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Lightning produces afterglow of gamma radiation

Ionizing radiation due to lightning shines for much longer than presumed before: up to 10,000 times longer. This was demonstrated for the first time by ...

CWI and INRIA use AI to better predict harmful solar storms

Extreme solar storms can have destructive effects on communications and electrical power grids. To improve space weather forecasting systems Mandar Chandorkar ...

Stokhos and LIS GmbH sign Letter of Intent in presence of state secretary Sander Dekker

On April 24 2017 CWI spin-off Stokhos and German software company LIS Leitstellen Informations System GmbH have signed a Letter of Intent in presence of State ...

Mark Raasveldt wins Student Research Competition at SIGMOD 2018

Mark Raasveldt, PhD student at CWI’s Database Architecture (DA) group, won the Student Research Competition at the SIGMOD 2018 conference for his work titled ...

Quantum revolution at Lowlands

Quantum experts Harry Buhrman (CWI, QuSoft and UvA) and Ronald Hanson (QuTech, TU Delft) showed a glimpse of their scientific minds at the Lowlands pop ...

CRYPTO 2017 Best Paper Award for breaking SHA-1 security standard

A team of researchers from CWI and Google have won the CRYPTO 2017 Best Paper Award for being the first to break the SHA-1 internet security standard in ...

CWI and Acumex join forces on the development of online negotiation technology

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science, has agreed on a long-term research ...

Best paper award for paper co-authored by Francesca de Simone at EUSIPCO 2018

The paper "Rate Distortion Optimized Graph Partitioning for Omnidirectional Image Coding" authored by Mira Rizkallah (INRIA), Francesca De Simone (CWI), Thomas ...

Jaap Akkerhuis admitted to Internet Hall of Fame

Monday evening 18 September 2017 in Los Angeles, the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that Jaap Akkerhuis of NLnet Labs was to be admitted to the Internet ...

Weather forecast techniques help find the perfect oil drill

A new way of processing data from rock measurements could lead to a much more efficient oil extraction. During her PhD research, Sangeetika Ruchi developed a ...