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Matt Young wins Camilla Stivers Award: 'It means a lot more to me than I expected'28 June 2022Matt 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 2022Humans 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 2022Dr 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 2022How 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 2022A 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 2022The 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 2022What 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 2022On 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 2022Last week, the first seven professionals successfully completed the new Leiden Legal Technologies Programme (LLTP). They received their certificates d...
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Algorithms combat environmental pollution from ships04 April 2022Did you know that algorithms can help with the prevention of air pollution and ships sinking in the sea? A team of Leiden University researchers have ...
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Customer-friendly Dutch chatbots28 March 2022Ever heard of conversational artificial intelligence (AI)? Anyone who has ever interacted with Siri or Alexa is familiar with this technology. We use ...
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How to make AI systems learn better22 March 2022Artificial intelligence systems are smart. They can recognize patterns better than humans, for example. Yet humans are still very much needed. How can...
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Algorithms can also learn without examples28 February 2022In donut-shaped buildings, particle accelerators take super-detailed X-ray images. Yet those images are not good enough to learn how to drive on hydro...
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Is a cancer pill a matter of time?21 February 2022A cancer pill, preferably without severe side effects, is something we’d all welcome. Is it a matter of time before such a pill is a reality? We put t...
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Two AI Grants for Leiden University07 February 2022
NWO (the Dutch Research Council) has granted more than 10 million euros for five human-centered AI research projects (2.1M€ each). Leiden University p...