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Researchers predict sprites on Venus, Saturn and Jupiter

Jan van Eijck appointed professor at ILLC

Jan van Eijck has been appointed professor of Computational Semantics at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)

Secure positioning: impossible or possible?

CWI starts research on efficiency ambulance services

Royal Decoration for Former CWI Director Jan Karel Lenstra

Better QoS for distributed software with stochastic and formal methods

Reusability of software is a hot topic nowadays. It is easier, cheaper and more efficient to reuse parts of existing software in order to adjust or incorporate new functionalities, than to design …

Grothendieck applied to entanglement and optimization

Jop Briët, researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, introduces in his thesis new variations of Grothendieck’s inequality. He applied them to entanglement, an aspect of quantum mechanics, and …

IBM Scientific Award 2010 awarded to Alexandra Silva

The IBM Scientific Prize 2010 was presented on 18 October 2011 to Alexandra Silva, for her PhD research at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam.