News
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Grant for Elastix medical imaging software 03 June 2020
LUMC researcher Marius Staring will receive a $ 200,000 grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to improve the accessibility, interoperability and e...
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Nele Mentens joins LIACS as Professor of Applied Cryptography & Data Security 03 June 2020
Finding solutions for economically and socially relevant problems in digital data security. That is what Nele Mentens, Professor of Applied Cryptograp...
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Finding unique drug structures with artificial intelligence and chemistry 26 May 2020
In the search for new medicines against diseases such as cancer, a Leiden team has developed a new workflow. This approach combines artificial intelli...
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Employing Artificial Intelligence in the search for archaeological remains 25 May 2020
Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart has developed a way to use Deep Learning and geography software to rapidly and systematically map prehistoric barrows, ...
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More efficient drug development with the help of computer models 19 May 2020
The coronavirus has the world in its grip. Finding a cure has never been more important. Unfortunately, the development of new drugs for treatment of ...
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From smarter cities to epidemic control: algorithms can help 06 April 2020
Where should you plant ten trees so that as many city-dwellers as possible can enjoy them? If a smart algorithm knows how people move through the city...
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AI versus corona 02 April 2020
It’s all hands on deck at the moment to resolve the COVID-19 crisis. Researchers from various disciplines are helping where they can, also from the fi...
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John Mydosh and the mystery of the Hidden Order 30 March 2020
A 35-year-old uranium crystal will not disclose its secret: what causes a dramatic phase transition at 17.5 Kelvin? Thanks to a new artificial intelli...
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Major win for CLAIRE in 50 million euro round of “seed funding” 26 March 2020
The European Commission has released 50 million euro to strengthen artificial intelligence in Europe. Five consortia were selected to spend this 50 mi...
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Why a drag queen is given less exposure than a white supremacist 23 March 2020
Technology 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 2020
Robot 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 2020
Three 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 2020
From 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 2020
Gerard 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 2020
Since November 2019 Stephan Raaijmakers is Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) at LUCL. Raaijmakers investi...