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Wessel Kraaij director of Data Science Research Programme 27 February 2018
Prof.dr.ir. Wessel Kraaij is appointed director of the Data Science Research Programme (DSRP) at Leiden University, starting March 1st. He is the succ...
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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...
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Inauguration computer cluster GRACE at LIACS 13 February 2018
By making two final network connections and entering a command, Martijn Ridderbos (Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board) , Geert de Snoo (Dean of th...
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Symposium with first cohort of Data Science PhD students 31 January 2018
On Tuesday, January 30th, the first symposium of the Data Science Research Programme took place at the Sylvius Building.
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Magnifying the minute 11 January 2018
Making all those things we normally cannot see visible is the challenge that fascinates Fons Verbeek, Leiden's new Professor of Computational Bio-Imag...
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Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is Discoverer of the Year 2017 09 January 2018
With a large majority of votes, drug researcher Alireza Mashaghi Tabari was chosen Discoverer of the Year 2017 of the Faculty of Science. This was ann...
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Grzegorz Rozenberg appointed Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion 14 December 2017
Prof.dr. Rozenberg, emeritus professor in Theoretical Computer Science at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), received a royal ...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year 14 December 2017
Who will be our Discoverer of the year 2017? Which one of these brilliant researchers deserves this prize for their efforts according to you? As of no...
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Science delegation enhances influence in China 14 December 2017
A large delegation composed of 11 delegates from institutes from the Faculty of Science has made an extensive visit to China and enhanced Leiden’s inf...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year 2017 14 December 2017
Suzan Verberne is nominated by the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) to be granted the C.J. Kok Public Award, also known as the aw...
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Anna Latour wins second prize at KNVI Thesis Prize for Informatics 27 November 2017
The KNVI (Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging van Informatieprofessionals) awarded Thesis Prizes for Informatics and Information Science
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Joost Kok appointed to be new Dean of University of Twente’s EEMCS Faculty 15 November 2017
Joost Kok, Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Science, has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and ...
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Wessel Kraaij recognized as Distinguished Member of the ACM for outstanding contributions to computing 09 November 2017
On November 8, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Wessel Kraaij as one of the 2017 Distinguished Members. ACM Distinguished Members h...
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With artificial intelligence to new physics 02 November 2017
The particle accelerator of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, produces large amounts of complex data with high accuracy, as a resu...
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Artificial intelligence to extend, not replace human capabilities 26 October 2017
Computers are increasingly able to accomplish tasks that are difficult for human experts, such as diagnosing diseases or detecting credit card fraud. ...