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Sixth Honorary Doctorate for Grzegorz Rozenberg10 November 2015On 27 November 2015 Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Rozenberg receives his sixth Honorary Doctorate.
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Leiden University partner in research on handwriting and image recognition20 October 2015The Leiden Centre of Data Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science are part of a consortium that will carry out research on makin...
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Fifth Honory Doctorate for Grzegorz Rozenberg25 July 2015On Monday June 15 Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Rozenberg received his fifth Honorary Doctorate.
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Bas Haring among the eleven most influential Leiden scientists04 May 2015According to University newspaper Mare professor Bas Haring, head of the Media Technology Masters programme, is among the eleven most influential Leid...
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Data science can reduce likelihood of virus outbreaks07 April 2015Data science is of vital importance in preventing future outbreaks of viruses, Professor of Data Science Aske Plaat argues. Inaugural lecture entitled...
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Harmen Jousma wins Teaching Prize09 February 2015‘Always focus on your students, and make sure that what you teach them will be relevant to them as alumni.’ In his speech of thanks, Harmen Jousma, le...
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Thomas Bäck holds Cleveringa lecture in Calgary, Canada16 January 2015On 26 November 2014 Prof. Dr. Thomas Bäck gives the Cleveringa lecture at the University of Calgary in Canada entitled: Innovation: Can we use princip...
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Pascal Professor 201510 December 2014In 2015 the Pascalchair of the Faculty of Science, Universiteit Leiden and in particular of Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, is held by ...
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Fewer errors in software features by using delta modelling25 November 2014When new features are being written into software code, errors can easily be made. This causes bugs, which leads to software appearing later and being...
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Thomas Bäck wint IEEE Award07 November 2014Thomas Bäck wins the 2015 IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award for his contributions in synthesizing evolutionary computation.
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Fourth Honory Doctorate for Grzegorz Rozenberg30 October 2014
Friday May 23 Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Rozenberg receives his fourth Honorary Doctorate.
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LIACS receives NWO grant in Challenging Big Data program30 October 2014The Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) received a grant award from NWO for a joint proposal with Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CW...
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Connecting Bioscience & Informatics06 September 2014On June 26, 2014, LIACS organizes an event where you can learn more about LIACS research on Bioscientific data processing and modelling, as well as Bi...
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NWO grant for super fast analysis of disease progression01 February 2014New funding allows IBL-researcher Herman Spaink to purchase a measurement device for more studies on human diseases such as cancer and tuberculosis us...
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Leiden University wins Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest 201329 October 2013
The Leiden team "Geen Syntax" (no syntax), consisting of Bas Nieuwenhuizen, Mathijs van Nes and Raymond van Bommel, has won the Benelux Algorithm Prog...