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From idea to impact: making innovations usable03 February 2025Innovations only achieve true success when people actually use them. PhD researcher Max van Haastrecht developed a cybersecurity app for small busines...
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Supercomputer ALICE is even more powerful, and that is good news for many disciplines03 January 2024Supercomputer ALICE has been expanded, making it even more powerful and faster. This means researchers and students can work with heavier models. From...
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New professor Suzan Verberne aims to bring large language models and search engines closer together12 October 2023Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October...
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Helping cancer patients with treatment choices20 December 2022Researchers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are collaborating on the development of a conversation tool for patients with...
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Cycling like a Jumbo-Visma pro with the Leiden data model28 July 2022Just like the professional riders from the Jumbo-Visma team, amateur cyclists will soon be able to analyse and improve their performance. Leiden data ...
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Matthijs van Leeuwen: 'I want to teach students responsible data science'15 June 2022Computer scientist Matthijs van Leeuwen is one of four science faculty members who obtained the Senior Qualification in Education in 2021. What was th...
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Hackathon about anonymity in social networks was a great success16 May 2022How anonymous is an individual in a social network? And is it possible for hackers to extract sensitive information from data? These were the main top...
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First professionals obtained their certificates Legal Technologies: ‘It was intensive, fun, and enlightening’12 April 2022Last week, the first seven professionals successfully completed the new Leiden Legal Technologies Programme (LLTP). They received their certificates d...
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Algorithms combat environmental pollution from ships04 April 2022Did you know that algorithms can help with the prevention of air pollution and ships sinking in the sea? A team of Leiden University researchers have ...
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From basic research to healthcare tools29 March 2022On April 1, Marco Spruit, Professor of Advanced Data Science in Population Health at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Leiden Instit...
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Customer-friendly Dutch chatbots28 March 2022Ever heard of conversational artificial intelligence (AI)? Anyone who has ever interacted with Siri or Alexa is familiar with this technology. We use ...
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Algorithms can also learn without examples28 February 2022In donut-shaped buildings, particle accelerators take super-detailed X-ray images. Yet those images are not good enough to learn how to drive on hydro...
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Researcher develops Google for archaeologists04 February 2022An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this ma...
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Measuring skate provides insight into ice-skating technique28 January 2022In the future top Dutch speed skaters may skate even faster thanks to a skate full of electronics. This ‘measuring skate’ gives top skaters and coache...
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‘Data science has crept into the faculties’ DNA’05 July 2021From 14 to 29 PhD candidates, seven actively involved faculties and, above all, lots of innovative interdisciplinary research, all with data science a...