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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...
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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...