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More efficient drug development with the help of computer models19 May 2020The coronavirus has the world in its grip. Finding a cure has never been more important. Unfortunately, the development of new drugs for treatment of ...
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From smarter cities to epidemic control: algorithms can help06 April 2020Where should you plant ten trees so that as many city-dwellers as possible can enjoy them? If a smart algorithm knows how people move through the city...
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AI versus corona02 April 2020It’s all hands on deck at the moment to resolve the COVID-19 crisis. Researchers from various disciplines are helping where they can, also from the fi...
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John Mydosh and the mystery of the Hidden Order30 March 2020A 35-year-old uranium crystal will not disclose its secret: what causes a dramatic phase transition at 17.5 Kelvin? Thanks to a new artificial intelli...
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Major win for CLAIRE in 50 million euro round of “seed funding”26 March 2020The European Commission has released 50 million euro to strengthen artificial intelligence in Europe. Five consortia were selected to spend this 50 mi...
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Why a drag queen is given less exposure than a white supremacist23 March 2020Technology is developing at a mind-blowing rate, also in the field of artificial intelligence. For minority groups such as the LGBTQ+ community, this ...
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Correspondence article by Eduard Fosch-Villaronga in Nature Machine Intelligence12 February 2020Robot technology is flourishing in multiple sectors of society, including retail, health care, industry and education. However, are robots representat...
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Leiden astronomers discover potential near-Earth objects12 February 2020Three Leiden astronomers have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with Earth in the future. They did their res...
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‘Universities and government should take the lead in the fight against cybercrime’07 February 2020From ransomware to Citrix traffic jams: over the past few months Dutch organisations were regularly brought to a standstill by serious cyber attacks. ...
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NWO grant for smart software that searches for new medicines04 February 2020Gerard van Westen and his group, together with pharmaceutical company Galapagos, start on developing software that invents new effective molecules. Th...
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Stephan Raaijmakers appointed Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence)13 January 2020Since November 2019 Stephan Raaijmakers is Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) at LUCL. Raaijmakers investi...
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Robots at the School of Law?10 January 2020At the end of November, eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, welcomed leading international scholars with interdiscipl...
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Building with algorithms: looking for the optimal design09 December 2019How can computers help design optimal buildings? PhD student Koen van der Blom makes algorithms that take into account all kinds of different architec...
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Children compete against each other with robots25 November 2019Robots, nervous looks and above all, lots of fun. On November 16, children up to 16 years old came together for the MakeX competition. With this robot...
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444 Interdisciplinary Activity Grant for Alex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart24 October 2019Alex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart, PhD candidates in the Digital Archaeology research group and the Data Science Research Programme, ha...