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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 …

Valedictory speech 'The Software Revolution' by Paul Klint

On 22 January 2014 Paul Klint, research fellow at CWI and professor Software Engineering at the University of Amsterdam, will retire to the position of emeritus professor. The title of his valedictory …

Researchers develop model for hollowing of blood vessels

Researchers Sonja Boas and Roeland Merks from the Life Sciences group at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, have developed a new computational model that simulates the hollowing of blood …