699 search results for “robotics artificial intelligence” in the Staff website
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Embedded System Software Engineer (Research and Education support) (0.8-1.0fte)
Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
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eLaw teaches at Haifa University
In May 2021, Professor Bart Custers, Dr Mark Leiser and Dr Eduard Fosch Villaronga (all affiliated to eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies of Leiden University) will teach a course on Law and Technology at Haifa University, Israel.
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Breakthrough artificial photosynthesis comes closer
Imagine we could do what green plants can do: photosynthesis. Then we could satisfy our enormous energy needs with deep-green hydrogen and climate-neutral biodiesel. Scientists have been working on this for decades. Chemist Chengyu Liu will receive his doctorate on 8 June for yet another step that brings…
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How to make AI systems learn better
Artificial intelligence systems are smart. They can recognize patterns better than humans, for example. Yet humans are still very much needed. How can you better steer those AI systems? LIACS lecturer Jan van Rijn wrote a book about this together with a number of colleagues. We asked him a few quest…
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Two AI Grants for Leiden University
NWO (the Dutch Research Council) has granted more than 10 million euros for five human-centered AI research projects (2.1M€ each). Leiden University participates in two of these five research proposals, which are called ELSA labs.
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Artificial Intelligence Playing Ancient Games: Computational Techniques for Board Games Heritage
Lecture
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TEMPORAL project helps improving hearing of the deaf
Electrical inner ear prostheses like Cochlear Implants (CIs) help deaf and severely hearing-impaired persons to regain many of their communication abilities. The performance of CI in social environments is, however, not optimal. The new "Machine learning To Enhance teMPoral cOding foR cochleAr impLants“…
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Fusing electrical stimulation, wearable robots & humans to restore and enhance mobility
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, contributed to 'Cyber–Physical–Human Systems', a book exploring the latest developments in interactions between cyber–physical systems and humans.
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Customer-friendly Dutch chatbots
Ever heard of conversational artificial intelligence (AI)? Anyone who has ever interacted with Siri or Alexa is familiar with this technology. We use conversational AI every day these days and it is becoming increasingly important in service and sales. A consortium of Dutch scientists and companies…
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: 'Focus on what's really important'
Developing a digital guest lecture for high school students. Jan Sleutels was immediately enthusiastic when he got asked to do this. The end result? Together with his colleague Maarten Lamers, he created the guest lecture 'Thinking about Artificial Intelligence'.
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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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Tycho de Graaf
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Elise Dusseldorp
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Bram Klievink
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Yumeng Wang
Science
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Frank Takes
Science
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Marjolein Fokkema
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Weiyan Low
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Milco Wansleeben
Faculteit Archeologie
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Quentin Bourgeois
Faculteit Archeologie
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Daphne Wong-A-Foe
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Cor Veenman
Science
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Masha Medvedeva
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Roeland Merks
Science
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Ramira van der Meulen
Science
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Daniel Vale
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hongchang Shan
Science
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Mert Yazan
Science
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Fons Verbeek
Science
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Madalina Busuioc
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jaap van den Herik
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Serge Rombouts
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anthe Janssen
Science
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Joost Batenburg
Science
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Tessa Verhoef
Science
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Sebastian Fajardo Bernal
Science
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Michael Lew
Science
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Hermen Overkleeft
Science
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Jan van Rijn
Science
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Simona Demkova
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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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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Minors in AI, Data & Digitialisation in Delft, Leiden and Rotterdam
The universities of Delft, Leiden and Rotterdam are working together to show their students what artificial intelligence (AI) means for their own field. Three AI minors will start in the 2022 – 2023 academic year and will answer questions such as: ‘How best can you use AI in your research discipline?’…
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Artificial ''Intelligence'' versus Human Dignity: Issues of Fairness and Power in Algorithmic Decisions
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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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Director of the MIVD General Swillens visits ISGA to talk about intelligence cooperation
On 15 December, Director of the MIVD General Jan Swillens, visited the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) to give a lecture on international intelligence cooperation together with ISGA/NLDA researcher Pepijn Tuinier. This event, co-organised by the Intelligence and Security Group and the…
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Tom Kouwenhoven wants to develop a bridge between AI and humans
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 the SAILS programme, investigates how humans and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can better communicate with each other, so that these kinds of situations…
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Whispering out loud
Whispp, a Leiden-based speech technology start-up, is developing an app to help people who stutter express themselves more freely. Among those working together with Joris Castermans and his team at Whispp, are researchers and students from the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).
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eLaw joins Horizon Europe BIAS webinar on citizen science and AI technologies
On 9 October 2023, Carlotta Rigotti and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga participated in the BIAS webinar on citizen science and AI technologies, namely the first awareness-raising activity of the Horizon Europe BIAS project. They discussed online citizens’ engagement on tackling gender and intersectional biases…
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Algoprudence: presentation report Risk Profiling for Social Welfare Re-examination to Dutch Minister for Digitalisation
Francien Dechesne, Associate Professor at eLaw, contributed as an expert to the advisory report of the organisation AlgorithmAudit, which was presented to the Dutch Minister for Digitalisation Alexandra van Huffelen on Wednesday 29 November 2023. The report contains a number of concrete norms to avoid…