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Pelt brings theory and practice together in the field of Deep LearningBringing the theoretical world of mathematics and computer science to more applied research areas. That is what Daniël Pelt, assistant professor at th...
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Holger Hoos appointed ACM FellowOn 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 seeLearning 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...
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Toward a reliable cloudThe cloud is of increasing importance in our daily lives. It is thus crucial that they work properly and are reliable. Alex Uta, assistant professor a...
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A hundred thousand programmes with Hedy!How can I teach children programming in a playful way? That's the question Felienne Hermans asked herself when she gave programming lessons to childre...
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Marco Spruit wants to develop a language model to improve healthcareBy making smart use of available data, the health and care of people can be substantially improved. Marco Spruit wants to use language and machine lea...
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From filter bubbles to sex care robots: come to the online talk show ‘The Future of AI is Human’How does it feel to be spied on by robots? Did you know that they too discriminate? Our entanglement with technology makes life easier, but there’s a ...
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Analysing diseases through interactive visual interfacesAlzheimer’s disease and cancer are two examples of diseases that are related to malfunctioning cellular patterns. The examination of cell tissue, howe...
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Consortium puts Quantum Computer in the cloudThe quantum computer is on its way, but is society ready for it? Quantum computers have a reputation of being difficult to grasp because of their comp...
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BNAIC/Benelearn conference big successReinforcement learning, agents and classification: these are just some of the topics researchers on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning discu...
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New project uses artificial intelligence in drug developmentIn health care, artificial intelligence is quite normal: it is used, for example, as an aid in making diagnoses. However, artificial intelligence is n...
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'Children think programmers are more social than writers’What do children think about computer science and the profession 'programmer'? Shirley de Wit and her colleagues from the Programming Education Resear...
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Veni grants for eleven Leiden researchersEleven Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant will enable them to develop their research ide...
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Journalists, online media professionals and researchers come together for second edition of MISDOOMWith over 200 participants, the first day of the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) was a grea...
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Three Leiden scientists receive NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative researchThe origins of Surinamese rice, a digital twin of the Earth and a large big-data project in the Chilean sky: three Leiden scientists receive an ENW-KL...