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Working with datasets that are larger than the entire university30 May 2017Radio telescope LOFAR maps the sky. It produces incredibly detailed images of the universe - and vast amounts of data. Huub Röttgering, director of th...
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Major Expansion Leiden Quantum Computing08 May 2017The 18.8 million euro NWO Zwaartekracht grant for quantum software which Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden landed collectively, means for Leiden University ...
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Generating fake news automatically as a research project28 March 2017By spreading fake news via TV spots and Twitter with the use of Social Bots, Pascal professor Heike Trautmann is investigating the characteristics of ...
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Big data on a small scale03 March 2017Mirjam 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...
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Big data cannot do without statistics28 February 2017Data science and statistics are closely linked, says Spinoza laureate and Stochastics professor Aad van der Vaart. We talk with him about the big data...
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Leiden planetary experts want to study seven ‘Earths’ in more detail23 February 2017Astronomers 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...
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Sharing personal health data21 February 2017Comparing individual health data with group data allows doctors to give personalised advice and patients to learn from one another's experiences. Wess...
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Statistician Heike Trautmann is Pascal professor 201715 February 2017The German professor of Information Systems and Statistics Heike Trautmann accepted the Pascal chair this month at LIACS, the computer science institu...
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New paradigm for visual recognition03 February 2017Leiden University computer scientists Yu Liu, Yanming Guo and Michael Lew are a step closer to their ultimate goal: search engines with visual recogni...
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Student project Computer Science for Volvo Ocean Race27 January 2017Seven bachelor students in Computer Science at Leiden University are participating in a research project on big data and event management. Their work ...
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Unexpected data are good for business26 January 2017Data play an important role in any organization. More and more data are available about products, about production processes and about customers. At t...
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From scarcity to abundance: big data in archaeology17 January 2017New digital methods and a data explosion are radically changing archaeological research. Karsten Lambers, Associate Professor of Archaeological Comput...
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Sifting through data the smart way11 January 2017We produce more data than ever before, and researchers gather more and more information. That data contains a wealth of insights and new possibilities...
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New PhD Positions in Centre of Data Science13 December 2016
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...
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Staying healthy with big data18 October 2016By analysing the metabolism using big data techniques, we can identify health risks at an earlier stage. Thomas Hankemeier, professor of Analytical Bi...