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Simone van der Hof gives lecture on AI and combating online sexual abuse in Trier 19 February 2018
On 20 February 2018, Simone van der Hof will give a lecture on the use of AI in combating online sexual abuse of children at the Academy of European L...
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Inauguration computer cluster GRACE at LIACS 13 February 2018
By making two final network connections and entering a command, Martijn Ridderbos (Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board) , Geert de Snoo (Dean of th...
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Simone van der Hof on a working visit to China 27 November 2017
From 25 to 31 October, Professor Simone van der Hof was on a working visit to China with a delegation from Leiden Law School, including our dean Profe...
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Students are programming with qubits 14 March 2017
Students of the Leiden University master Computer Science are the first students in the world that have been educated in programming with a quantum co...
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New PhD Positions in Centre of Data Science 13 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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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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Jaap van den Herik: Intuition is programmable 29 January 2016
In the future, computers will be able to base their decisions on intuition. Professor Jaap van den Herik, director of the Leiden Centre of Data Scienc...
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25 million euros for research into energy from plants and algae 14 July 2009
On Friday 10 July the Towards Biosolar Cells research programme was granted a budget of 25 million euros by the Dutch Government. The Ministry of Agri...
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First step in converting solar energy using ‘artificial leaf’ 30 June 2009
Two things are needed to produce fuel from sunlight: an antenna that harvests light, and a light-driven catalyst. The most efficient antennae contain ...
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A week immersed in solar biofuels 21 April 2009
The Honours Class From Solar to Fuel with Bio consisted almost entirely of the workshop on Solar Biofuels from Micro-organisms that drew more than eig...