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College or university? Computer science students in the right place 27 February 2024The right student in the right place. That is what LIACS program director Frank Takes and education coordinator Joyce Glerum are aiming to do with the...
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Want to know more about quantum? These games make it fun 23 February 2024Tic tac toe, but with quantum effects. That makes learning the principles of quantum technology a piece of cake. This is the aim of a new start-up fou...
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Marcello is the new scientific director of LIACS: 'It's time to give something back to the institute' 23 January 2024He came to the Netherlands for three months and never left. Marcello Bonsangue is the new scientific director of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Comp...
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Developing methods on remote sensing detection of archaeological features in Colombia with LDE grant 18 January 2024A Leiden-Delft-Erasmus research team has been awarded a LDE Global Support Grant to develop reusable algorithms in the remote detection of non-orthogo...
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy 17 January 2024Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, th...
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Leiden quantum technology research very successful in funding call 10 January 2024No less than six Leiden projects received a grant for quantum research from the national growth programme Quantum Delta NL and the NWO. After all, in ...
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Supercomputer ALICE is even more powerful, and that is good news for many disciplines 03 January 2024Supercomputer ALICE has been expanded, making it even more powerful and faster. This means researchers and students can work with heavier models. From...
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‘Listen carefully when students ask a question, to hear the question behind the question’ 07 December 2023‘Rudy van Vliet is always willing to go that extra mile to help us,’ is what students say about him. The lecturer in the Computer Science bachelor’s p...
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European grant to advance self-learning capabilities of quantum computers 24 November 2023A major grant for research into machine learning algorithms for quantum computers. With this ERC Consolidator grant, Vedran Dunjko and his colleagues ...
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Two ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers 23 November 2023Research on quantum computers and Islamic charities: two Leiden researchers have received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.
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Students build software for real customers 06 November 2023Students gain practical experience while clients receive a solution to their software needs: the student software company LUDev hits two birds with on...
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New professor Vedran Dunjko finds real-world problems that a quantum computer can solve 02 November 2023When he started high school, his brother gave him an advanced book on quantum computing. That's when he knew what he wanted to pursue. Since 1 October...
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Thomas Bäck and Hao Wang new Editors in chief of the Evolutionary Computation Journal 02 November 2023LIACS scholars Thomas Bäck and Hao Wang will be the new Editors-in-Chief of the Evolutionary Computation Journal from November 1. Published by MIT Pre...
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Algorithms descend into our sewers to improve inspections 01 November 2023They never cross our minds until, that is, they become damaged and then they’re a huge problem: our sewers. Their maintenance could be much faster and...
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AI Lab launched for effective and responsible supervision 30 October 2023How can you increase the effectiveness of inspectors using responsible artificial intelligence (AI)? This is the question the Innovation Center for Ar...