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What robots can teach us about humans23 October 2018Where is the dividing line between man and machines? What makes us wiser than robots? How do you know if a film on internet is real? These are the que...
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Explore the universe in VR18 October 2018Navigating through the universe with VR glasses? It is possible, with the help of the new computer application built by Marc Driessen, a Computer Scie...
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Senior Teaching Qualification for first ten lecturers15 October 2018The Senior Teaching Qualification is for experienced lecturers who have done more than lecturing alone. Ten quotes from the first ten lecturers to re...
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First Leiden Science Family Day: glitter gel, virtual reality and ice-cold clouds09 October 2018The first Leiden Science Family Day on Saturday 6 October was a great success. During the ‘Weekend of Science’ more than 700 visitors, including 350 c...
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Frank Takes one of the new Leiden University Teachers' Academy members08 October 2018Five innovative and excellent teachers have joined the Leiden University Teachers' Academy (LTA). Members of the Academy exchange experiences and shar...
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LIACS and MI welcome 70 global optimization specialists25 September 2018The 14th International Global Optimization Workshop (LeGO 2018) was hosted by Leiden University in September.
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Neurocomputing article by LIACS researchers most cited21 September 2018LIACS scientist, Dr. Michael S. Lew, along with his students now has the most cited article in the top tier neural network journal Neurocomputing, the...
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PhD on research on an industrial production process16 September 2018Computer scientist Bas van Stein conducted research at Tata Steel and BMW on how their production processes could be streamlined and optimised on the ...
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Wessel Kraaij jointly wins the Mark Everingham prize for TRECVid14 September 2018The 2018 IEEE Computer Society PAMI Mark Everingham Prize has been awarded jointly to Wessel Kraaij, Alan Smeaton, Paul Over and George Awad for the “...
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Students have a taste of consultancy during company visit13 September 2018What is it like to work in the consulting industry? Twenty-five students from the bachelor programme Informatics & Economics visited the consulting fi...
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Children as storytellers and mindreaders28 August 2018How do children learn to see the world through someone else’s perspective? Max van Duijn, assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Comp...
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Han de Winde steps down as vice-dean of Faculty of Science15 August 2018Han de Winde will step down as a member of the faculty board of the Faculty of Science from 1 September 2018. De Winde had been vice–dean at the facul...
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Augustinians reveal recipe for close friendships10 August 2018
It is a holy grail among behavioural scientists: can you predict how close a group will become? An international research team from Leiden, Oxford and...
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Teacher of the Year 2017 throws students in at the deep end with supervision06 August 2018"I did not know that I could become even more proud of you." Kristian Rietveld's father responded to the news that his son was appointed Teacher of th...
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Francien Dechesne will give a Tegenlicht-talk at Lowlands03 August 2018Om Saturday August 18, Francien Dechesne (eLaw) and Holger Hoos (LIACS) will give a VPRO Tegenlicht-talk at the Lowlands festival