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Arnold Smeulders member of Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities

Arnold Smeulders (COMMIT/, UvA and CWI) has been invited to become a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences

CWI and MonetDB in Big Data research project

Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) has received a grant award from NWO for a joint proposal with Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), CWI spin-off MonetDB (Amsterdam), Tata Steel (IJmuiden) and …

CWI pioneer in implementing DNSSEC at Science Park

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has played a leading role in the implementation of DNSSEC at the Amsterdam Science Park. The project was a joint initiative from CWI, AMOLF and Nikhef.

Honorable mention Arnoud den Boer

Arnoud den Boer, former PhD student at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam) has received an honorable mention from the jury of the VVS/OR van Zwet Award for his thesis …

CWI congratulates Web and W3C with their anniversaries

"Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam congratulates the Web with its 25th anniversary and the World Wide Web Consortium with its 20 years jubilee.

Oud-MC-onderzoeker en schrijver Hugo Brandt Corstius overleden

Schrijver, columnist en voormalig MC/CWI-onderzoeker Hugo Brandt Corstius is op 28 februari 2014 op 78-jarige leeftijd overleden.

Mathematician John Norman Mather receives Brouwer Medal 2014

The Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (KWG) awards the Brouwer Medal 2014 to American mathematician John N. Mather (1942) from Princeton University. The medal is awarded only once every three years to a …

CWI becomes .nl-registrar

On 18 February 2014, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, became a .nl registrar.