News
CWI publishes news item about its research, education and the social impact of this research on a regular basis. In addition to news items, we also publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI contributing to tackling social issues.
Use of bandwidth more effective with queueing models
Bandwidth for internet traffic can be utilized more effectively with queueing models. Pascal Lieshout researched this at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. He took his PhD on Friday 5 September …
Safer cash withdrawal from ATMs with mathematics
Software faults can be expensive - for instance in automated teller machines (ATMs). Quality control should avoid such faults, but this is often a cumbersome, expensive and erroneous task. Jens Calamé from …
Smalltalk conference at CWI
SIGMA prize 2008 for DisWis
The education project DisWis won the SIGMA prize during the Lowlands festival on 16 August. After a presentation by Niels Oosterling and a short movie in which Lex Schrijver, interviewed by the …
Luque and Ebert publish on connections in lightning
In August 2008 Alejandro Luque, Ute Ebert, and Willem Hudsdorfer of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica published an article on their research into lightning in the prestigious scientific journal Physical Review Letters. …
Education project DisWis nominated for SIGMA award
The project DisWis, founded by CWI researcher Lex Schrijver and project agency De Praktijk, is nominated for the SIGMA award 2008. This annual award is meant to reward exceptional results in improving …
SIG wins ICTRegie Award
On Wednesday the Software Improvement Group (SIG) won the ICTRegie Award. The CWI spin-off SIG analyses any software source code in an automated manner. The company maps out the quality of the …
Ute Ebert in TV programme Galileo
On Tuesday 27 May 2008 TV programme Galileo airs a documentary on the effect of lightning on climate changes. Featuring CWI researcher Ute Ebert and her colleagues from the Department of Electrical …
