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Bert Gerards on Solving Rota’s Conjecture in AMS Notices

Bert Gerards (CWI), Jim Geelen (University of Waterloo, Canada) and Geoff Whittle (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) have published an article on Solving Rota’s Conjecture in the August issue of AMS …

CWI-mathematician proves: altruism does not necessarily lead to better outcomes in game theory

New mathematical research shows that consideration for others does not always lead to the best outcome - that is, when it’s applied in game theory.

W3C Benelux welcomes Logius as W3C Member

The W3C Benelux Office hosted at CWI welcomes Logius as a new W3C Member. As the first government organization in the Benelux countries, Logius joins the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on …

International innovation award to Martin Kersten

Martin Kersten, Research fellow at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) is awarded the 2014 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, the most prestigious prize for researchers who have made innovative and …

CWI researchers develop new method of computation

Catalytic memory is the new term for a method of computing whereby the computer carries out a computation using memory that it is already filled with data, returning it to its original …

Towards a European Smart Energy System

In the European vision document “Towards a European Smart Energy System”, researchers Han La Poutré and Felix Claessen from the research group Intelligent Systems at the Centrum Wiskunde & Infor

CWI improves discharge models for technical applications

Pulsed electric discharges have important applications, such as purifying polluted air in highway tunnels, disinfection and wound healing. As physical and chemical processes in pulsed discharges occur on a large variety of …

Database Indexes for the Big Data Era

Researchers of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam have developed new methods to index huge databases. These space efficient indexes are lightweight to build and maintain and grow less than linear …