As of April 2022, Mark de Rooij has been appointed SAILS Professor AI and Data Theory at the Institute of Psychology. This position will enable him to contribute to the goal of the interdisciplinary programme: to build on and expand the current expertise on AI within Leiden University, working from…

Leiden Law School is organising a summer conference on Law and Artificial Intelligence as part of the interfaculty and interdisciplinary research programme on Artificial Intelligence (SAILS) at Leiden University.

The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to legal textual data from public bodies.

The SAILS Lunch Time Seminar is a bi-weekly online event organised by SAILS.

Fundamentally, this hackathon is about human and artificial intelligence. Human intelligence is commonly measured by means of an IQ test, quantifying the intellectual capabilities of a person in different domains such as analogical reasoning, vocabulary, processing speed, and general knowledge. Let’s…

Dr. Peter van der Putten is Assistent Professor AI at LIACS. Title: Artificial X Abstract: What is it what makes us uniquely human? Is it intelligence, or something else? In this talk I will give a broad overview of my research theme and practice Artificial X: investigating human qualities such…

Lecture, Seminar

Bi-weekly online seminar organised by SAILS

Bi-weekly online seminar organised by SAILS

bi-weekly seminar on artificial intelligence organised by SAILS

Rineke Verbrugge, Professor Logic and Cognition at Groningen University When engaging in social interaction, people rely on their ability to reason about other people’s mental states, including goals, intentions, and beliefs. This theory of mind ability allows them to more easily understand, predict,…

This project investigates the consequences of implementation choices when using machine learning (ML) to automate public sector decision making. ML has proven to be extremely susceptible to artifacts in training data that introduce bias and lead to suboptimal decision output. Public sector organizations…

Bi-weekly online seminar organised by SAILS

What to Include in a Future Children's Book about AI Bas Haring, professor of Public understanding of Science at LIACS.

Bi-weekly online seminar organised by SAILS

Lecture, Seminar

Empirical data -- the results of observations and measurements -- contain information about the world. But how much information do they contain, and what does this tell us about the structure of the world?

Lecture, Seminar

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André Krom - LUMC - Applied Ethics Title: TBC Abstract: TBC

Bi-weekly online seminar organised by SAILS

Lecture, Seminar

We typically associate machine learning with classification, regression, and clustering. But some machine learning tasks are extraction tasks: we have a sequence of data and we need to extract the relevant information from it. In text data, the relevant information we are looking for are typically entities…

Lecture, Seminar

Bi-weekly online seminar organised by SAILS

bi-weekly seminar on artificial intelligence organised by SAILS

bi-weekly seminar on artificial intelligence organised by SAILS

bi-weekly seminar on artificial intelligence organised by SAILS

The manual analysis of remotely-sensed data, i.e., information about the earth obtained by terrestrial, aerial, and spaceborne sensors, is a widespread practice in local and regional scale archaeological research, as well as heritage management. However, the ever-growing set of largely digitally and…

Conference, Mini symposium

Seminar

eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University invites you to attend the 2nd SAILS Conference on Law and AI. Following the success of last year's conference, this year will be dedicated to the book launch of the book: Law and Artificial Intelligence: Regulating…

Jan van Rijn, Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence The enormous potential of artificial intelligence is like a two-sided sword for society. When applied correctly, these systems can make a positive difference in our daily lives. On the other hand, sloppy deployment can lead to severe damage…

Archaeology is also digging with computers. This digital quest to find out how we humans lived in the past is what Karsten Lambers likes doing most. He is the first Professor of Digital and Computational Archaeology in the country. ‘A dream come true.’

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?’…

AI can help in the online detection of hate speech, but whether the technology would always make the right choices is debatable. Students Tofigh Hasen Nezhad Nisi (Tax Law) and Terra Rolfe (Governance, Economics and Development, LUC) published an article on this topic in Leiden Science Magazine. In…

Leiden University is well known for its student associations, which provide a great way for you to get to know your fellow students. As well as parties and social events, student associations also offer excellent sporting and cultural opportunities.

A consortium made up of Leiden University (Institute of Public Administration/Digitalisation & Public Policy, Bram Klievink, Sarah Giest, Bart Schermer), VU (Professor Fabio Massacci), TU Delft, TNO, and Thales has been awarded a NWO grant of 1.5 million euros. This research project looks into the ‘metadata…

Anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame studies how AI is changing the practice of scientific research. From astrophysics to mathematics to climate science, they find that the adoption of new AI models is raising questions about what counts as reliable scientific evidence.

Tijdens het symposium ‘Transdisciplinary Study of Just Public Algorithmic Systems’, op vrijdag 24 maart in Den Haag, staat onderzoek naar het gebruik van algoritmische systemen in de publieke sector centraal. Een actueel onderwerp dat de laatste tijd veel in de belangstelling staat. Vijf vragen over…

Computer scientist Matthijs van Leeuwen is one of four science faculty members who obtained the Senior Qualification in Education in 2021. What was that like and what drives him? ‘In my own education I would have liked to see more attention paid to the responsibility that machine learning and data mining…

Lecture, Faculty Lecture

How can you ensure that more experimental drugs reach the finish line? At the moment, only one in twenty cancer drugs that are tested on humans makes it to the market. This is an enormous loss for patients and society. With a grant from the National Growth Fund, Oncode-PACT aims to efficiently select…

Search engines are getting better at answering our questions. And chatbots are increasingly likely to search the internet for relevant sources. ‘Search engines and chatbots will become more closely entwined’, says Professor Suzan Verberne.

From deepfakes and disinformation to killer robots, surgical robots and AI lawmaking: AI (Artificial Intelligence) is changing our world. That raises the question whether this requires some form of regulation. At eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, prof. Bart Custers…

A study association is a good way to combine study-related activities with pleasure. Every faculty has one or more study association.

Conference, Book presentation

Leiden University College (LUC), an institute of Leiden University in The Hague – the international city of peace, justice, and security – offers the English-taught Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges since 2010. Inspired by the American university college model, LUC combines…