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Measuring skate provides insight into ice-skating technique28 January 2022In the future top Dutch speed skaters may skate even faster thanks to a skate full of electronics. This ‘measuring skate’ gives top skaters and coache...
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Legal expert Reijer Passchier on the law, Big Tech and Big Brother18 January 2022Is the child benefits scandal an omen for the future and will people’s lives soon be fully dominated by algorithms? Assistant Professor of Constitutio...
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Reijer Passchier on imbalance within Trias Politica and Big Tech11 January 2022What is the impact of digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the functioning of our constitution? Reijer Passchier, Assistant Professor of...
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SAILS researcher Anne Meuwese awarded PDI-SSH grant26 November 2021The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers a...
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Leiden researchers work on exhibition about growth addiction27 October 2021Museum De Lakenhal issued an open call for creative solutions to the problem of growth addiction. From over 500 submissions, they selected 15 artworks...
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Visit by Members of Parliament highlights interdisciplinary research and collaboration29 June 2021High-quality education, research involving multiple faculties, collaboration between universities and central government funding to make all this poss...
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‘Teaching a robot to fry an egg isn’t as easy as you’d think’15 June 2021‘AI can’t do half as much as people think,’ says computer scientist and psychologist Roy de Kleijn. He tries to teach robots seemingly easy things, an...
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Melanie Fink and Barbora Budinská on EU Law Live03 June 2021On 10 May 2021, Melanie Fink and Barbora Budinská published their views on recent developments in the areas of EU regulation of Artificial Intelligenc...
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AI in port and maritime research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam31 May 2021From a ship that has been designed to tell you what maintenance it needs and when, to an intelligent journey planner for global goods transport. The t...
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Tom Kouwenhoven wants to develop a bridge between AI and humans26 May 2021It is a familiar phenomenon: you ask the assistant on your phone to call your mother, but it calls a friend instead. Tom Kouwenhoven, PhD student in t...
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The hunt for the best computer language10 May 2021Our language is adapted to the context in which we humans communicate. But computers ‘think’ differently. What is the optimal form of a language for h...
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Whispering out loud03 May 2021Whispp, a Leiden-based speech technology start-up, is developing an app to help people who stutter express themselves more freely. Among those working...
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: 'Focus on what's really important'23 April 2021Developing a digital guest lecture for high school students. Jan Sleutels was immediately enthusiastic when he got asked to do this. The end result? T...
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TEMPORAL project helps improving hearing of the deaf22 April 2021Electrical inner ear prostheses like Cochlear Implants (CIs) help deaf and severely hearing-impaired persons to regain many of their communication abi...
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Blog Anne Meuwese on European AI regulation22 April 2021Yesterday, the European Commission presented its long-anticipated proposal for an AI regulation. After the Commission had outlined the European legisl...