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NWO subsidies for cybersecurity projects 30 April 2021
Three cybersecurity consortia that Leiden University is part of have been awarded subsidies of over a million euros by NWO. Leiden is the coordinator ...
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Els de Busser receives NWO-funding for project in solving cyber security issues 27 April 2021
Dr. Els de Busser, assistant professor and researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, as principal investigator of a consortia, has b...
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: 'Focus on what's really important' 23 April 2021
Developing a digital guest lecture for high school students. Jan Sleutels was immediately enthusiastic when he got asked to do this. The end result? T...
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TEMPORAL project helps improving hearing of the deaf 22 April 2021
Electrical inner ear prostheses like Cochlear Implants (CIs) help deaf and severely hearing-impaired persons to regain many of their communication abi...
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615 million euros for quantum research 09 April 2021
Quantum Delta NL, a research programme in which Leiden University participates, has been awarded 615 million euros from the National Growth Fund to he...
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Cyber Security Governance Essentials 15 March 2021
The new minor 'Cyber Security Governance Essentials' will start in September 2021. Third year bachelor students of The Leiden Institute of Advanced Co...
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Artificial Intelligence learns faster with quantum technology 09 March 2021
An international collaboration, including Leiden physicist and computer scientist Vedran Dunjko, showed that quantum technology can speed-up the learn...
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Joost Visser gives keynote at SEN symposium 19 February 2021
More and more, software incorporates components of Machine Learning. Joost Visser, professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIA...
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Semi-supervised learning paper selected as 2020 NatureSpringer Research Highlight 18 February 2021
An article that Holger Hoos, Professor of Machine Learning at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), wrote with his former Master ...
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Team with staff from Leiden wins important open science prize 11 February 2021
A team including staff from Leiden University won the Open Initiative Trophy on 11 February, a prize for the best open science initiative in the Nethe...
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Twitter use helps predict flooding 29 January 2021
Heavy rainfall can cause streets to flood and basements and tunnels to overflow. Jan van Rijn investigated, together with Christiaan Lamers (formerly ...
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Felienne Hermans receives Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2021 21 January 2021
The Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2021 goes to Felienne Hermans, associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. She receives...
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Daan Pelt brings theory and practice together in the field of Deep Learning 19 January 2021
Bringing the theoretical world of mathematics and computer science to more applied research areas. That is what Daan Pelt, assistant professor at the ...
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Holger Hoos appointed ACM Fellow 18 January 2021
On 13 January 2020, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named 95 members ACM Fellows who have demonstrated excellence across many discip...
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Michael Lew explores how computers can see 11 January 2021
Learning how computers can process and describe images just like human beings do. It is one of the key elements of the research of Michael Lew, who se...