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What happens on the schoolyard? Sensors on clothing reveal painful patterns 21 July 2023The design of school playgrounds partially influences whether children play together. This is particularly relevant for more vulnerable students, such...
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Hollywood strike: Is AI really a threat to actors? 19 July 2023Better pay and new agreements with streaming platforms: the actors’ strike that brought Hollywood to a standstill a few days ago is mainly about money...
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Using data science to promote a healthy life style 11 July 2023Movement behaviours, such as physical activity, sleep, and the amount of time we sit each day, impact our health. Recently, more researchers are looki...
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These are the nominees for the Leiden Teaching Prize 2023 04 July 2023Paul Gobée (LUMC), Kirsty Rolfe (Humanities) and Frank Takes (Science) have been nominated for the Leiden Teaching Prize 2023.
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Marcello Bonsangue new Scientific Director of the LIACS institute 29 June 2023Marcello Bonsangue will be the new Scientific Director of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from January 2024. Bonsangue has b...
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Applications that never crash again 31 May 2023Doing your taxes, Netflixing or driving a car: more and more daily activities are supported by computer applications. It is challenging and expensive ...
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Towards no more glass in the jam with better X-ray scanners 30 May 2023X-ray and CT scanners are widely used devices in research, diagnostics and the industrial sector. And yet they are not nearly as fast and accurate as ...
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Five tips for Museum Night Leiden 30 May 2023Saturday 3 June will see the 15th edition of Museum Night Leiden. Students and researchers from Leiden University are once again on the programme this...
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Leiden University hosts conference uniting 80 world-class scientists 11 April 2023A team of researchers from Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) recently hosted a big international conference (EMO 2023). At the c...
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How does the ethics committee work? Suzan Verberne gives an insight 06 April 2023How ethical is research involving humans and robots? And can research on artificial intelligence cause problems when it ends up in the wrong hands? In...
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In memoriam professor Harry Wijshoff 30 March 2023On March 28, 2023, our esteemed colleague Prof. Harry Wijshoff passed away. He died after a struggle of several months against a serious illness.
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Designing the quantum future on a regular computer 22 March 2023Computer scientist Tim Coopmans uses pen, paper and regular computers to simulate the best possible quantum computer. He tells about his research and ...
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Joining hands to advance Dutch microscopy 20 February 2023Advanced microscopy to understand life and fight disease: that’s the goal of the new NL-BioImaging network that will develop and integrate state-of-th...
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‘Girls can be hackers too’ 09 February 2023How safe are the dozens of apps on our phone? And how do we make sure organisations don’t get hacked? Cybersecurity expert Olga Gadyatskaya works on a...
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Students take on the role of world leaders 27 January 2023An event where students came together to discuss the impact of AI on healthcare. Jurren de Groot and Yuxuan Zhu, master's students in Artificial Intel...