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Distributed and Interactive Systems group news
Jack Jansen (DIS) Awarded Best Demo Award at ACM MMsys 2020
On June 11th 2020 Jack Jansen of CWI's DIS group won the Best Demo paper Award at the ACM MMSys 2020 conference.
CWI’s DIS Group Organized the ACM CHI2020 Social VR Workshop on VR Platform during COVID-19
Jie Li and Pablo Cesar, from the Distributed Interactive Systems group (DIS) at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), have successfully organized the ACM CHI2020 Social VR Workshop on a social VR platform …
Surjya Ghosh selected to participate in the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Surjya Ghosh of CWI's DIS group has been selected to participate in the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), to be held from 19 to 24 September 2021, in Heidelberg, Germany.
DIS AT CHI 2020
Research carried out by the Distributed and Interactive Systems from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has resulted in several contributions to this year's ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
XML Prague Demo Prize for Steven Pemberton
In February Steven Pemberton won the Demo Prize at the XML Prague conference for his XForms demonstration "It's Conference Time!". XForms is a web technology and W3C standard, co-designed by Pemberton, for …
CWI Starts two projects on digital humanities: TRACTION and MediaScape
The Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has obtained two projects in the area of digital humanities, at the crossroads between human-computer interaction and humanities: MediaScape …
Pablo Cesar awarded Dutch prize for ICT research 2020
The 2020 Dutch Prize for ICT Research is to be awarded to Pablo Cesar, group leader of CWI's Distributive and Interactive Systems group (DIS).
Alina Striner (DIS) awarded Best Paper Award at ICIDS 2019
On 22 November, Alina Striner of CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group was awarded the Best Paper Award at ICIDS 2019, the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling.
