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Exhibition 'Turings Erfenis' opens doors

To honour the Alan Turing Year 2012, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam organizes the exhibition 'Turings Erfenis'. 23 June 2012 is the worldwide celebration of the famous British mathematician Alan …

Decades-old P=NP 'proof' finally refuted

The traveling salesman problem is still unresolved. A 26 year old claim for a solution is finally fully refuted by researchers of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, Université libre de …

Research on more efficient secure computation started

Researcher Ronald Cramer (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) was awarded a grant from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to improve the efficiency of ‘two-party secure computation’.

David García Soriano defends thesis on property testing

Whether they are analyzing the stock market, genes or search data, computer programs often need to process large amounts of data. Sometimes there isn't even have enough time to process all the …

European Data Forum 2012 announced

On 6 and 7 June 2012, the first European Data Forum will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark. CWI researcher Peter Boncz is one of the organizing partners through the European project Linked …

New computer techniques speed up drug research

A computer algorithm developed by bioinformaticists at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam speeds up simulations predicting the effect of drugs on the human body. This allows pharmaceutical researchers to discover …

Early genetic code very resistant to mutation

Researchers of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam show that the genetic code is remarkably resistant to DNA replication errors. This might explain the success of the common ancestor of all …