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Sander Bohte receives NWO grants
The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO has granted a VENI subsidy to CWI researcher Sander Bohte. Bohte will use the grant, approved in March 2003, to further his research on spiking …
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New Scientist: Software to unzip identity of unknown composers
New Scientist wrote the following text about recent research of Paul Vitányi and fellow researchers at CWI: "A standard PC file-compression program can tell the difference between classical music, jazz ad rock, …
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Lecture Edsger Dijkstra at CWI
On Tuesday, October 10, 2000, the famous Edsger Dijkstra gave a lecture at CWI, entitled: 'On avoiding avoidable case analyses'. Turing Award winner Prof. dr. Dijkstra is Professor Emeritus of the University …
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Security of E-commerce threatened by 512-bit number factorization
On 22 August 1999, a team of scientists from six different countries, led by Herman te Riele of CWI (Amsterdam), found the prime factors of a 512-bit number, whose size models 95% …
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W3C accepts New Multimedia Standard for Web Presentations
The W3C consortium has accepted a new standard for multimediapresentations on the Internet. This was announced by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium's director and inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW), in a …
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CWI Director Van Oortmerssen elected ERCIM President in 1998
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, in Bonn on 29 May 1998, CWI Director Gerard van Oortmerssen was elected ERCIM …
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