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Paper on memory security wins HPCA 2025 Test of Time Award
Over two decades after its publication, the paper "Caches and Hash Trees for Efficient Memory Integrity Verification" has been awarded the Test of Time Award at the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on …
Marten van Dijk: mathematician in computer security
After having spent almost twenty years as a researcher in the United States, in 2020, Marten van Dijk returned to the Netherlands to found and lead the Computer Security group at CWI …
Programming problem patched: PhD candidate discovers breakthrough in software security
By chance, computer scientist Hans-Dieter Hiep (Leiden University and CWI) discovered a ‘gaping hole’ in a widely used method for evaluating software security. Hiep patched the hole, causing quite a stir in …
NWO Gravitation: 21.5 million euros for 'Challenges in Cyber Security'
'Challenges in Cyber Security' is one of seven research projects that received an NWO Gravitation grant this year. The project has the impressive sum of 21.5 million euros attached. Among the scientists …
Marten van Dijk and co-authors win ACM CCS 2023 Test of Time Award
Marten van Dijk and his co-authors won the ACM CCS 2023 Test of Time Award for their research on Path ORAM – an algorithm to prevent adversaries from using access patterns to …
Google award for discovering bug in Java library
CWI researchers received a prize from Google for discovering an overflow bug in Java’s standard software library, the LinkedList bug. They prevented a possibility for hackers to make unsafe connections via Java.
![Hans-Dieter Hiep (CSY, Leiden University) in a work meeting. Picture: CWI. [NB Please keep focal area]](/images/43548/CWI_Algemeen_20_10_04-063.190b82dc.fill-427x427.jpg)
Marten van Dijk wins IEEE CS Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award
For his contributions to oblivious and encrypted computation Marten van Dijk won the 2023 IEEE CS Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award.
Marten van Dijk appointed as endowed professor at VU Amsterdam
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Executive Board has appointed Marten van Dijk (CWI) as endowed professor in Secure and Intelligent Computing, effective from 8 November 2022.
