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Complexity and Network Science at the Leiden Networks Day27 September 2016The first successful Leiden Networks day took place on September 23, 2016. Six world-renowned speakers (see photo) in the field of complexity and netw...
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A PhD at 2014 September 2016Philosopher Stefan Buijsman obtained his doctorate this year at the age of 20 at the University of Stockholm, making him the youngest PhD in Sweden. H...
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Algorithms help improve building design08 September 2016Modern optimization algorithms offer solutions for architectural decisions like spatial, structural and energy efficiency. A young computer scientist ...
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Sports and data analytics: discovering the unknown known07 September 2016The combination of data science and sports is a hot topic. In a talk during the opening of the Academic Year at the Faculty of Science, Professor Joos...
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Latest hardware for computer research on medical imaging06 September 2016The LIACS Media Lab has received a research grant from the worldwide leading graphics hardware company NVIDIA. The grant exists of newly developed har...
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International students meet the Faculty of Science30 August 2016At the OWL faculty day about 150 newcomers met their fellow students and had a chance to check out the study and research facilities at the Faculty of...
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LIACS alumnus receives ACM Multimedia Rising Star Award16 August 2016Former PhD student of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) Bart Thomee has received this year’s Rising Star Award from the Multim...
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Having rights is better than equal treatment13 July 2016Mohamed Tleis was born in Lebanon and studied there up to and including university. It was not an easy path because Tleis has to cope with a number of...
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Leiden University and ICTU start research on software development09 July 2016How can we further streamline the development of software for the government? Leiden University and ICTU are to investigate this in a joint research p...
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Farhad Arbab honoured by Sharif University in Iran07 July 2016Farhad Arbab, Professor of Software composition, was honoured by Sharif University of Technology in Iran as one of its 50 most outstanding alumni. The...
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Aja Huang: 'The power of AlphaGo is in the use of neural networks'01 July 2016How did Google's computer programme AlphaGo become so powerful? On June 29, developer Aja Huang elaborated on this during a lecture in the Gorlaeus bu...
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Jurriaan Rot wins IPA Dissertation Award 201529 June 2016The Dutch research school IPA has awarded former LIACS PhD student Jurriaan Rot with the IPA Dissertation Award 2015. In his PhD thesis Rot studies co...
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Lecture: Aja Huang (Google DeepMind) on AlphaGo22 June 2016How did Google’s computer programme AlphaGo become so good at board game Go that it could defeat the world champion? On June 29, developer Aja Huang w...
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Software, star clusters and supercomputers07 June 2016Simon Portegies Zwart, professor of Computational Astrophysics, uses computers to simulate the evolution of stars. We speak with him about his field a...
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Computer science research in Leiden of major relevance to society07 June 2016An international committee has assessed computer science research at all Dutch universities in the period 2009-2014. For its computer science research...