By spreading fake news via TV spots and Twitter with the use of Social Bots, Pascal professor Heike Trautmann is investigating the characteristics of ...

Mirjam van Reisen favours big data built up from local inputs in developing countries and suitable for local use. The new Professor of Computing for S...

Data science and statistics are closely linked, says Spinoza laureate and Stochastics professor Aad van der Vaart. We talk with him about the big data...

Astronomers have discovered seven Earth-like planets around a dwarf star in our galaxy. Three of these planets are located in the habitable zone of th...

Comparing individual health data with group data allows doctors to give personalised advice and patients to learn from one another's experiences. Wess...

The German professor of Information Systems and Statistics Heike Trautmann accepted the Pascal chair this month at LIACS, the computer science institu...

Leiden University computer scientists Yu Liu, Yanming Guo and Michael Lew are a step closer to their ultimate goal: search engines with visual recogni...

Seven bachelor students in Computer Science at Leiden University are participating in a research project on big data and event management. Their work ...

Data play an important role in any organization. More and more data are available about products, about production processes and about customers. At t...

New digital methods and a data explosion are radically changing archaeological research. Karsten Lambers, Associate Professor of Archaeological Comput...

We produce more data than ever before, and researchers gather more and more information. That data contains a wealth of insights and new possibilities...

The Centre for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce that we are searching for two PhD Candidates who will carry out research within the Centre fo...

By analysing the metabolism using big data techniques, we can identify health risks at an earlier stage. Thomas Hankemeier, professor of Analytical Bi...

The Sport Data Center of, among others, Leiden University, has been added to the group of Sportinnovator expert centers. Sportinnovator is the Dutch n...

A research project by Developmental Psychology professor Carolien Rieffe and researchers of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science has been...