be quicker than a normal one is one step closer. After a breakthrough in speeding up classical algorithms, researchers V...
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Leiden Legal Technologies Program runner up for Gouden Zandloper 28 September 2022The Leiden Legal Technologies Program is runner up for the Gouden Zandloper (Golden Hourglass) for Legal Education & Research, the prize for the most ...
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Peter van der Putten on Robo Rabbi and a robot that performs funeral rituals 16 November 2021Can a robot rekindle the waning interest in Buddhism in Japan? University lecturer Peter van der Putten researches the philosophical and social questi...
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Football is simple. What is difficult is playing simple football. 16 June 2021And that is what scientist Rens Meerhoff of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) explains in the NPO Radio 1 programme Focus. He ...
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Data science helps in speed skating race for gold 15 February 2021Winning gold in speed skating at the Olympic Games is not just a matter of training hard; data science can also lend a hand. Jeroen van der Eb of the ...
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Programming to understand the world 01 February 2021‘We are surrounded by software and thus it is important that every child learns to program,’ says Felienne Hermans, associate professor at the Leiden ...
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Felienne Hermans explains why you should talk to your computer 11 January 2021Why should you talk to your computer? When children start learning how to read, they do so by using their voice and speaking the words out loud. In th...
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Programming is easy to learn 21 December 2020The easy-to-learn programming language Hedy has been used more than 100,000 times in no more than 9 months. Felienne Hermans was a guest in the broadc...
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Technique from new cars helps with surgery selection Parkinson's disease 09 November 2020When parking in reverse, your car skids off just a little, hitting the wall of the parking garage. On the car dashboard, a warning light immediately s...
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Bots like you 05 October 2020Can we study what makes us human through the eyes of a robot? Peter van der Putten and Maarten Lamers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Sci...
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Six-feet society in pictures 06 May 2020The six-feet society is being built up rapidly; arrows and planes made of tape, circles and stripes of chalk, fences and other barriers are popping up...
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Programming resembles learning a language 06 April 2020What languages do you speak? According to Felienne Hermans, ‘Python’ could be an answer to this question. Hermans studies how people learn to program ...