CWI News

CWI and NWO present the book 'Omringd door informatica'
10-03-2010
Jason Frank appointed professor at the University of Amsterdam
05-03-2010
Researchers join forces to develop new methods against side-channel attacks
16-02-2010
Model developed for cost efficient production of multimedia documents
08-02-2010
Vici grant for Peter Grünwald
03-02-2010
Mathematicians figure out maximum capacity of solar energy pro household
01-02-2010
New methods developed for interactive 3D measurements of objects
25-01-2010
Jeroen Hazewinkel wins prize for best presentation
15-01-2010
New record decomposition into prime numbers demonstrates vulnerability of important cryptographic keys
08-01-2010
VIDI grant for Frank Vallentin
06-01-2010
Dik Winter
02-01-2010
EIT ICT Labs wins prestigious European race for excellence in innovation
17-12-2009
Monique Laurent appointed professor at Tilburg University
11-12-2009
Improved lower bounds for chromatic number
11-12-2009
Large STW grant for CWI research on discharges
09-12-2009
Mathematics helps improving biological models
07-12-2009
More insight in complex phenomena with new methods from CWI researcher Lorenzo Sella
30-11-2009
Best Paper Award for Peter Bosman
24-11-2009
In Memoriam Ben Sommeijer
23-11-2009
Better image quality for virtual reality with computer science
19-11-2009
Better image quality for virtual reality with computer science
18-11-2009
New book published from Pablo Cesar: The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward Interactivity
05-11-2009
CWI plays leading role in research programme NCSB
04-11-2009
New simulations explain huge lightning flashes
26-10-2009
Mathematics for Dry Feet
08-10-2009
Jan H. van Schuppen Appointed as Full Professor TU Delft
21-09-2009
New array database technology for scientists
16-09-2009
Faster database technology with MonetDB/X100
08-09-2009
VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award for hardware-aware database technology
28-08-2009
Mathematics for money and games for maths teachers
21-08-2009
Ingres and CWI spin-off VectorWise announce dramatic database performance improvement
29-07-2009
D. Wojtczak receives Best paper award at ICALP 2009
22-07-2009
Lynda Hardman appointed distinguished professor Multimedia Interaction
22-07-2009
Rascal for Easy Meta-Programming
06-07-2009
CWI database team wins Best Paper Runner Up at SIGMOD 2009
01-07-2009
Software agents arrange freight more efficiently
01-07-2009
French-Dutch IT co-operation started with ATEAMS project
26-06-2009
New chair of the governing board Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
16-06-2009
Mathematics makes wireless networks more efficient
15-06-2009
Automatic extension database systems with new Armada Model
10-06-2009
Turing Award winner Richard Karp speaking at CWI
05-06-2009
New Google service 'Rich Snippets' based CWI-technology
22-05-2009
AT5 television at CWI: 'Shorter waiting times with mathematics'
08-05-2009
Willem Hundsdorfer appointed professor of Numerical Mathematics
04-05-2009
New mechanism for Internet security wins Best Paper Award
29-04-2009
Shorter waiting times with new mathematics
27-04-2009
Fighting Lymph Cancer with Mathematics
20-04-2009
Maths for pattern formation
09-04-2009
Grant for advanced database research
09-04-2009
CWI print shop moved
08-04-2009
Safe electronic communication without keys
27-03-2009
Changes to bus services and ring road at Science Park Amsterdam
25-03-2009
Faster biomedical image processing with CWI research
02-03-2009
Astefanoaei wins Best Paper Award
04-02-2009
A step towards understanding X-rays from lightning
29-01-2009
ACM CHI Lifetime Service Award for Steven Pemberton
27-01-2009
Bert Zwart appointed full professor at VU University Amsterdam
26-01-2009
Intelligent systems for green developments
22-01-2009
Trust4All awarded with bronze Achievement Award
19-01-2009
Innovative CWI research wins Free Competition
12-01-2009
Experts uncover weakness in Internet security
30-12-2008
Karen Aardal to TU Delft
23-12-2008
Leen Stougie appointed full Professor Operations Research
15-12-2008
Thick sparks flash faster than thin ones
05-12-2008
CWI Researchers Improve Multimedia Language SMIL
02-12-2008
Big Brother protects animal kingdom
28-11-2008
CWI answers the most intriguing ‘Quest reader’s question’
27-11-2008
ArchiMate team wins NAF Architecture prize
27-11-2008
Peter Grünwald appointed Professor in Leiden
25-11-2008
Twenty years of internet in Europe
14-11-2008
Industry benefits from modelling
13-11-2008
Best Paper Award for Intelligent Interfaces
31-10-2008
CWI research in popular NWO book
28-10-2008
CWI mathematician Bert Zwart receives Erlang Prize
23-10-2008
Safe cracked during open door day
20-10-2008
PhD defence Jarek Byrka
13-10-2008
Best Paper Award for SMIL State research
22-09-2008
Higher quality of web services appreciated
21-09-2008
Van Oortmerssen compliments CWI in weblog
20-09-2008
New spin-off MonetDB B.V.
16-09-2008
Arjen de Vries appointed professor
14-09-2008
CWI research helps predicting limit Moore's Law
11-09-2008
PhD for Steven de Rooij: Mathematics helps to select the best model
08-09-2008
Best Paper Award for Interactive Television Research
05-09-2008
New website
01-09-2008
Use of bandwidth more effective with queueing models
29-08-2008
Safer cash withdrawal from ATMs with mathematics
29-08-2008
Smalltalk conference at CWI
25-08-2008
SIGMA prize 2008 for DisWis
19-08-2008
Luque and Ebert publish on connections in lightning
18-08-2008
Education project DisWis nominated for SIGMA award
26-06-2008
SIG wins ICTRegie Award
28-05-2008
Ute Ebert in TV programme Galileo
27-05-2008
Jeroen Wackers wins Best PhD Thesis of 2007
16-05-2008
CWI and Leiden University sign cooperation agreement
13-05-2008
CWI coordinates project about control for coordination
29-04-2008
At CWI developed timetable awarded
17-04-2008
CWI and Leiden University sign cooperation agreement
11-04-2008
Opgelost nominated for best popular science book 2008
10-04-2008
Approximating the Stability Number and the Chromatic Number of a Graph via Semidefinite Programming
10-04-2008
Krzysztof R. Apt appointed CWI Fellow
03-04-2008
Crosscutting Concerns in Embedded Software Systems
25-03-2008
Barry Koren appointed professor of Numerical Mathematics
13-03-2008
Dick C.A. Bulterman appointed professor of Distributed Multimedia Languages and Infrastructures
10-03-2008
Cryptography in a quantum world
06-03-2008
Frank de Boer appointed professor of Software Correctness
29-02-2008
Bert Gerards appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada
19-02-2008
Keeping fairness alive. Design and format verification of optimistic fair exchange protocols
19-02-2008
CWI: Work in progress
14-02-2008
CWI Internships programme
09-02-2008
Multirate numerical integration of ordinary differential equations
16-01-2008
Microsoft Research "Beyond Search" Award for CWI research in sponsored search auctions
21-12-2007
Ronald Cramer gives inaugural lecture Leiden University
20-12-2007
PlayStation 3 used to predict next US president
07-12-2007
Successful Start for CWI's New Building
21-11-2007
Solving financial problems efficiently - Oosterlee appointed professor
20-11-2007
Better automatic updates for component-based software
16-11-2007
PhD with honours for Jeroen Wackers
08-11-2007
Petition for immediate reopening case Lucia de B.
02-11-2007
CWI spin-off Software Improvement Group wins national Innovator Award 2007
25-10-2007
Prize winners Icy Contest
24-10-2007
Science Day CWI a succes
23-10-2007
Workshop 'Streamers, sprites, leaders, lightning'
05-10-2007
Safe and efficient software for elevators
27-09-2007
Royal honour for Paul Vitányi
11-09-2007
"Meesterlijk complex" - Paul Vitányi in NRC Handelsblad
10-09-2007
Python designer Van Rossum (Google) at CWI
26-06-2007
Software debate in Tweede Kamer
13-06-2007
Future Interactive TV visible at EuroITV 2007
16-05-2007
Limits of quantum computing: CWI in Nature Physics
13-04-2007
Best Student Paper Award at ECIR, April 2-5 2007, Rome
06-04-2007
Discovering Similarities by Compressing Data
09-02-2007
Open Source Release: MonetDB/XQuery Updates
05-02-2007
Ute Ebert: ``No plasma in ball lightning?''
31-01-2007
Global warming could destabilize the plankton of the oceans
19-01-2007
Conviction by numbers: Grünwald and Gill criticize statistics Lucia de B in Nature
19-01-2007
New Dutch train timetable made more robust with help of CWI
24-12-2006
Tuesday November 28: Research Vox Populi on Noorderlicht Radio
24-11-2006
Amsterdam Researchers Win International Semantic Web Challenge
20-11-2006
Kuhn Award for Leen Stougie
16-11-2006
New BRICKS website online
04-10-2006
New upper bounds for kissing in higher dimensions
02-10-2006
Jan van Eijck appointed NIAS Fellow
08-09-2006
Gödel Prize winner Saxena appointed at CWI
01-09-2006
Better internet connections possible by means of formal methods
18-08-2006
Dion Gijswijt nominated for prestigious Tucker Prize
03-08-2006
Invited lecture Bert Gerards at ICM 2006
26-07-2006
FOCUS and GLANCE subsidy for CWI
13-07-2006
Ute Ebert member of Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
12-07-2006
Peter Boncz wins ICTRegie Award 2006
17-05-2006
Mathematics of swimming bacteria - lecture Jens Timmer at CWI
16-05-2006
Fokker F27 Friendship wins 2006 Best Dutch Design Election
12-05-2006
Krzysztof Apt elected as Member of the Academia Europaea
01-05-2006
First .nl domain cwi.nl celebrates 20th anniversary
21-04-2006
Better train planning with mathematical models
12-04-2006
Peter Boncz nominated for ICTRegie Award 2006
11-04-2006
Mathematics to reveal atomic structure wins first Philips Mathematics Prize
30-03-2006
CWI rated 'excellent' in evaluation
15-02-2006
Jan Karel Lenstra: 'We need a Minister for Science and Technology'
13-02-2006
First Van Wijngaarden Awards for Lynch and Diaconis
10-02-2006
Amsterdam scientists in Nature: Global warming could destabilize plankton
19-01-2006
CWI contributes to SMIL 2.1 W3C Recommendation
22-12-2005
Veni-grant for quantum security researcher Serge Fehr
20-12-2005
Computer scientist investigates sparks with 'virtual microscope'
16-12-2005
NWO Spinoza Prize 2005 for Alexander Schrijver
24-11-2005
Mathematician simulates axon development
18-11-2005
Better methods to guarantee software quality
05-11-2005
TT-Medal Project wins ITEA Achievement Award 2005
26-10-2005
E-Quality expertise centre for quality of ICT services
05-10-2005
Royal honour for Lex Schrijver
25-09-2005
Joost N. Kok new Board Member Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
03-08-2005
Kick-off expertise centre E-Quality on September 30
20-07-2005
GLANCE, VIEW and FOCUS subsidy for CWI researchers
17-07-2005
New research line life sciences for Science Park Amsterdam
13-07-2005
Eric Pauwels receives ERCIM Working Group Award
02-06-2005
Launch MonetDB/XQuery
19-05-2005
Van Dantzig Prize for Borst and Van der Laan
14-04-2005
Veni grant for fascinating quantum computing
12-04-2005
Mathematicians unravel curling cords
12-04-2005
Aardal appointed professor of Combinatorial Algorithmics
10-04-2005
Longer economic lifetime for software
25-02-2005
Google teaches computers the meaning of words
03-02-2005
Onno Boxma scientific director EURANDOM
24-01-2005
PhDs for image retrieval, modelling gas discharges and constraint programming
16-12-2004
CWI researcher wins Bakkenist Prize for Computer Science
16-12-2004
CWI researcher combines techniques for faster computations
06-12-2004
Ronald Cramer joins Young Academy of Arts and Sciences
01-12-2004
Mathematical techniques improve software quality
01-12-2004
Lex Schrijver wins Lanchester Prize
24-10-2004
Evolution in computer improves decision-making
29-09-2004
CWI pays tribute to internet pioneer Piet Beertema
19-09-2004
Van Liere appointed professor of virtual reality
01-09-2004
Arjen Doelman new theme leader MAS1
01-09-2004
Two Vidi grants for CWI researchers
31-08-2004
Professorship for Farhad Arbab
30-07-2004
Mark Peletier starts as Professor in Eindhoven
30-07-2004
CWI starts research on Cryptology and Information Security
29-07-2004
Ronald Cramer appointed Professor
29-07-2004
Computer assists in cancer detection
27-07-2004
VENI grant for Harry van Zanten
22-07-2004
AI in optimization: TALENT stipendium for Jano van Hemert
05-07-2004
Agents increase the potential of e-commerce
05-07-2004
W3C Benelux and ISOC Belgium spread open internet standards
14-06-2004
Prominent software historian visits CWI
07-06-2004
Martin Kersten advisor Philips Research
29-04-2004
BRICKS launched
16-04-2004
Cor Baayen nominated as honorary member KWG
22-03-2004
Andrew Tanenbaum elected Akademiehoogleraar
01-03-2004
Ute Ebert wins Minerva Prize
25-02-2004
NWO funds CWI projects on computational life science
14-01-2004
Arie van Deursen appointed professor
13-01-2004
CWI co-hosts SIGIR 2007
08-01-2004
Harry Buhrman wins VICI grant
06-01-2004
CWI contributes to crack RSA-576
24-12-2003
Funding for software testing project TT-MEDAL
24-12-2003
Program recognizes patterns without prior knowledge
11-12-2003
BSIK funding for CWI projects
01-12-2003
Successful editions CWI in Bedrijf & Open Day Sciencepark Amsterdam
25-11-2003
CWI identifies causes of congestion in communication networks
23-11-2003
Fifteen years Internet in Europe
17-11-2003
VIDI grant for Mark Peletier
14-11-2003
Image processing reveals both large objects and details
14-11-2003
Ronald de Wolf first Dutch winner Cor Baayen Award
06-11-2003
CWI contributes to next generation web forms
20-10-2003
CWI builds new supercomputer
20-10-2003
Members of Parliament visit CWI
17-10-2003
INRIA and CWI launch VLTS benchmark website
14-10-2003
CWI-graduate Jeroen Wackers receives award
10-10-2003
Science, games and theory at CWI
20-09-2003
Prestigious prizes awarded to Lex Schrijver and Bert Gerards
20-08-2003
Enabling more effective multimedia search queries
11-08-2003
Willem Hundsdorfer wins Peterich Prize
30-07-2003
Appointment Rob van de Berg
06-07-2003
Jan Willem Klop new KNAW member
20-05-2003
Farewell Gerard van Oortmerssen
16-05-2003
Sander Bohte receives NWO grants
14-05-2003
New Scientist: Software to unzip identity of unknown composers
10-04-2003
Mathematics of influenza
11-01-2003
CWI's mail protection measures
13-09-2001
Lecture Edsger Dijkstra at CWI
05-10-2000
Security of E-commerce threatened by 512-bit number factorization
26-08-1999
W3C accepts New Multimedia Standard for Web Presentations
16-06-1998
CWI Director Van Oortmerssen elected ERCIM President
30-05-1998