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Automatic extension database systems with new Armada Model

Databases are getting bigger and bigger: an increase of data in the order of gigabytes or even terabytes is not unusual anymore. What to do if a database no longer fits on …

Turing Award winner Richard Karp speaking at CWI

On June 4 Turing Award winner Richard Karp (USA) spoke at the CWI on his recent research and his vision n the computational biology. He lectured during the annual CWI Lectures in …

New Google service 'Rich Snippets' based CWI-technology

Google introduced a new enhancement called Rich Snippets in May 2009, giving searchers new ways to filter results and adding new types of data to the search results themselves. The feature is …

AT5 television at CWI: 'Shorter waiting times with mathematics'

Television channel AT5 interviewed Wemke van der Weij (CWI) on 6 May about her PhD research at CWI: 'Shorter waiting times with mathematics'. Watch the dutch movie (from the AT5 website):

Willem Hundsdorfer appointed professor of Numerical Mathematics

CWI researcher Willem Hundsdorfer has been appointed part-time professor at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. As of May 1, 2009, he holds the chair of Numerical Mathematics at the Faculty of Physics, …