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Dutch collaboration wins HPC Innovation Excellence Award for the first time21 December 2020A Dutch collaboration, including the SURF Open Innovation Lab and Leiden Observatory, has won Hyperion Research's HPC Innovation Excellence Award. Thi...
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Assessing the safety of chemicals and medicines without laboratory animals02 December 2020One of the holy grails of drug research is to be able to assess the safety of chemicals and pharmaceuticals without using laboratory animals. Research...
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BNAIC/Benelearn conference big success23 November 2020Reinforcement learning, agents and classification: these are just some of the topics researchers on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning discu...
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Anne Meuwese appointed Professor of Public Law & Governance of AI27 October 2020Anne Meuwese is appointed Professor of Public Law & Governance of AI at Leiden University as of 1 November 2020. This position is part of the Universi...
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New AI hub in Zuid-Holland05 October 2020The region of Zuid-Holland is launching ‘AI Hub Zuid-Holland’. This network organisation will be a single point of contact for business and knowledge ...
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NWO subsidy for archaeological search engine: ‘There is no physical digging involved!’28 September 2020When you want to analyse big quantities of archaeological data, you run into the issue that searching through excavation reports is extremely time-con...
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AI research in Zuid-Holland: three examples24 September 2020How designers are even more creative with a robot in their team, how Twitter could predict the stock market, and how to catch a single bacterium in th...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely setting07 September 2020From a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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European University Institute Fellowship on AI for Madalina Busuioc01 September 2020Madalina Busuioc, Associate Professor at the Institute of Public Administration, has been awarded the prestigious Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship by...
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More powerful data centre will accelerate research15 July 2020Language evolution, targeted drugs or archaeological interpretation. Researchers are making increasing use of supercomputers that can rapidly process ...
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Leiden-Delft-Erasmus collaboration brings self-learning healthcare system a step closer10 July 2020More effective diagnosis and prognosis than ever, with less intrusive medical screening? Scientists from Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam are well on the w...
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Artificial intelligence flourishing in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam22 June 2020Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam are important players in the world of self-learning machines that c...
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Three Leiden Science projects receive computing time on national supercomputers16 June 2020A night sky of more than 40 petabytes in size, simulating young star clusters and understanding how the body inhibits viruses: three Leiden projects h...
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Brand-new professor Gerard van Westen wants to cross boundaries16 June 2020
Brand-new professor Gerard van Westen works at the intersection of artificial intelligence and drug development. For the new chair in Artificial Intel...
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Grant for Elastix medical imaging software03 June 2020LUMC researcher Marius Staring will receive a $ 200,000 grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to improve the accessibility, interoperability and e...