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Green Light from the Advisory Board Legal Technologies program 27 November 2020
Technological developments are rapidly advancing. The Leiden Legal Technologies Program was on the agenda of the Advisory Committee at their second me...
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First Advisory Board meeting Legal Technologies programme 03 July 2020
In The Hague, the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS) in close collaboration with the Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) is developing a Legal Te...
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Measuring sulfur with satellites 15 January 2020
Seagoing vessels may emit fewer and fewer harmful substances, but how do you measure whether they comply with the standards? The Dutch Environment and...
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Jacqueline Meulman receives the 2020 Psychometric Society Career Award for Lifetime Achievement 10 January 2020
Recognition for an unprecedented career of more than forty years: Professor of Applied Statistics Jacqueline Meulman of the Mathematical Institute rec...
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Leiden University as source of inspiration for new Master's programme in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science 10 December 2019
Across Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka there is an urgent need for appropriate educational programmes that develop skills in data science and artifi...
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Lise Stork wins award for app to share biodiversity data 05 December 2019
Fifty thousand euros in expert knowledge and the title Young eScientist 2019: the National eScience Symposium on 21 November was very successful for c...
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Master's students Data Science present solutions to central government and the House of Representatives 20 November 2019
On 1 November 2019, international Master's students Data Science from Leiden University presented the elaboration of their data concepts to senior off...
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Joost Visser appointed as professor of Large Scale Software and Data Science 19 November 2019
On 15 November Joost Visser started as Professor of Large Scale Software and Data Science at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS...
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GO FAIR Implementation Network Africa launched in Leiden 26 September 2019
On 22 August, the GO-FAIR IN Africa was launched: an implementation network under the GO FAIR efforts to train, build and change the next generation o...
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AI Impact Assessment distributed in the USA 05 September 2019
A practical checklist with legal, technical and ethical points of view will from now on guide the data scientists when working in Artificial Intellige...
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Data Science certificates awarded to employees of Ministry IenW 26 June 2019
On Monday, June 24th, 24 employees of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW) received their certificates for completing Data Scien...
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A digital eye for archaeologists 25 June 2019
Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart is refining an artificial intelligence system that can detect and classify archaeological objects on digital images. Su...
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Building a bridge between data science and the social and behavioural sciences 25 June 2019
What is the best living environment for dementia patients? To answer this question, Daniela Gawehns is using data mining methods to search through dif...
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The patient forum as a goldmine 25 June 2019
Patients with certain diseases discuss their experiences and support one another on specialised internet forums. With the right data-science methods, ...
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Statistical ‘rockstar’ Brad Efron opens Leiden statistics centre 19 June 2019
He is said to be one of the greatest living statisticians. Bradley Efron gave a lecture in Marekerk and opened LUXs, the Leiden University Center for ...