301 search results for “artificial intelligence” in the Staff website
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BrAInpower exhibition: tremendous and troubling uses of AI in our daily lives
Care robots, medical treatments, deepfakes and self-driving cars all with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). The BrAInpower exhibition at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave shows spectacular applications of AI and explains how it can make such huge leaps. Bas Haring, Professor of Public Understanding of Science,…
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Constant Hijzen
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Lena Riecke
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Executive Board column: ChatGPT, threat or opportunity?
ChatGPT, the text-generating chatbot, has recently become available for anyone to use. Is this artificial intelligence (AI) tool a threat to our teaching?
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Artificial microswimmers work together like bacteria
Microscopic swimmers such as bacteria do not always swim alone. There are advantages to exchanging information and cooperating. Stefania Ketzetzi and colleagues now show in Nature Communications that human-made microswimmers, too, can cooperate.
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Hollywood strike: Is AI really a threat to actors?
Better pay and new agreements with streaming platforms: the actors’ strike that brought Hollywood to a standstill a few days ago is mainly about money. But there is something else that film actors are worried about: the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence. Is this fear justified?
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Grant for development of artificial green fuels
Researchers at Leiden University have been awarded a €4 million EU grant to develop climate-neutral fuels. With this money they will expand the broad research community that focuses on green energy. If we work together, we can make the rapid progress that is needed, says Prof. Huub de Groot, Professor…
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Joost Beltman
Science
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Visit by Members of Parliament highlights interdisciplinary research and collaboration
High-quality education, research involving multiple faculties, collaboration between universities and central government funding to make all this possible: these were the topics covered in a working visit of the Standing Committee for Education, Culture and Science (OCW) to the Association of Universities…
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Can we make bioplastics with artificial photosynthesis?
Mimicking photosynthesis to produce bioplastics sustainably and efficiently. Researchers from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) and the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC) will assess this new approach. ‘An exciting opportunity to explore a new, appealing research topic in a collaboration between…
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
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Free course on AI and Ethics: ‘Every citizen should know more about this’
The free AI and Ethics course (in Dutch) is available online to anyone who wants to find out more about the ethical implications of artificial intelligence. One of the eight experts featured in the course is Professor Reijer Passchier. ‘Artificial Intelligence is spreading so fast and has such an impact…
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Two directors of education for LIACS
Matthijs van Leeuwen and Frank Takes have been appointed directors of education at LIACS as of 1 September. They will succeed Marcello Bonsangue, who has held the position since 2016. Van Leeuwen and Takes have been appointed for a period of four years.
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Jaap van den Herik receives royal distinction on his retirement
Jaap van den Herik was appointed Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau on 8 October on his retirement as professor of Law and Information Technology.
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SAILS Mini-Symposium on Legal Search Technologies
Lecture
- Scholarships
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Patrick Antenbrink
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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I-Fan Lin
Science
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, seminar series
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar Sustainability
Lecture
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AI versus the fire
Festival
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Leiden AI Week
Leidse AI-Week
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Peter van der Putten on Robo Rabbi and a robot that performs funeral rituals
Can a robot rekindle the waning interest in Buddhism in Japan? University lecturer Peter van der Putten researches the philosophical and social questions related to artificial intelligence. He also investigates whether computers and robots can take over creativity, emotions and other human characteristics.…
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Liselore Tissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth van der Heide
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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The Future of faith and responsible technology & AI
Lecture
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NL Scholarship - Incoming students
Bachelor
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AI Journal prominent paper award winners
Professor of Machine learning Holger Hoos together with Frank Hutter, Lin Xu and Kevin Leyton-Brown won the prestigious Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) Prominent Paper Award of this year.
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar Sustainability
Lecture
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Bart Vogelaar
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
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SAILS
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Search the scholarly literature more efficiently with AI
Library, Research
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What happens on the schoolyard? Sensors on clothing reveal painful patterns
Wat gebeurt er op het schoolplein? Sensoren op kleding openbaren pijnlijke patronen
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Diego Barbosa Arize Santos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Thomas Maguire
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jelle van Buuren
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Willemijn Aerdts
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Simon Willmetts
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Michiel Kreutzer to return to Delft University of Technology
Professor Michiel Kreutzer, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, will move to Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) on 1 May. Alongside his professorship, he will focus on university initiatives in the field of innovation in education.
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Applications open: Una Europa One Health Summer School for PhD candidates
Education
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Una Europa Seed Funding Call: collaborate with researchers in Europe and Africa
Organisation, Research
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‘Data science has crept into the faculties’ DNA’
From 14 to 29 PhD candidates, seven actively involved faculties and, above all, lots of innovative interdisciplinary research, all with data science as the common denominator. The university’s Data Science Research Programme (DSO) has proven so successful that after five years on a start-up grant it…
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CCLS Matchmaking Event
Conference, Matchmaking Event
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CCLS Matchmaking Event
Conference, Matchmaking Event
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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CCLS Seminar
Lecture, Center of Computational Life Sciences
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‘Ultimately, the goal is to develop antibiotics for tuberculosis with a lower risk of resistance’
Tuberculosis stands as one of the most lethal infectious diseases worldwide. A significant challenge in combatting tuberculosis lies in the emergence of antibiotic resistance triggered by genetic alterations, commonly known as mutations. These mutations can diminish the responsiveness to antibiotics,…