CWI helps the UN filter sensitive data from its crisis platform

CWI researcher Madelon Hulsebos and masterstudent Liang Telkamp have developed a method to accurately detect sensitive information from the vast amounts of data stored on the United Nations’ Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) …

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2025 VLDB Test of Time Award for CWI researcher Peter Boncz

Peter Boncz, researcher and leader of the Database Architectures (DA) research group at CWI, and his co-authors have received the VLDB Test of Time Award 2025. They received the prize at the …

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Data systems take centre stage at CIDR 2025

The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) brought 170 international visitors to Amsterdam this year. Organized locally by our Database Architectures (DA) group, CIDR is renowned for showcasing bold ideas, novel …

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Hannes Mühleisen wins the Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2025

The Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2025 has been awarded to Hannes Mühleisen, Senior Researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud University …

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CWI's research partner Databricks raises $10 billion in landmark funding round

US-based software company and CWI research partner Databricks has raised $10 billion in one of the largest private funding rounds to date, bringing the company’s valuation to $62 billion. Databricks develops software …

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Dijkstra Fellowship for Marcin Żukowski

CWI has elected Marcin Żukowski for the 2024 Dijkstra Fellowship. With this honorary title, CWI recognizes his pioneering role in the development of database management systems that had great societal impact, and …

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NGF AiNed Fellowship for democratizing insights from structured data

Institutions lacking resources are struggling to make use of huge amounts of structured data, creating a data literacy gap and making them fall behind large corporations. Madelon Hulsebos, an incoming tenure-track researcher, …

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Fast and efficient data analysis thanks to new database architectures

CWI’s long-term software development has led to fundamentally new database architectures that have transformed a trillion-dollar global database market.

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