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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 …

Vconect project streams concert to remote audiences (video)

Together with partners of the Vconect project, researchers at CWI demonstrated how group video communications can be used to make remote audiences experience a performance as though they are actually present.

Who's afraid of Object Algebras?

Object algebras are a simple technique that solves a long-standing problem of extensibility in programming languages, called the expression problem. CWI-researcher Tijs van der Storm presented the technique at Joy of Coding …

Annual Report 2013 available

CWI in European research project precision farming

Increasingly, remote sensing data is made publicly available by organizations such as ESA and NASA. Based on these data, and in combination with other sources, new valuable applications can be created.

CWI researchers in European RETHINK big project

Every two days, we create the equivalent of all the data generated throughout human history up until 2003. The intelligent use of this data shows enormous potential for generating new knowledge and …

Four Dutch contributions to ERCIM News 97 on Cyber-Physical Systems

ERCIM News No. 97 - with a special theme on Cyber-Physical Systems - was published online on 11 April.