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EIT ICT Labs wins prestigious European race for excellence in innovation

Turn Europe into the global leader in ICT innovation – this is the mission for the new Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) just selected in tough competition by the European Institute of …

Monique Laurent appointed professor at Tilburg University

Monique Laurent of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has been appointed professor of Combinatorial Optimization at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Tilburg University.

Improved lower bounds for chromatic number

Researcher Fernando de Oliveira Filho of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam improved the lower bounds on the chromatic number. He received his PhD degree on December 1 for his …

Large STW grant for CWI research on discharges

In November, Ute Ebert (CWI) received a large STW grant for three research projects on discharges. These projects are about X-rays and gamma radiation from lightning, air purification with discharges for highway …

Mathematics helps improving biological models

Many phenomena in life sciences, economics, physics and engineering can be described with mathematical models called rational systems. PhD student Jana Nĕmcová of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam contributed …

More insight in complex phenomena with new methods from CWI researcher Lorenzo Sella

Many natural processes and even modern human-designed systems exhibit very complicated behaviour. Lorenzo Sella of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has developed new methods to obtain a better understanding of these.

Best Paper Award for Peter Bosman

24 November 2009 At the BNAIC 2009, the annual Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Peter Bosman

In Memoriam Ben Sommeijer

Researcher Ben Sommeijer of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research centre for mathematics and computer science in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, passed away on November 19, 2009.