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3 October University: ‘Artificial intelligence is like young people and sex’04 October 2022
‘Everyone’s talking about it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, but the reality is disappointing,’ says biochemist Gerard van Westen in his 3...
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Reijer Passchier to teach course in the nationwide AI course Ethics28 September 2022
This course in ethics is a continuation of the popular Nationale AI-Cursus from 2018. In which over 300,000 people have since participated.
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BrAInpower exhibition: tremendous and troubling uses of AI in our daily lives12 September 2022
Care robots, medical treatments, deepfakes and self-driving cars all with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). The BrAInpower exhibition at Rijksm...
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eLaw publishes article in Computer Law & Security Review12 September 2022
In healthcare, gender and sex considerations are crucial because they affect individuals' health and disease differences. Yet, most algorithms deploye...
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eLaw publishes a new book on Law and AI29 August 2022
From deepfakes and disinformation to killer robots, surgical robots and AI lawmaking: AI (Artificial Intelligence) is changing our world. That raises ...
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Advanced Masters students present their research in China15 August 2022
Two of eLaw’s Advanced Masters students, Dimitra Laskari and Vasilis Xynoglas, presented their research on the Metaverse and Personal Digital Twins at...
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Matt Young wins Camilla Stivers Award: 'It means a lot more to me than I expected'28 June 2022
Matt Young, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration, has won the 2022 Camilla Stivers Award last week. Young and his co-authors ...
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Turning senses into media: can we teach artificial intelligence to perceive?22 June 2022
Humans perceive the world through different senses: we see, feel, hear, taste and smell. The different senses with which we perceive are multiple chan...
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Horizon Europe funding for eLaw on project BIAS to mitigate diversity biases in the Labor Market16 June 2022
Dr Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Assistant Professor at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, and 8 partners have been awarded the project 'BIAS:...
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How Oncode-PACT is bringing new cancer medicines closer with 325 million in Growth Fund money18 May 2022
How can you ensure that more experimental drugs reach the finish line? At the moment, only one in twenty cancer drugs that are tested on humans makes ...
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Hybrid Intelligence: Making the unknown visible for Humans and AI16 May 2022
A consortium made up of Leiden University (Institute of Public Administration/Digitalisation & Public Policy, Bram Klievink, Sarah Giest, Bart Scherme...
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Minors in AI, Data & Digitialisation in Delft, Leiden and Rotterdam11 May 2022
The universities of Delft, Leiden and Rotterdam are working together to show their students what artificial intelligence (AI) means for their own fiel...
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Humanities and AI: A fruitful combination06 May 2022
What do a linguist, an artist, a Professor of Conservation and Restoration, and a lecturer at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science have i...
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National Growth Fund invests many millions in faster and more sustainable (cancer) drug development14 April 2022
On 14 April, the National Growth Fund awarded million euros in grants to two consortia in which Leiden's science faculty is involved. Pharma-NL will r...
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First professionals obtained their certificates Legal Technologies: ‘It was intensive, fun, and enlightening’12 April 2022
Last week, the first seven professionals successfully completed the new Leiden Legal Technologies Programme (LLTP). They received their certificates d...