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Marc Stevens’ project awarded funding in ‘Big Data: real time ICT for logistics’ programme

NWO has granted five applications within the ‘Big Data: real time ICT for logistics’ research programme. CWI’s Marc Stevens is the main applicant of one of the ...

Experts uncover weakness in Internet security

Independent security researchers in California and researchers at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, and ...

Vici grants for Nikhil Bansal and Roeland Merks

CWI researchers Nikhil Bansal and Roeland Merks have been awarded Vici grants from NWO. With the 1.5 million euro grant, Bansal and Merks can develop their own ...

Tim Baarslag Winner of the 2017 Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award

Tim Baarslag (CWI) won the 2017 ERCIM Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award. This European prize is awarded each year to a promising young researcher of ...

Quantum Software Consortium receives 18.8 million euro in the Gravitation Programme

The Ministry for Education, Culture and Science has awarded a Gravitation grant for large-scale research on quantum software. This grant of 18.8 million euro ...

Hans van den Berg receives international Lifetime Award

Hans van den Berg has been granted the 2017 Arne Jensen Lifetime Achievement Award for his extensive, outstanding contribution to the field of performance, ...

Sung-Shik Jongmans wins IPA Dissertation Award 2016

Research school IPA awarded Sung-Shik Jongmans with the IPA Dissertation Award 2016. The jury wrote: “The thesis contains theoretical contributions, novel ...

DIS researchers receive Excellence in DASH Award at MMSys 2017

Jan Willem Kleinrouweler of CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems group has received the Excellence in DASH Award at ACM Multimedia Systems 2017 in Taipei, ...

Instable blood supply may help healthy cells compete with tumor cells

Researchers of CWI’s Scientific Computing group have found that instabilities in the blood supply in cancerous tissue can, surprisingly, lead to a less ...

DIS contributes to MPEG’s work on Point Cloud Compression

The Distributed and Interactive Systems group has been a core contributor to the effort of Moving Picture Experts Group on 3D point cloud compression ...