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A fusion of reading and programming 28 February 2020
The connection between programming and reading seems non-existing. Yet in the new reading book ‘De Programmeerbende’ they go together very well. On 26...
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Girl power and science during the Girls in Science Day 14 February 2020
Working on superconductivity, finding an exoplanet or learning how to program with Python. More than one hundred girls visited Leiden University on Th...
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Will wind turbines take the long track speedskaters to gold? 14 February 2020
Team Jumbo-Visma is going for gold at the World Championships this weekend in Salt Lake City. For this, they have worked on a new special training met...
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Helping low-income families in energy transition 12 February 2020
In the coming decades, more than 2 million social housing units in the Netherlands will receive an upgrade in insulation and heating, in order to inc...
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Less power-consuming graphics on your phone 11 February 2020
Network-on-Chips are hardware that are used to communicate between different parts of a microchip. They have been around for over twenty years, but th...
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‘Universities and government should take the lead in the fight against cybercrime’ 07 February 2020
From ransomware to Citrix traffic jams: over the past few months Dutch organisations were regularly brought to a standstill by serious cyber attacks. ...
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Dies natalis: ‘Collaboration requires firm grounding in the individual disciplines’ 06 February 2020
‘Collaboration is increasingly important,’ Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said at the 445th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. But, as ...
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NWO grant for smart software that searches for new medicines 04 February 2020
Gerard van Westen and his group, together with pharmaceutical company Galapagos, start on developing software that invents new effective molecules. Th...
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Archaeology thanks to computer-based research 04 February 2020
A mix of data research, artificial intelligence and archaeology led to lively discussions on 31 January. On that day the unique event 'AI & Data Scien...
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Sign language processing needs interdisciplinary approach 27 January 2020
Computer scientist Tessa Verhoef received a Best Paper Award during the ‘ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility’. The paper emphasise...
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Digital Transformation: how do children perceive computer science? 20 January 2020
Contribute to shaping the content and methods of future computer science education. That is what researchers hope to achieve with the Digital Transfor...
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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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Faculty of Science starts new year with awards for talents 07 January 2020
Mathematician Robbin Bastiaansen, physicist Irene Battisti, pharmacist Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd and physics and astronomy student Maite Boden are the ...
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Joost Batenburg new professor for SAILS 07 January 2020
SAILS started the new year with a new professor. Joost Batenburg will join the SAILS team with his expertise in Imaging and Visualisation. This makes ...
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Max van Duijn nominated for Discoverer of the Year 2019 07 January 2020
Every person on earth can read another person’s mind. Not in the way psychics or witches do, but by putting themselves in the shoes of others and cons...