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CWI Lectures organized in honour of Lex Schrijver

To honour mathematician and Spinoza Award winner Lex Schrijver, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) organized the CWI Lectures 2013 – the 'CWI Lexures' – on Thursday 25 April in Amsterdam.

Software Development Automation Conference 2013

On 29th of May the first Dutch Conference on Software Development Automation (SDA'13) will be held at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica.

Humboldt Research Award for Peter Boncz

Peter Boncz, computer scientist and researcher from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam (CWI) has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Paul Klint speaking at 'NEMO Kinderlezing'

CWI researcher Paul Kint will be speaking on April 21 at the NEMO ‘Wakker Worden Kinderlezing’ about the creation of the first computers.

Cryptographer Ronald Cramer appointed Fellow of IACR

Ronald Cramer from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and Leiden University has been appointed Fellow of IACR.

ERCIM News on Mobile Computing published

In April ERCIM News No. 93 on Mobile Computing was published (pdf).

Michiel Helvensteijn in winning team Moving Story

Moving Story is the winning project of Startup Weekend Enschede (15-17 March 2013), a competition for startup ideas through mobile and web applications. Moving Story is a social platform for sharing stories …

New database architecture exploits power of modern network hardware

Researchers from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) challenged the common belief that network is your bottleneck in Big Data. They have developed a novel database architecture where the most relevant data flows …