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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.

Roeland Merks appointed professor at Leiden University

As of January 15, 2014, Roeland Merks of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam was appointed Professor Multiscale Mathematical Biology at the Mathematical Institute in Leiden.

Theatre play with actors in two locations

Together with partners of the Vconect project, researchers at CWI demonstrated how group video communications can be used to enable a theatre play performed between two different locations, and experienced live by …

New models for improving service levels in large scale ICT systems

ICT systems, such as international on-line banking and social media, have evolved into global-scale service chains and have become increasingly complex.

Five articles from the Netherlands in ERCIM News 96 on Linked Open Data

ERCIM News No. 96 - with a special theme on Linked Open Data - was published online at the end of January and in print in February 2014. There were as much …