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Better image quality for virtual reality with computer science

Less image delays, less 'image echoes' and more fluid movements in virtual reality (VR): this is all possible with the research of Ferdi Smit of the Centrum ...

New book published from Pablo Cesar: The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward Interactivity

TV viewing has undergone a tremendous change during the past twenty years. Originally, TV viewing was a social activity, fostering social interaction with ...

CWI plays leading role in research programme NCSB

The Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology (NCSB) officially started its research program on 15 October.

New simulations explain huge lightning flashes

With new simulations Alejandro Luque and Ute Ebert (CWI) explained huge lightning flashes above clouds: sprites. They published their results in Nature ...

Mathematics for Dry Feet

On September 1st Joris Bierkens joined the Center of Mathematics & Computer Science (CWI) as an assistant in the Deltares funded project 'Mathematics for Dike ...

Jan H. van Schuppen Appointed as Full Professor TU Delft

Starting from 1 September 2009 Jan H. van Schuppen (CWI) has been appointed as professor Mathematical System Theory at the Department of Mathematics of the ...

VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award for hardware-aware database technology

Researchers Peter Boncz, Stefan Manegold, and Martin Kersten of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam won the prestigious VLDB 10-year Best ...

Ingres and CWI spin-off VectorWise announce dramatic database performance improvement

Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company, announced on 29th July the Ingres VectorWise project. This is a collaboration between ...