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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...
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Searching for the wanted and unwanted effects of innovation28 April 2016How does ICT affect society? Mirjam van Reisen, professor Computing for Society at the Leiden Centre of Data Science, is intrigued by this question. W...
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Skating faster thanks to data science07 April 2016The Netherlands has a lot of world-class speed skaters and footballers. Clever statistical analyses could help them perform even better. Leiden Univer...
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Why fundamental science matters21 March 2016Why do we need fundamental science? For a lot of reasons, speakers showed at the Lustrum Symposium ‘Science Matters’. This symposium was held on 18 Ma...
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Delegation from Leiden University forges new links in Brazil19 March 2016A delegation from Leiden University is visiting Brazil from 14 to 18 March. The first day of the visit was spent with scientists in São Paolo.
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Students win StrICTly For Business18 March 2016A group of Leiden Computer Science students, with Simone Cammel, Bas Mulders, Sufeng Li, Edward Magron en Kostas Tsogkas, won the prestigious business...
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The FAIR Principles herald more open, transparent, and reusable scientific data15 March 2016Today, March 15 2016, the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship were formally published in the Nature Publishing Grou...
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Cum laude for new method making parallel programming easier14 March 2016PhD student Sung-Shik Jongmans of Leiden University and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica investigated a new programming method to simplify this. On 3 Ma...
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Wessel Kraaij appointed Professor of Applied Data Analytics02 March 2016Wessel Kraaij has been appointed Professor of Applied Data Analytics with effect from 1 March 2016. Kraaij will use new methods to analyse big data se...
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TOP grant for four of Leiden’s top scientists02 February 2016
Four scientists will receive the TOP grant for Physical Sciences from the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). They are astronomer ...
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Using sensors to measure playground dynamics18 January 2016Free playtime and physical play are of great importance to children's social development. That is the main conclusion of innovative research by develo...
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Discoverer of the Year, Best Dissertation and Education prize 201505 January 2016During the Faculty of Science New Year's reception, Daniël Rozen was named Discoverer of the year 2015. Nienke van der Marel and Koen van der Maaden b...
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Cor Veenman (NFI) researcher Forensic Big Data Science at LIACS07 December 2015On December 4th an agreement was signed between the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI)...