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Bart Barendregt receives Vici grant for research on Artificial Intelligence in Muslim Southeast Asia14 April 2021Very little is known about the relationship between religion and the digital future. Bart Barendregt, Professor by special appointment Anthropology of...
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Government pledges millions for economic growth09 April 2021The government is investing 646 million euros and has set aside a further 3.5 billion to drive economic growth in the Netherlands. Much of the Nationa...
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Article on Affective Computing by Andreas Häuselmann published in IDPL16 March 2021Affective Computing (AC and sometimes called ‘Emotional AI’) provides opportunities to automatically process emotional data. However, is EU data prote...
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Meet archaeologist Tuna Kalayci: ‘How can we integrate robots into archaeology?’10 March 2021In the course of 2020 the Faculty of Archaeology was bolstered by some new staff members. Due to the coronavirus situation, sadly, this went for a lar...
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Artificial Intelligence learns faster with quantum technology09 March 2021An international collaboration, including Leiden physicist and computer scientist Vedran Dunjko, showed that quantum technology can speed-up the learn...
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LUMC uses artificial intelligence to calculate lung damage in coronavirus patients08 March 2021With the aid of artificial intelligence (AI), care professionals at the LUMC (Leiden University Medical Center) are able to calculate quickly and accu...
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AI, Peace, Justice and Security in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam25 February 2021The AI research in the area of peace, justice and security at each of the three universities in Zuid-Holland complements the AI research being perform...
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Medical Delta AI for Computational Life Sciences16 February 2021The fact that scientists are increasingly better able to access molecular cell and tissue data also brings with it a new challenge: how can scientists...
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A promising marriage between Siemens and Leiden spin-off Culgi04 February 2021Siemens recently took over the Leiden software company Culgi, founded by professor and inventor J.G.E.M. (Hans) Fraaije. We spoke to him about the alg...
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Holger Hoos appointed ACM Fellow18 January 2021On 13 January 2020, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named 95 members ACM Fellows who have demonstrated excellence across many discip...
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Artificial intelligence helps in the search for new antibiotics14 January 2021With the search for new antibiotics becoming increasingly urgent, artificial intelligence offers valuable help. Smart software developed by Leiden PhD...
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New project uses artificial intelligence in drug development04 January 2021In health care, artificial intelligence is quite normal: it is used, for example, as an aid in making diagnoses. However, artificial intelligence is n...
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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...