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Robots at the School of Law? 10 January 2020
At the end of November, eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, welcomed leading international scholars with interdiscipl...
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Building with algorithms: looking for the optimal design 09 December 2019
How can computers help design optimal buildings? PhD student Koen van der Blom makes algorithms that take into account all kinds of different architec...
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Children compete against each other with robots 25 November 2019
Robots, nervous looks and above all, lots of fun. On November 16, children up to 16 years old came together for the MakeX competition. With this robot...
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444 Interdisciplinary Activity Grant for Alex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart 24 October 2019
Alex Brandsen and Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart, PhD candidates in the Digital Archaeology research group and the Data Science Research Programme, ha...
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eLaw hosted valorization workshop SCALES project 18 October 2019
Is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adequate in ensuring responsible innovation using data analytics? What is the role of ethics with reg...
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AI Impact Assessment distributed in the USA 05 September 2019
A practical checklist with legal, technical and ethical points of view will from now on guide the data scientists when working in Artificial Intellige...
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Gravitation Grant for combining human and artificial intelligence 30 August 2019
The project Hybrid Intelligence receives 19 million euros from the Gravitation programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The consortium consists ...
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Chinese whispers in the name of science at Lowlands 18 July 2019
As long as we humans have existed, we have told each other stories. But how does a story change each time it is told? Which elements stick and which o...
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Tim van Erven makes computers even smarter 15 July 2019
In high school, Tim van Erven read about an artificially intelligent algorithm that could solve mazes. From that moment on, he was sold: ‘There’s some...
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AI and Ethics at the Dutch Police 09 July 2019
eLaw in collaboration with the TU Delft Design for Values Institute finalized the research on “Artificial Intelligence and Ethics at the Dutch Police”...
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Governments overly optimistic about the use of digital innovations 16 May 2019
The government is digitalizing and making use of ‘big data’ in its decision making processes. But the expectations of digitalization are often overly ...
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Preserve burial mounds from the comfort of your own home 10 May 2019
The new Erfgoed Gezocht/Heritage Quest website means you can play armchair detective and hunt for undiscovered burial mounds in the Veluwe. This will ...
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Challenges for the Security and Stability of Cyberspace and their Impact upon Global Stability 06 May 2019
On Thursday 2 May, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) of Leiden University hosted a guest lecture given by former NATO Assistant Secr...
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Free symposium reveals surprising uses of AI 26 March 2019
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help humans in many different ways: from customised medicine and self-driving cars to preserving our cultural heritag...
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Major steps towards realising a bold vision for European Excellence in AI 15 March 2019
The Confederation of Laboratories of Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE), Europe’s grassroots organisation of scientists and experts i...