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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.

Veni grant for research in phylogenetic networks

The Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Leo van Iersel of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam a Veni grant for his project “Bringing phylogenetic networks to life”. …

Cor Baayen Award 2011 for Stratos Idreos and Luca Mottola

This year, ERCIM – the European Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics – has exceptionally selected two winners for the Cor Baayen Award: Stratos Idreos, researcher in the Database Architectures group of the …

Jan Karel Lenstra appointed CWI Fellow

Open Dag Science Park Amsterdam 8 oktober 2011

Op 8 oktober stelt Science Park Amsterdam haar deuren open voor het publiek. De jaarlijkse open dag van Science Park Amsterdam is dé gelegenheid om een kijkje te nemen achter de schermen …

CWI core partner EIT ICT Labs

The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has been granted the status of core partner in EIT ICT Labs, the European consortium of top research institutes and leading industry partners that …