In the media
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From intuition to data 03 April 2020
Dutch speedskaters have been winning the most medals in speed skating at the Winter Olympics for years. How? Based on their intuition. Scientist Jeroe...
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Looking to distract the kids while you work from home? Get them programming! 25 March 2020
Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and qui...
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‘Holland, invest in the national AI-ecosystem’ 27 February 2020
The European Commission published new plans on artificial intelligence on 19 February. According to Holger Hoos, professor in Machine Learning at the ...
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Improving football skills using data-mining 10 February 2020
Using positional data to determine which tactics lead to a successful attack? Rens Meerhoff, researcher at the Sports Data Center of the Leiden Instit...
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More accurate estimation of cross-border internet purchases 05 December 2019
How can cross-border internet purchases be accurately estimated? Researchers Quinten Meertens, Cees Diks, Jaap van den Herik and Frank Takes of the Le...
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Computer program AlphaStar reaches professional level in video game StarCraft II 21 November 2019
For the first time, a computer can compete with the very best human players in StarCraft II, a video game played by tens of thousands at a professiona...
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‘Nothing is so special about human intelligence, that it cannot be replicated in a machine’ 07 November 2019
Is the possibility of computers making decisions for us in the future realistic? Holger Hoos, professor of Machine Learning, gives his opinion about t...
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Danica Mast in Mare on using technology to move people 09 April 2019
Danica Mast, PhD candidate at LIACS, investigates how technology can encourage people to move more. In Mare she explains more about the so-called exer...
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Computer scientists from Leiden and Eindhoven optimise building designs 17 December 2018
The design process of new buildings is extremely complex due to strict requirements. Computer models are used to create the designs. Scientists from L...
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Arie-Willem de Leeuw in Mare on using big data to run marathons 27 November 2018
Arie-Willem de Leeuw, Postdoc at LIACS, analysed the running data of the Boston Marathon. In Mare he explains how to optimise your long distance runs.
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CLAIRE in I/O magazine 08 October 2018
The October 2018 issue of I/O magazine, the quarterly magazine of ICT-research Platform Netherlands (IPN), includes coverage of CLAIRE.
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Lise Stork in Mare on digitising natural history collections 21 September 2018
Lise Stork, PhD candidate at LIACS, was interviewed by Mare about how to smartly digitise the collections of natural history museums.
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Alumni MSc Media Technology on BBC World with spin-off company 07 September 2018
Bike Labyrinth is international market leader in providing virtual reality exercising for elderly care.
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Holger Hoos in NRC about AI brain drain 28 August 2018
Dutch newspaper NRC contacted four Dutch universities regarding the brain drain in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is going on in the N...
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Frank Takes on NPO Radio 1 about big data 30 June 2018
Frank Takes, Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), analyses the flow of funds in our economy using big da...