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International students meet the Faculty of Science 30 August 2016At the OWL faculty day about 150 newcomers met their fellow students and had a chance to check out the study and research facilities at the Faculty of...
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LIACS alumnus receives ACM Multimedia Rising Star Award 16 August 2016Former PhD student of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) Bart Thomee has received this year’s Rising Star Award from the Multim...
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Having rights is better than equal treatment 13 July 2016Mohamed Tleis was born in Lebanon and studied there up to and including university. It was not an easy path because Tleis has to cope with a number of...
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Leiden University and ICTU start research on software development 09 July 2016How can we further streamline the development of software for the government? Leiden University and ICTU are to investigate this in a joint research p...
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Farhad Arbab honoured by Sharif University in Iran 07 July 2016Farhad Arbab, Professor of Software composition, was honoured by Sharif University of Technology in Iran as one of its 50 most outstanding alumni. The...
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Aja Huang: 'The power of AlphaGo is in the use of neural networks' 01 July 2016How did Google's computer programme AlphaGo become so powerful? On June 29, developer Aja Huang elaborated on this during a lecture in the Gorlaeus bu...
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Jurriaan Rot wins IPA Dissertation Award 2015 29 June 2016The Dutch research school IPA has awarded former LIACS PhD student Jurriaan Rot with the IPA Dissertation Award 2015. In his PhD thesis Rot studies co...
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Lecture: Aja Huang (Google DeepMind) on AlphaGo 22 June 2016How did Google’s computer programme AlphaGo become so good at board game Go that it could defeat the world champion? On June 29, developer Aja Huang w...
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Software, star clusters and supercomputers 07 June 2016Simon Portegies Zwart, professor of Computational Astrophysics, uses computers to simulate the evolution of stars. We speak with him about his field a...
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Computer science research in Leiden of major relevance to society 07 June 2016An international committee has assessed computer science research at all Dutch universities in the period 2009-2014. For its computer science research...
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Searching for the wanted and unwanted effects of innovation 28 April 2016How does ICT affect society? Mirjam van Reisen, professor Computing for Society at the Leiden Centre of Data Science, is intrigued by this question. W...
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Skating faster thanks to data science 07 April 2016The Netherlands has a lot of world-class speed skaters and footballers. Clever statistical analyses could help them perform even better. Leiden Univer...
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Why fundamental science matters 21 March 2016Why do we need fundamental science? For a lot of reasons, speakers showed at the Lustrum Symposium ‘Science Matters’. This symposium was held on 18 Ma...
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Delegation from Leiden University forges new links in Brazil 19 March 2016A delegation from Leiden University is visiting Brazil from 14 to 18 March. The first day of the visit was spent with scientists in São Paolo.
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Students win StrICTly For Business 18 March 2016A group of Leiden Computer Science students, with Simone Cammel, Bas Mulders, Sufeng Li, Edward Magron en Kostas Tsogkas, won the prestigious business...