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Spring School on Social XR designated for the first time as an ACM Seasonal School
The Spring School on Social XR achieved a significant milestone: for the very first time, it has been officially recognized as an ACM Europe Seasonal School.
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Project to reduce waiting times in healthcare moves into practice
A mathematical model that reduces waiting times in elderly care by intelligently matching supply and demand will soon be tested in practice in the Amsterdam region.
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Von Engel and Franklin Prize for Ute Ebert
For her pioneering theoretical and computational work on electric discharges in gases, Ute Ebert (CWI and TU/e) has been awarded the prestigious Von Engel and Franklin Prize. She delivers her prize lecture …
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Battery sharing could cut energy costs for communities, study finds
What if neighbourhoods could lower their electricity bills without investing in expensive battery systems? An international study led by researchers at CWI suggests exactly that: by leasing capacity from large, commercially operated …
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Joakim Blikstad wins 2025 EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award
Can algorithms be both fast and simple? Joakim Blikstad has shown that they can. His PhD thesis from 2024 presented new combinatorial algorithms for solving some of the most fundamental problems in …
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Best Demo Award at CHIWORK 2025
The People’s Choice Best Demo Award at the 4th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2025) went to the demonstration titled “Dark Haptics Scenarios for Future XR Advertising.”
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CWI develops AI models inspired by the brain
How can we develop smarter AI that more closely resembles the human brain? Sanne van den Berg explored this question together with her supervisors Pieter Roelfsema and Sander Bohté in her thesis.
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CWI joins AI-driven solar energy research in HELIOS project
A collaboration between CWI and research institutes AMOLF and DIFFER has received funding from NWO-I to establish methods, techniques, and facilities that can be used to automatically design a highly efficient next-generation …
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