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Google gift for quantum research20 October 2021Assistant Professor Vedran Dunjko and his team receive a €100,000 gift from Google to support them in their quantum research. The research focuses on ...
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CLAIRE wins prestigious Artificial Intelligence prize07 October 2021AI networks CLAIRE and ELLIS have jointly won the prestigious German Artificial Intelligence prize. The WELT newspaper awarded the prize, worth 100,00...
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Quinten Meertens nominated for Christiaan Huygens Science Prize 202105 October 2021Is it acceptable for an algorithm to make mistakes? Quinten Meertens investigated this at Leiden University and the UvA and has been nominated with hi...
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Quantum Leiden creates potential for a great quantum future05 October 2021Friday afternoon, 1 October. Location: one of the most vibration-free places in the world. In this setting, Leiden top scientists launched Quantum Lei...
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New lecture series: Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)13 September 2021On September 15th a new series of lectures will start, the Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA). This series of events is aimed at dissem...
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A summer abroad, but then virtually13 September 2021For many students, a summer school abroad is a fun and useful way to spend the summer. This year, because of the travel restrictions, many summer scho...
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AI Journal prominent paper award winners02 September 2021Professor of Machine learning Holger Hoos together with Frank Hutter, Lin Xu and Kevin Leyton-Brown won the prestigious Artificial Intelligence Journa...
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Summer camp, but behind a laptop.21 July 2021From Monday 19 July onwards, eighteen children between the ages of 10 and 12 are learning the programming language Hedy. In the Snellius building of L...
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Artificial intelligence can discriminate. How can this be prevented?05 July 2021What do gender identity and digital technology have to do with each other? Together they are the subject of research at Leiden University. Researchers...
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‘Data science has crept into the faculties’ DNA’05 July 2021From 14 to 29 PhD candidates, seven actively involved faculties and, above all, lots of innovative interdisciplinary research, all with data science a...
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Dutch and Japanese researchers collaborate with leading quantum software developer Qu&Co29 June 2021Vedran Dunjko (LIACS and applied Quantum algorithms (aQa) Leiden) and Tomoyuki Morimae (Kyoto University) are to collaborate with Qu&Co. Qu&Co is a le...
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Sustainability and energy: AI research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam29 June 2021From energy transition to the nitrogen crisis: artificial intelligence can be of great help. Researchers from the three universities in Zuid-Holland a...
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Growing super legs for the Tour de France with the aid of Leiden data science25 June 2021Only the fittest cyclists stand a chance of taking yellow in the brutal Tour de France. Team Jumbo-Visma is working with data scientists from Leiden. ...
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A good start for every child, and how data science can help24 June 2021Some children start life with a disadvantage. Sometimes even before they are born. A new research project involving Professor Wessel Kraaij of Leiden ...
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The future of quantum08 June 2021What does the future of quantum look like? Vedran Dunjko (Assistant professor at LIACS and LION) is co-founder of the applied quantum algorithms (aQa)...