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‘Privacy is shifting from Big Brother to Kafka’On the Day of Privacy, 28 January, the European Commission is calling on citizens to make sure they protect their personal data. But how do you do tha...
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Interactive models: Matthijs van Leeuwen receives NWO TOP grantMatthijs van Leeuwen of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science develops methods to make computer models interactive. With interactive model...
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Can we measure the privacy component of online advertising?On 29 January 2019, Robbert J. van Eijk will defend his Ph.D thesis, in which he investigates the online advertisements that seem to follow you.
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Investigating the impact of nanoparticles on the environmentOn Tuesday 4 September, Martina Vijver delivered the scientific lecture during the academic opening of the Faculty of Science. Martina is professor in...
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Start of second group in data science for policy course at Ministry of IenWOn Wednesday, 5 September 2018, the second group of employees of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW) started the managerial tra...
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How can we connect data science and law?At the Hague University of Applied Sciences, a stakeholder meeting took place on 4 April in the context of peace and justice in a digital world. The m...
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Symposium with first cohort of Data Science PhD studentsOn Tuesday, January 30th, the first symposium of the Data Science Research Programme took place at the Sylvius Building.
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Aske Plaat and Catholijn Jonker at BNR De Nieuwe WereldIn the BNR Newsradioprogram De Nieuwe Wereld, professors Aske Plaat (Data Science) and Catholijn Jonker (Explainable AI) of the computer science insti...
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'Biologists also need to be a bit of a data analyst’Biologists today have to be able to work with big data. Data analysis skills should be taught from the start of the degree programme, or - even better...
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Magnifying the minuteMaking all those things we normally cannot see visible is the challenge that fascinates Fons Verbeek, Leiden's new Professor of Computational Bio-Imag...
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Making policy with big dataGovernments have increasing amounts of data at their disposal. How can big data be used in policymaking? And are governments ready to deal with all th...
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Wessel Kraaij recognized as Distinguished Member of the ACM for outstanding contributions to computingOn November 8, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Wessel Kraaij as one of the 2017 Distinguished Members. ACM Distinguished Members h...
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Artificial intelligence to extend, not replace human capabilitiesComputers are increasingly able to accomplish tasks that are difficult for human experts, such as diagnosing diseases or detecting credit card fraud. ...
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Leiden University and Ministry of IenM start data science collaborationLeiden University and the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (IenM) will join forces in the field of data science.
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Leiden bachelor students analyse data EC soccerLeiden bachelor students analyse data EC soccer Students are now familiar with something sports journalists already knew: summer holidays can be a ti...