2,342 search results for “machine history” in the Public website
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
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Conference on opportunities and dangers of AI: ‘Europe needs a daring vision’
The SAILS conference The Future of AI is Here (and Guess What … it’s Human) brought together researchers and policy makers to discuss the important issues in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). Where are the opportunities and what are the dangers?
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‘Leiden has a special atmosphere, almost like a family’
From a lovely blossoming garden in Barcelona, Eduard Fosch Villaronga is talking enthusiastically about his postdoc at Leiden University. Due to the corona lockdown, he is currently spending the 2020 summer at his mother’s place, but he is looking forward to returning to Leiden (and to the Dutch bit…
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientists
Leiden scientists are the main applicants for five projects that have been awarded a Science Groot grant of up to 3 million euros in the Science Domain. In addition, several Leiden scientists are involved in other projects that have been awarded funding.
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Sports Centre celebrates 50 years
Online competitions, online sports, dietary advice for staff and students and 'What do they eat for lunch?' The first 'volunteer' is Vice-Rector Hester Bijl. What does her lunch usually consist of? The University Sports Centre is celebrating its fifty-year anniversary with a whole - corona-proof - programme…
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Thousands of images of frozen bacteria
How do bacteria sense and adapt to their environment? Ariane Briegel, Professor of Ultrastructural Biology, is intrigued by this question. Using new techniques, she produces three-dimensional images of bacteria that provide us with new clues about their sensory system.
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Minister Ollongren impresses with personal speech: 'Our strongest weapons are people'
After 2.5 years as defence minister, it is time for Kajsa Ollongen to hand over the baton. In front of a packed audience, she gave her farewell speech at Leiden University in The Hague on Tuesday, which included personal lessons and memories, from sleeping on the ground with the prime minister to the…
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Voice of the ocean
There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in the world’s most prestigious sailing competition: the Ocean Race.
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How two metal detectorists discovered a complete Roman treasure
In 2017, in an ordinary field, two brothers from Brabant discovered more than 100 ancient coins. The Leiden historian who examined the coins concluded that they constituted a genuine Roman treasure. Here follows a reconstruction in three acts.
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AI-enabled ultrasound: LUC alumna empowers women in rural Africa
AI ultrasounds: LUC alumna empowers women in rural Africa
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Dies Natalis all about innovating and connecting
‘We could share our knowledge more with others and apply it more widely,’ said Annetje Ottow, President of the Executive Board, while presenting the new Strategic Plan on the University’s 447th Dies Natalis. The new Strategic Plan therefore focuses on innovating and connecting, among disciplines and…
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Structural biochemistry of the pentraxins
PhD defence
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LCCP Research Seminar: After the Universal - On the Language of Co-Existence
Lecture
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Dutch Network Science Society Symposium 2022
Conference
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Computational modeling of non-native phonetic learning and spoken word processing
Lecture
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LCN2 Seminar March 2023
Lecture
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The pervasive role of style and the surprising inefficacy of informativity in lexical choice
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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EU Privacy and Data Protection Law applied to AI: Unveiling the Legal Problems for Individuals
PhD defence
- Open Science Coffee in International Data Week: pilots for preparing, publishing and monitoring Leiden research data
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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Pushing the Frontiers of Federated Learning: From Security Applications to Mitigation of Poisoning Attack
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Bram Caers
Lecture
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The PolSci Bookshelf: books released in 2023
The end of the year often means looking back with lists, overviews and stories. This combines nicely in a list of all the books published this year by various political scientists at Leiden University. Indeed, in terms of books, these scholars have certainly not been idle. A unique collection of stories,…
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Reports
Overview of the CML reports
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Poster sessions
Speech Prosody 2024 includes several poster sessions, the description of which you can find below.
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The Processes of Conversion to Islam in Contemporary Spain: From the Betrayal of Spain to Community Insertion
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2024
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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CCLS Seminar
Lecture, Center of Computational Life Sciences
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Causal Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities
Lecture
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Connecting conditionals: A Corpus-based Approach to Conditional Constructions in Dutch
PhD defence
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To explore the drug space smarter: Artificial intelligence in drug design for G protein-coupled receptors
PhD defence
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Functional Islets and Where to Find Them
PhD defence
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Withstanding the cold: energy feedback in simulations of galaxies that include a cold interstellar medium
PhD defence
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How do we walk in crowds? A brief journey from crowd physics to smart environments
Lecture
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AI & Humanities, Help, Hype or Hassle
Conference
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Visual Construction of the Dutch: From the Perspective of the “Tōjin”
Lecture
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Scheduled Protocol Programming
PhD defence
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SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop
Lecture
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Meaning or what? The semantics of ChatGPT
Lecture
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LIMS talk
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Global Challenges: The Regime of Lukashenka
Lecture
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Educational Innovation Hub
Since its founding, LUC has been a college of educational development and experimentation. Its mission statement identifies the college as “a site of innovation in pedagogy, curriculum design, and student well-being,” and it applies a student-centred approach to learning throughout its BA and BSc degree…
- Publication highlights
- 'Sound Matters': An exploratory Workshop into Sound and Digital Humanities
- Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture
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Conflict Escalation: Explaining the Rise of Violence
Lecture