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Designing a smart city together31 January 2017How can we make clever use of new technologies to improve quality of life in cities? The answer is in the NL Smart City Strategy, which Mark Rutte off...
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Student project Computer Science for Volvo Ocean Race27 January 2017Seven bachelor students in Computer Science at Leiden University are participating in a research project on big data and event management. Their work ...
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Exhibition Return: a photo impression27 January 2017The exhibition Return is available in HUBspot from 25 January until 28 January. Return is an exhibition of students from the Leiden Master's Media Tec...
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Unexpected data are good for business26 January 2017Data play an important role in any organization. More and more data are available about products, about production processes and about customers. At t...
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Life work award for computer scientist Grzegorz Rozenberg19 January 2017Leiden prof. emeritus Grzegorz Rozenberg is honoured with the first life time award in formal languages, a research area of theoretical computer scien...
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SewerSense: automatic measuring within the sewer system16 January 2017Scientists of Leiden University and Technical University Delft are going to predict how and where defects in sewer systems arise. They are working wit...
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Sifting through data the smart way11 January 2017We produce more data than ever before, and researchers gather more and more information. That data contains a wealth of insights and new possibilities...
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Computer scientist Frank Takes Teacher of the Year11 January 2017Students of the Science Faculty of Leiden University have chosen Frank Takes, researcher and teacher at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Scie...
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Alexander van Oudenhoven Discoverer of the year 201610 January 2017Environmental scientist Alexander van Oudenhoven has been chosen as Discoverer of the year of the Faculty of Science. Vice Rector Magnificus Hester Bi...
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The Netherlands-Brazil: 1-121 December 2016The Sport Data Center wants to unravel the secrets of Dutch and Brazilian football, together with a diverse group of partners. Furthermore, the consor...
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'Leiden' awarded for computational intelligence19 December 2016The Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science congratulates alumnus Pepijn van Heiningen and the with the Technische Hochschule Köln shared PhD-st...
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Faculty of Science reinforces collaboration in China16 December 2016The Faculty of Science has reinforced the collaboration in China during a group trip late November. Representatives from four institutes visited ten C...
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Machine learning predicts preferences13 December 2016Cláudio de Sá predicted the preferences of people using rankings. He adjusted ‘classical’ machine learning approaches, making them suitable for predic...
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Real time image recognition for digital learning22 November 2016Leiden University and VU Amsterdam are developing a joint research project for a digital platform on which you can compose and share storylines with t...
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Broad universities favourable for innovation14 November 2016Broad universities that focus strongly on fundamental research have the best chance of contributing to economic innovations, for example in the life a...