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The mission of Felienne Hermans04 April 2019‘A woman with a mission’. In this honourable way, Dean Geert de Snoo described computer scientist Felienne Hermans at the official opening of her new ...
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These are the five Leiden highlights of ICT.OPEN01 April 2019The ICT.OPEN conference had no less than five Leiden highlights. PhD candidate Anna Louise Latour won the pitch prize of 500 euros and PhD candidate C...
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Free symposium reveals surprising uses of AI26 March 2019Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help humans in many different ways: from customised medicine and self-driving cars to preserving our cultural heritag...
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Tyron Offerman: ‘One straight line from when I was 5 to now’21 March 2019Tyron Offerman wants to get the most out of life. This 28-year-old computer scientist and business economics graduate has an impressive three jobs: IT...
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International consortia: the future for science?18 March 2019We increasingly look at international consortia to come up with scientific and technological advances that are needed to address global challenges in ...
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Major steps towards realising a bold vision for European Excellence in AI15 March 2019
The Confederation of Laboratories of Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE), Europe’s grassroots organisation of scientists and experts i...
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PNAS Paper Prize for quantum machine learning14 March 2019‘We hope our paper highlights the possibilities and benefits of including artificial intelligence in quantum physics to do new discoveries.’ Vedran Du...
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How biased information on the internet can influence research06 March 2019The internet is a good place to rapidly collect large amounts of data. But if you don’t watch out you’ll collect very biased, one-sided data. These we...
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Leiden University Day in China26 February 2019A Leiden University Day, new agreements on exchanging PhD students and a keynote speech by Geert de Snoo at a popular symposium. In November, a Facult...
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FameLab: young scientists take the stage26 February 2019In FameLab contestants explain their research to the public in a three-minute presentation – without using PowerPoint or other presentation tools. The...
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Lieuwe Vinkhuijzen third in VERSEN Master Thesis Award22 February 2019PhD candidate Lieuwe Vinkhuijzen received the VERSEN Master Thesis Award 3rd prize for his master’s thesis on quantum computing. ‘A forward-looking th...
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AI researchers stress importance of collaborations with UK20 February 2019
In an open letter, 450 leading European researchers from 33 countries have urged European and national governments to strongly cooperate on artificial...
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Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘Diversity improves science’08 February 2019His Leiden honorary doctorate, the future of scientists, and diversity in science. Robbert Dijkgraaf tells about it in one of the classical rooms of t...
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Millions of people like and share junk news on Facebook29 January 2019Junk news sites with unknown names such as Trendnieuws and Viraal Vandaag reach millions of Dutch people thanks to their Facebook pages. Messages from...
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Interactive models: Matthijs van Leeuwen receives NWO TOP grant18 January 2019Matthijs van Leeuwen of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science develops methods to make computer models interactive. With interactive model...