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The Netherlands-Brazil: 1-1 21 December 2016
The Sport Data Center wants to unravel the secrets of Dutch and Brazilian football, together with a diverse group of partners. Furthermore, the consor...
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Digging up new information from ancient Chinese texts 13 December 2016
How were ideas about politics and society distributed in ancient China? Hilde De Weerdt, Professor of Chinese History, investigates this using new dig...
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Researchers learn to make their work more reproducible at COS workshop 08 November 2016
How can we increase the openness and reproducibility of quantitative research? This was the central theme of a workshop on openness and reproducibilit...
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Staying healthy with big data 18 October 2016
By analysing the metabolism using big data techniques, we can identify health risks at an earlier stage. Thomas Hankemeier, professor of Analytical Bi...
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Sport Data Center receives 250,000 euros 16 October 2016
The Sport Data Center of, among others, Leiden University, has been added to the group of Sportinnovator expert centers. Sportinnovator is the Dutch n...
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Leiden researchers win public award in Smartest Project contest 04 October 2016
A research project by Developmental Psychology professor Carolien Rieffe and researchers of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science has been...
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Exploring new methods at Research Lab Legal Data Science 02 October 2016
How can data analytics be used as a research method in the field of legal research? This question was addressed during the Research Lab Legal Data Sci...
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Sports and data analytics: discovering the unknown known 07 September 2016
The combination of data science and sports is a hot topic. In a talk during the opening of the Academic Year at the Faculty of Science, Professor Joos...
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Leiden University and ICTU start research on software development 09 July 2016
How can we further streamline the development of software for the government? Leiden University and ICTU are to investigate this in a joint research p...
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Aja Huang: 'The power of AlphaGo is in the use of neural networks' 01 July 2016
How did Google's computer programme AlphaGo become so powerful? On June 29, developer Aja Huang elaborated on this during a lecture in the Gorlaeus bu...
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Lecture: Aja Huang (Google DeepMind) on AlphaGo 22 June 2016
How did Google’s computer programme AlphaGo become so good at board game Go that it could defeat the world champion? On June 29, developer Aja Huang w...
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Computer science research in Leiden of major relevance to society 07 June 2016
An international committee has assessed computer science research at all Dutch universities in the period 2009-2014. For its computer science research...
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Searching for the wanted and unwanted effects of innovation 28 April 2016
How does ICT affect society? Mirjam van Reisen, professor Computing for Society at the Leiden Centre of Data Science, is intrigued by this question. W...
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Leiden University launches Data Science research programme 14 April 2016
Leiden University is investing 4 million euros in a new Data Science research programme. This is a joint initiative of all the faculties, headed by De...
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Data science and sports: a winning combination 13 April 2016
Athletes always strive for the top. How can data scientists assist them in improving their performance? During the seminar Data Science and Sports, th...