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Children's stories as inspiration for an artificial brain23 July 2019Max van Duijn, Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), has been awarded a Veni grant for his research into c...
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How public money for science leads to new medicines22 July 2019Public funding for fundamental research is essential for innovation and the development of new medicines. This is demonstrated by Professor Science Ba...
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Chinese whispers in the name of science at Lowlands18 July 2019As long as we humans have existed, we have told each other stories. But how does a story change each time it is told? Which elements stick and which o...
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These are the seven Veni winners of the Faculty of Science16 July 2019The Faculty of Science has received no less than seven Veni grants this year. Camila Correa, Max van Duijn, Stéphanie van der Pas, Sergii Pud, Mónica ...
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Six Computer Science master students excel and go to Oxford04 July 2019Six master students of the Computer Science programme will present their papers on future cities at the NetMob conference in Oxford. The six papers we...
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Detecting and comparing sign languages28 June 2019For his PhD project, computer scientist Manolis Fragkiadakis is developing a tool that can compare videos of sign language corpora. This would make it...
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A digital eye for archaeologists25 June 2019Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart is refining an artificial intelligence system that can detect and classify archaeological objects on digital images. Su...
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Building a bridge between data science and the social and behavioural sciences25 June 2019What is the best living environment for dementia patients? To answer this question, Daniela Gawehns is using data mining methods to search through dif...
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The patient forum as a goldmine25 June 2019Patients with certain diseases discuss their experiences and support one another on specialised internet forums. With the right data-science methods, ...
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Searching for 27 million patterns in 6,000 tax treaties24 June 2019PhD candidate Manon Wintgens is using an algorithm to trawl through thousands of international tax treaties. She hopes to detect a system in the dizzy...
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Self-learning machines for better understanding of the universe13 June 2019Bright explosions appear all over the radio and gravitational-wave sky. This dynamic side of the universe which has just been discovered, can be mappe...
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Student team hopes to heal skin with squid protein03 June 2019Eleven ambitious Leiden students hope to heal burns with a special substance from squid teeth. They are taking part in the international iGEM competit...
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Yoga, inclusiveness and dilemma game at first Science PhD Day26 April 2019Morning yoga, having your resumé checked at the information market, or dancing for inclusiveness: just a small selection of the activities of the firs...
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LIACS part of Horizon 2020 project about social media analytics25 April 2019Since January 2019, The Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science is part of the RISE_SMA project. In this European project 6 universities, in co...
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Geert de Snoo new Director of Netherlands Institute of Ecology04 April 2019Professor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, has been appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIO...