A team including staff from Leiden University won the Open Initiative Trophy on 11 February, a prize for the best open science initiative in the Nethe...

Heavy rainfall can cause streets to flood and basements and tunnels to overflow. Jan van Rijn investigated, together with Christiaan Lamers (formerly ...

The Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2021 goes to Felienne Hermans, associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. She receives...

Bringing the theoretical world of mathematics and computer science to more applied research areas. That is what Daan Pelt, assistant professor at the ...

On 13 January 2020, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named 95 members ACM Fellows who have demonstrated excellence across many discip...

Learning how computers can process and describe images just like human beings do. It is one of the key elements of the research of Michael Lew, who se...

In health care, artificial intelligence is quite normal: it is used, for example, as an aid in making diagnoses. However, artificial intelligence is n...

The cloud is of increasing importance in our daily lives. It is thus crucial that they work properly and are reliable. Alex Uta, assistant professor a...

How can I teach children programming in a playful way? That's the question Felienne Hermans asked herself when she gave programming lessons to childre...

By making smart use of available data, the health and care of people can be substantially improved. Marco Spruit wants to use language and machine lea...

Alzheimer’s disease and cancer are two examples of diseases that are related to malfunctioning cellular patterns. The examination of cell tissue, howe...

The quantum computer is on its way, but is society ready for it? Quantum computers have a reputation of being difficult to grasp because of their comp...

Reinforcement learning, agents and classification: these are just some of the topics researchers on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning discu...

What do children think about computer science and the profession 'programmer'? Shirley de Wit and her colleagues from the Programming Education Resear...

Eleven Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant will enable them to develop their research ide...