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'Mobile phone in 2035 as powerful as our brains'15 May 2017Within 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...
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Major Expansion Leiden Quantum Computing08 May 2017The 18.8 million euro NWO Zwaartekracht grant for quantum software which Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden landed collectively, means for Leiden University ...
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Developing quantum software with a grant of 18.8 million euros04 May 2017The first larger quantum computers will soon be available. These computers need new software. Researchers at Leiden University have been awarded a Gra...
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Netherlands' smallest supercomputer05 April 2017A team of Dutch scientists has built a supercomputer the size of four pizza boxes. The Little Green Machine II has the computing power of 10,000 PCs a...
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Leiden students win international coding contest03 April 2017Two teams of Leiden Mathematics and Computer Science students have won the golden and bronze medals at an international programming contest with 605 p...
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Generating fake news automatically as a research project28 March 2017By spreading fake news via TV spots and Twitter with the use of Social Bots, Pascal professor Heike Trautmann is investigating the characteristics of ...
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New project on maintenance prediction for industries24 March 2017With the use of big data, Leiden University is aiming to develop a system that sends automatic alerts when certain Industrial parts are starting to we...
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Alumni mentors answer student’s questions23 March 2017Students get free advice of Leiden alumni about their career, applying for a job, social networking and more. The Mentor Network is an online platform...
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Students are programming with qubits14 March 2017Students of the Leiden University master Computer Science are the first students in the world that have been educated in programming with a quantum co...
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Eritrean regime trades its own nationals in a billion-dollar trafficking business09 March 2017The human trafficking of Eritrean refugees is a booming business, where money is made with smuggling people, but also using violence, hostage situatio...
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Big data on a small scale03 March 2017Mirjam van Reisen favours big data built up from local inputs in developing countries and suitable for local use. The new Professor of Computing for S...
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Studium Generale series on complex networks kicked off23 February 2017‘It has never been so easy to set up a Studium Generale series.’ With these words Tilman Grünewald thanked speaker Frank den Hollander, who kicked off...
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Sharing personal health data21 February 2017Comparing individual health data with group data allows doctors to give personalised advice and patients to learn from one another's experiences. Wess...
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Statistician Heike Trautmann is Pascal professor 201715 February 2017The German professor of Information Systems and Statistics Heike Trautmann accepted the Pascal chair this month at LIACS, the computer science institu...
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New paradigm for visual recognition03 February 2017Leiden University computer scientists Yu Liu, Yanming Guo and Michael Lew are a step closer to their ultimate goal: search engines with visual recogni...