The particle accelerator of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, produces large amounts of complex data with high accuracy, as a resu...

Computers are increasingly able to accomplish tasks that are difficult for human experts, such as diagnosing diseases or detecting credit card fraud. ...

Frank Takes has won the Young eScientist Award 2017 for his research about tax havens.

Two professors from China joining the research and education in Leiden, two Leiden professors going to China to share their knowledge and experiences ...

In the 1960s at MIT, cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky told a couple of graduate students to program a computer to perform the simple task of recognis...

First publication with authors from a Dutch university on the most cited ACM list

Tremendous amounts of data are generated in scientific research each day. Most of this data has more potential than we are using now, says Katy Wolste...

The first Eugene Garfield Award for Innovation In Citation Analysis has been granted to Jian Wang, Assistant Professor in the Science Based Business P...

The new MASCARA-facilty in Chile has achieved first light. This new facility will seek out transiting exoplanets as they pass in front of their bright...

The European Football Championship for Women, in the Netherlands this summer, is the background for a large and innovative data research project. The ...

At the annual World Computer Chess Championship, chess computers from all over the world compete with each other. This year, Leiden University hosted ...

The Dutch research school IPA has awarded former PhD student Sung-Shik Jongmans with the IPA Dissertation Award 2016. In March of that year, Jongmans ...

Within 20 years, intelligent machines will play a major role in society. ‘Selfdriving cars will be 90% safer than human-driven cars and will change tr...

The 18.8 million euro NWO Zwaartekracht grant for quantum software which Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden landed collectively, means for Leiden University ...

The first larger quantum computers will soon be available. These computers need new software. Researchers at Leiden University have been awarded a Gra...