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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 ships 04 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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Customer-friendly Dutch chatbots 28 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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How to make AI systems learn better 22 March 2022Artificial intelligence systems are smart. They can recognize patterns better than humans, for example. Yet humans are still very much needed. How can...
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Algorithms can also learn without examples 28 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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Is a cancer pill a matter of time? 21 February 2022A cancer pill, preferably without severe side effects, is something we’d all welcome. Is it a matter of time before such a pill is a reality? We put t...
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Two AI Grants for Leiden University 07 February 2022NWO (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 2022Developing 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 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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Jan Kolen new Artificial Intelligence Coordinator at Leiden University 03 February 2022The 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 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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Legal expert Reijer Passchier on the law, Big Tech and Big Brother 18 January 2022Is 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 2022What 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 2021The 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 2021Museum De Lakenhal issued an open call for creative solutions to the problem of growth addiction. From over 500 submissions, they selected 15 artworks...