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Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) is the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands. We conduct pioneering research in these fields and transfer our results to society.

To give focus to our efforts, we concentrate on five broad, societally-relevant themes:

Sharing Knowledge

Mathematics and computer science research are the invisible driving forces behind innovation. CWI contributes by:

cooperating with industrial partners
starting spin-off companies
developing innovative software tools
contributing to international standards

The institute also plays a central role in several (inter)national programs and organizations.

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Theatre play with actors in two locations

Together with partners of the Vconect project, researchers at CWI demonstrated how group video communications can be used to enable a theatre play performed between two different locations, and experienced live by a remote audience over super-fast broadband.

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