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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023
The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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Artificial intelligence project to accelerate MRI scans receives 2 million euros 09 January 2023
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University and Philips are jointly receiving over 2 million euros from NWO to set up an artificial int...
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Anne Dirkson wins Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award 2022 11 May 2022
The third edition of the Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award was won by Anne Dirkson, former LIACS PhD student. During her PhD she researched the...
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First professionals obtained their certificates Legal Technologies: ‘It was intensive, fun, and enlightening’ 12 April 2022
Last week, the first seven professionals successfully completed the new Leiden Legal Technologies Programme (LLTP). They received their certificates d...
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The hunt for the best computer language 10 May 2021
Our language is adapted to the context in which we humans communicate. But computers ‘think’ differently. What is the optimal form of a language for h...
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Tyron Offerman: ‘One straight line from when I was 5 to now’ 21 March 2019
Tyron Offerman wants to get the most out of life. This 28-year-old computer scientist and business economics graduate has an impressive three jobs: IT...
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From research project to market leader in cycling tours for elderly 09 November 2018
‘In Hong Kong, the elderly found our popular nature routes boring, so they now cycle our action-packed routes through New York.’ What once started as ...
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Augustinians reveal recipe for close friendships 10 August 2018
It is a holy grail among behavioural scientists: can you predict how close a group will become? An international research team from Leiden, Oxford and...
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Alumni mentors answer student’s questions 23 March 2017
Students get free advice of Leiden alumni about their career, applying for a job, social networking and more. The Mentor Network is an online platform...
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Designing a smart city together 31 January 2017
How can we make clever use of new technologies to improve quality of life in cities? The answer is in the NL Smart City Strategy, which Mark Rutte off...
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'Leiden' awarded for computational intelligence 19 December 2016
The Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science congratulates alumnus Pepijn van Heiningen and the with the Technische Hochschule Köln shared PhD-st...
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A PhD at 20 14 September 2016
Philosopher Stefan Buijsman obtained his doctorate this year at the age of 20 at the University of Stockholm, making him the youngest PhD in Sweden. H...