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Big Data in development and humanitarian aid: next step in privacy debate 20 October 2015
How can ‘Big Data’ be used in development and humanitarian aid, and what are the risks? Leiden University and the United Nation’s Global Pulse are org...
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Leiden University partner in research on handwriting and image recognition 20 October 2015
The Leiden Centre of Data Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science are part of a consortium that will carry out research on makin...
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Barend Mons appointed Chair of European Commission’s High Level Expert Group 17 September 2015
Professor Barend Mons has been appointed Chair of the Commission High Level Expert Group "European Open Science Cloud", initiated by the European Comm...
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Spinoza Prize for Leiden statistician Aad van der Vaart 12 June 2015
Aad van der Vaart, professor of stochastics at Leiden University, has been awarded the NWO Spinoza Prize for his groundbreaking research in statistics...
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Data science can reduce likelihood of virus outbreaks 07 April 2015
Data science is of vital importance in preventing future outbreaks of viruses, Professor of Data Science Aske Plaat argues. Inaugural lecture entitled...
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LIACS receives NWO grant in Challenging Big Data program 30 October 2014
The Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) received a grant award from NWO for a joint proposal with Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CW...
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Jaap van den Herik wins Humies Award 2014 08 September 2014
The paper Genetic Algoriths for Evolving Computer Chess Programs by Omid E. David, Jaap van den Herik, Moshe Koppel, Nathan S. Netanyahu has won the H...