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AI and emotion recognition: ‘It could disrupt social interactions’Research 21 July 2025Just imagine new AI technology is able to read human emotions flawlessly. How would that affect us as humans? That is the question PhD candidate Alexa...
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GPS blunders and security risks: why do we blindly follow technology?Interview PhD candidate Daan Weggemans 12 February 2025Computer says no: end of story. Twenty years ago, a hilarious line in the British TV series Little Britain, now a reality. We all blindly follow techn...
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Mark Leiser appointed International Research Fellow25 April 2022Dr Mark Leiser, Assistant Professor in Law and Digital technologies at eLaw, has been appointed an International Research fellow at the Coordinated Re...
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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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Sweetie 2.0—Using Artificial Intelligence to Fight Webcam Child Sex Tourism22 July 2019In July 2019 Asser Press published the book 'Sweetie 2.0—Using Artificial Intelligence to Fight Webcam Child Sex Tourism’ which was coedited by Simone...
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E-zine on the national research programme 'the Digital Society'06 December 2018The fourteen Dutch universities have published a digital magazine in which the researchers explain the Digital Society programme in text and images.
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New website research programme Digital Society15 May 2018On 15 May the new website about the research programme Digital Society has been launched.
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Working visit by Minister Van Engelshoven focuses on digitisation of education30 January 2018How does online learning strengthen the quality of higher education and what are the barriers to implementing this more broadly? Minister of Education...
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VSNU presents Digital Society research agenda24 November 2017The Digital Society research agenda was presented by the Dutch universities during the VSNU Impact festival on 23 November.
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Sybille Lammes new professor of New Media and Digital Culture18 July 2017Sybille Lammes is leaving Warwick University in Britain to research digital culture in daily life at Leiden University. She will start as professor Ne...
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Social Science Matters: Online privacy09 March 2017In our digital society, the internet seems to offer endless possibilities for expressing yourself, gathering information, and making contact with othe...
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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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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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Centre for Innovation and LUMC win Surfnet Innovation Challenge02 November 2016The Leiden University Centre for Innovation and the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have won the Surfnet Innovation Challenge. The team won th...
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Public Administration at the front edge of Online Teaching Innovation01 November 2016This semester the institute of Public Administration launches two SPOCs about Public Values & Ethics and Research design. A SPOC is a Small Private On...