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Netherlands' smallest supercomputer 05 April 2017
A team of Dutch scientists has built a supercomputer the size of four pizza boxes. The Little Green Machine II has the computing power of 10,000 PCs a...
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Leiden students win international coding contest 03 April 2017
Two teams of Leiden Mathematics and Computer Science students have won the golden and bronze medals at an international programming contest with 605 p...
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Generating fake news automatically as a research project 28 March 2017
By spreading fake news via TV spots and Twitter with the use of Social Bots, Pascal professor Heike Trautmann is investigating the characteristics of ...
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New project on maintenance prediction for industries 24 March 2017
With the use of big data, Leiden University is aiming to develop a system that sends automatic alerts when certain Industrial parts are starting to we...
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Alumni mentors answer student’s questions 23 March 2017
Students get free advice of Leiden alumni about their career, applying for a job, social networking and more. The Mentor Network is an online platform...
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Eritrean regime trades its own nationals in a billion-dollar trafficking business 09 March 2017
The human trafficking of Eritrean refugees is a booming business, where money is made with smuggling people, but also using violence, hostage situatio...
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Big data on a small scale 03 March 2017
Mirjam van Reisen favours big data built up from local inputs in developing countries and suitable for local use. The new Professor of Computing for S...
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Studium Generale series on complex networks kicked off 23 February 2017
‘It has never been so easy to set up a Studium Generale series.’ With these words Tilman Grünewald thanked speaker Frank den Hollander, who kicked off...
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Sharing personal health data 21 February 2017
Comparing individual health data with group data allows doctors to give personalised advice and patients to learn from one another's experiences. Wess...
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Statistician Heike Trautmann is Pascal professor 2017 15 February 2017
The German professor of Information Systems and Statistics Heike Trautmann accepted the Pascal chair this month at LIACS, the computer science institu...
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Designing a smart city together 31 January 2017
How can we make clever use of new technologies to improve quality of life in cities? The answer is in the NL Smart City Strategy, which Mark Rutte off...
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Student project Computer Science for Volvo Ocean Race 27 January 2017
Seven bachelor students in Computer Science at Leiden University are participating in a research project on big data and event management. Their work ...
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Exhibition Return: a photo impression 27 January 2017
The exhibition Return is available in HUBspot from 25 January until 28 January. Return is an exhibition of students from the Leiden Master's Media Tec...
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Unexpected data are good for business 26 January 2017
Data play an important role in any organization. More and more data are available about products, about production processes and about customers. At t...
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Life work award for computer scientist Grzegorz Rozenberg 19 January 2017
Leiden prof. emeritus Grzegorz Rozenberg is honoured with the first life time award in formal languages, a research area of theoretical computer scien...