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Four million euros for DIGITAL TWIN program21 November 2019The five-year DIGITAL TWIN program can start as NWO granted 4 million euros from the Perspective program. With this grant, 19 new researchers will be ...
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Joost Visser appointed as professor of Large Scale Software and Data Science19 November 2019On 15 November Joost Visser started as Professor of Large Scale Software and Data Science at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS...
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CRITTERS Exposition: a photo impression07 November 2019From November 4 to 10, the exposition CRITTERS will be exhibited in Naturalis Biodiversity Center during Beyond Human Festival. In CRITTERS artists an...
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Translation Beauty and Joy of Computing may convince girls to choose computer science31 October 2019Programming courses are often only available in English. All the more reason for the Programming Education Research Lab (PERL) of the Leiden Institute...
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Leiden University champion of the Benelux in programming contest22 October 2019On October 19, the annual Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest took place in Nijmegen. The team ‘git merge -s octopus solution cup’ of Leiden Univers...
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LIACS part of AI-driven VR-film08 October 2019During this year's Dutch Film Festival (NFF), which took place from 27 September to 5 October in Utrecht, a new Artificial Intelligence-driven Virtual...
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Record sum Leiden Science Run for refugee scholars01 October 2019The Leiden Science Run 2019 has raised a record sum of 12,135 euros for refugee student foundation UAF. No less than 101 teams – also a record – and t...
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Michiel Kreutzer new Dean of the Faculty of Science26 September 2019Professor Michiel Kreutzer has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. He will take up the role on 1 January 2020. At p...
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Over fifty scientists come together for MACODA25 September 2019In the week of 16 – 21 September, an international group of more than 50 scientists met at the Many Criteria Optimization and Decision Analysis (MACOD...
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The Netherlands as an international centre for quantum technology17 September 2019State secretary Mona Keijzer received the National Agenda on Quantum Technology from Robbert Dijkgraaf on 16 September. With this agenda, Dutch knowle...
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Computer science students second-best in national hacking competition10 September 2019On September 7, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science participated with a team of six students in the first edition of the Capture the Fla...
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Dialogue, collaboration and quantum: opening academic year Faculty of Science03 September 2019With a call for dialogue and collaboration, vice dean Bart de Smit kicked off the new academic year for the Faculty of Science on Tuesday 3 September....
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Gravitation Grant for innovative outlook on the social and ethical challenges of new technology30 August 2019Leading scientists in the field of the ethics and philosophy of technology are currently revising time-honoured key philosophical concepts such as aut...
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Gravitation Grant for combining human and artificial intelligence30 August 2019The project Hybrid Intelligence receives 19 million euros from the Gravitation programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The consortium consists ...
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Fifty percent chance you've reacted to junk news at least once22 August 2019A new article, published by researchers from the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science and the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics in the ...