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Hollywood strike: Is AI really a threat to actors? 19 July 2023
Better pay and new agreements with streaming platforms: the actors’ strike that brought Hollywood to a standstill a few days ago is mainly about money...
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Max van Duijn and Vasiliki Kosta join The Young Academy 13 December 2022
Leiden researchers Max van Duijn (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science) and Vasilika Kosta (Leiden Law School, Europa Institute) will join Th...
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BrAInpower exhibition: tremendous and troubling uses of AI in our daily lives 12 September 2022
Care robots, medical treatments, deepfakes and self-driving cars all with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). The BrAInpower exhibition at Rijksm...
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How mathematician Hendrik Lenstra completed an unfinished artwork by Escher 30 April 2020
Twenty years onwards, in a review of an Escher exhibition in Italy, Nature Physics writes about it again: Leiden mathematicians helping Escher out. A ...
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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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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...
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Children compete against each other with robots 25 November 2019
Robots, nervous looks and above all, lots of fun. On November 16, children up to 16 years old came together for the MakeX competition. With this robot...
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CRITTERS Exposition: a photo impression 07 November 2019
From November 4 to 10, the exposition CRITTERS will be exhibited in Naturalis Biodiversity Center during Beyond Human Festival. In CRITTERS artists an...
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LIACS part of AI-driven VR-film 08 October 2019
During this year's Dutch Film Festival (NFF), which took place from 27 September to 5 October in Utrecht, a new Artificial Intelligence-driven Virtual...
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These are the seven Veni winners of the Faculty of Science 16 July 2019
The Faculty of Science has received no less than seven Veni grants this year. Camila Correa, Max van Duijn, Stéphanie van der Pas, Sergii Pud, Mónica ...
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Media Technology lecturers in NVON's magazine Terugkoppeling 22 February 2018
Maarten Lamers and Peter van der Putten were guest editors of magazine Terugkoppeling, the publication of the NVON (Dutch Association for Education in...