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Two AI Grants for Leiden University 07 February 2022
NWO (the Dutch Research Council) has granted more than 10 million euros for five human-centered AI research projects (2.1M€ each). Leiden University p...
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Developing drugs with artificial intelligence 07 February 2022
Developing new drugs is a difficult process. With the aid of artificial intelligence, Pharmaceutical scientist Xuhan Liu has developed methods that ca...
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Researcher develops Google for archaeologists 04 February 2022
An 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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Jan Kolen new Artificial Intelligence Coordinator at Leiden University 03 February 2022
The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Jan Kolen as the University’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Coordinator as of 1 February 2022. I...
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Measuring skate provides insight into ice-skating technique 28 January 2022
In 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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Legal expert Reijer Passchier on the law, Big Tech and Big Brother 18 January 2022
Is the child benefits scandal an omen for the future and will people’s lives soon be fully dominated by algorithms? Assistant Professor of Constitutio...
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Reijer Passchier on imbalance within Trias Politica and Big Tech 11 January 2022
What is the impact of digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the functioning of our constitution? Reijer Passchier, Assistant Professor of...
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SAILS researcher Anne Meuwese awarded PDI-SSH grant 26 November 2021
The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers a...
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Leiden researchers work on exhibition about growth addiction 27 October 2021
Museum De Lakenhal issued an open call for creative solutions to the problem of growth addiction. From over 500 submissions, they selected 15 artworks...
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Visit by Members of Parliament highlights interdisciplinary research and collaboration 29 June 2021
High-quality education, research involving multiple faculties, collaboration between universities and central government funding to make all this poss...
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‘Teaching a robot to fry an egg isn’t as easy as you’d think’ 15 June 2021
‘AI can’t do half as much as people think,’ says computer scientist and psychologist Roy de Kleijn. He tries to teach robots seemingly easy things, an...
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Melanie Fink and Barbora Budinská on EU Law Live 03 June 2021
On 10 May 2021, Melanie Fink and Barbora Budinská published their views on recent developments in the areas of EU regulation of Artificial Intelligenc...
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AI in port and maritime research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam 31 May 2021
From a ship that has been designed to tell you what maintenance it needs and when, to an intelligent journey planner for global goods transport. The t...
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Tom Kouwenhoven wants to develop a bridge between AI and humans 26 May 2021
It is a familiar phenomenon: you ask the assistant on your phone to call your mother, but it calls a friend instead. Tom Kouwenhoven, PhD student in t...
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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...