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LUMC uses artificial intelligence to calculate lung damage in coronavirus patients 08 March 2021With the aid of artificial intelligence (AI), care professionals at the LUMC (Leiden University Medical Center) are able to calculate quickly and accu...
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AI, Peace, Justice and Security in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam 25 February 2021The AI research in the area of peace, justice and security at each of the three universities in Zuid-Holland complements the AI research being perform...
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Medical Delta AI for Computational Life Sciences 16 February 2021The fact that scientists are increasingly better able to access molecular cell and tissue data also brings with it a new challenge: how can scientists...
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A promising marriage between Siemens and Leiden spin-off Culgi 04 February 2021Siemens recently took over the Leiden software company Culgi, founded by professor and inventor J.G.E.M. (Hans) Fraaije. We spoke to him about the alg...
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Holger Hoos appointed ACM Fellow 18 January 2021On 13 January 2020, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named 95 members ACM Fellows who have demonstrated excellence across many discip...
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Artificial intelligence helps in the search for new antibiotics 14 January 2021With the search for new antibiotics becoming increasingly urgent, artificial intelligence offers valuable help. Smart software developed by Leiden PhD...
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New project uses artificial intelligence in drug development 04 January 2021In health care, artificial intelligence is quite normal: it is used, for example, as an aid in making diagnoses. However, artificial intelligence is n...
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Dutch collaboration wins HPC Innovation Excellence Award for the first time 21 December 2020A Dutch collaboration, including the SURF Open Innovation Lab and Leiden Observatory, has won Hyperion Research's HPC Innovation Excellence Award. Thi...
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Assessing the safety of chemicals and medicines without laboratory animals 02 December 2020One of the holy grails of drug research is to be able to assess the safety of chemicals and pharmaceuticals without using laboratory animals. Research...
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BNAIC/Benelearn conference big success 23 November 2020Reinforcement learning, agents and classification: these are just some of the topics researchers on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning discu...
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Anne Meuwese appointed Professor of Public Law & Governance of AI 27 October 2020Anne Meuwese is appointed Professor of Public Law & Governance of AI at Leiden University as of 1 November 2020. This position is part of the Universi...
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New AI hub in Zuid-Holland 05 October 2020The region of Zuid-Holland is launching ‘AI Hub Zuid-Holland’. This network organisation will be a single point of contact for business and knowledge ...
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NWO subsidy for archaeological search engine: ‘There is no physical digging involved!’ 28 September 2020When you want to analyse big quantities of archaeological data, you run into the issue that searching through excavation reports is extremely time-con...
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AI research in Zuid-Holland: three examples 24 September 2020How designers are even more creative with a robot in their team, how Twitter could predict the stock market, and how to catch a single bacterium in th...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely setting 07 September 2020From a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...