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Why a drag queen is given less exposure than a white supremacist 23 March 2020Technology is developing at a mind-blowing rate, also in the field of artificial intelligence. For minority groups such as the LGBTQ+ community, this ...
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Correspondence article by Eduard Fosch-Villaronga in Nature Machine Intelligence 12 February 2020Robot technology is flourishing in multiple sectors of society, including retail, health care, industry and education. However, are robots representat...
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Leiden astronomers discover potential near-Earth objects 12 February 2020Three Leiden astronomers have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with Earth in the future. They did their res...
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‘Universities and government should take the lead in the fight against cybercrime’ 07 February 2020From ransomware to Citrix traffic jams: over the past few months Dutch organisations were regularly brought to a standstill by serious cyber attacks. ...
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NWO grant for smart software that searches for new medicines 04 February 2020Gerard van Westen and his group, together with pharmaceutical company Galapagos, start on developing software that invents new effective molecules. Th...
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Stephan Raaijmakers appointed Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) 13 January 2020Since November 2019 Stephan Raaijmakers is Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) at LUCL. Raaijmakers investi...
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Robots at the School of Law? 10 January 2020At 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 2019How 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 2019Robots, 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 2019Alex 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 2019Is 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 2019A 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 2019The 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 2019As 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 2019In 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...