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Holger Hoos appointed ACM Fellow 18 January 2021
On 13 January 2020, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named 95 members ACM Fellows who have demonstrated excellence across many discip...
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Michael Lew explores how computers can see 11 January 2021
Learning how computers can process and describe images just like human beings do. It is one of the key elements of the research of Michael Lew, who se...
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New project uses artificial intelligence in drug development 04 January 2021
In health care, artificial intelligence is quite normal: it is used, for example, as an aid in making diagnoses. However, artificial intelligence is n...
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Toward a reliable cloud 17 December 2020
The cloud is of increasing importance in our daily lives. It is thus crucial that they work properly and are reliable. Alex Uta, assistant professor a...
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A hundred thousand programmes with Hedy! 14 December 2020
How can I teach children programming in a playful way? That's the question Felienne Hermans asked herself when she gave programming lessons to childre...
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Marco Spruit wants to develop a language model to improve healthcare 10 December 2020
By making smart use of available data, the health and care of people can be substantially improved. Marco Spruit wants to use language and machine lea...
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Analysing diseases through interactive visual interfaces 07 December 2020
Alzheimer’s disease and cancer are two examples of diseases that are related to malfunctioning cellular patterns. The examination of cell tissue, howe...
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Consortium puts Quantum Computer in the cloud 25 November 2020
The quantum computer is on its way, but is society ready for it? Quantum computers have a reputation of being difficult to grasp because of their comp...
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BNAIC/Benelearn conference big success 23 November 2020
Reinforcement learning, agents and classification: these are just some of the topics researchers on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning discu...
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'Children think programmers are more social than writers’ 11 November 2020
What do children think about computer science and the profession 'programmer'? Shirley de Wit and her colleagues from the Programming Education Resear...
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Veni grants for eleven Leiden researchers 05 November 2020
Eleven Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant will enable them to develop their research ide...
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Journalists, online media professionals and researchers come together for second edition of MISDOOM 26 October 2020
With over 200 participants, the first day of the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) was a grea...
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Three Leiden scientists receive NWO ENW-KLEIN grant for innovative research 23 October 2020
The origins of Surinamese rice, a digital twin of the Earth and a large big-data project in the Chilean sky: three Leiden scientists receive an ENW-KL...
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Sport Data Center appointed as Certified Partner of Sportinnovator 12 October 2020
The Sport Data Center, a consortium of universities of which Leiden University is leader, is recognised as a Certified Partner of Sportinnovator. This...
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LIACS part of European consortium to boost industrial quantum computing 05 October 2020
The Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) is a proud member of the NExt ApplicationS of Quantum Computing (NEASQC) consortium, which r...