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Green light for Leiden supercomputer 22 June 2018
From simulations of galaxies to analyses of MRI scans: scientific research needs more and more computing power. Leiden University is planning to set ...
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How can we connect data science and law? 26 April 2018
At the Hague University of Applied Sciences, a stakeholder meeting took place on 4 April in the context of peace and justice in a digital world. The m...
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Wessel Kraaij director of Data Science Research Programme 27 February 2018
Prof.dr.ir. Wessel Kraaij is appointed director of the Data Science Research Programme (DSRP) at Leiden University, starting March 1st. He is the succ...
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Symposium with first cohort of Data Science PhD students 31 January 2018
On Tuesday, January 30th, the first symposium of the Data Science Research Programme took place at the Sylvius Building.
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Magnifying the minute 11 January 2018
Making all those things we normally cannot see visible is the challenge that fascinates Fons Verbeek, Leiden's new Professor of Computational Bio-Imag...
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Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is Discoverer of the Year 2017 09 January 2018
With a large majority of votes, drug researcher Alireza Mashaghi Tabari was chosen Discoverer of the Year 2017 of the Faculty of Science. This was ann...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year 2017 14 December 2017
Suzan Verberne is nominated by the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) to be granted the C.J. Kok Public Award, also known as the aw...
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More effective data-driven policymaking 04 December 2017
More collaboration, combining data and asking the right questions. These are a few of the recommendations that policymakers and researchers formulated...
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Joost Kok appointed to be new Dean of University of Twente’s EEMCS Faculty 15 November 2017
Joost Kok, Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Science, has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and ...
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Making policy with big data 14 November 2017
Governments have increasing amounts of data at their disposal. How can big data be used in policymaking? And are governments ready to deal with all th...
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With artificial intelligence to new physics 02 November 2017
The particle accelerator of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, produces large amounts of complex data with high accuracy, as a resu...
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Artificial intelligence to extend, not replace human capabilities 26 October 2017
Computers are increasingly able to accomplish tasks that are difficult for human experts, such as diagnosing diseases or detecting credit card fraud. ...
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Integrating data to learn more 04 October 2017
Tremendous amounts of data are generated in scientific research each day. Most of this data has more potential than we are using now, says Katy Wolste...
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'Data science enables us to develop new tools' 18 August 2017
PhD students Alex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart are both doing a project within the university’s Data Science research programme. The ar...
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‘Behaviour comes to us in big data’ 15 August 2017
Jurist Gineke Wiggers wants to predict the expected impact of legal articles. Carel Stolker, Rector of the University and, like Wiggers, a legal speci...