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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.

Better image quality for virtual reality with computer science

Less image delays, less 'image echoes' and more fluid movements in virtual reality (VR): this is all possible with the research of Ferdi Smit of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the …

New book published from Pablo Cesar: The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward Interactivity

TV viewing has undergone a tremendous change during the past twenty years. Originally, TV viewing was a social activity, fostering social interaction with communities of viewers. A host of technical developments has …

Rapport rekenonderwijs aangeboden aan staatssecretaris Dijksma

Foto: Jan Karel Lenstra (directeur Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica), voorzitter van de Commissie Rekenonderwijs Basisschool.

CWI plays leading role in research programme NCSB

The Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology (NCSB) officially started its research program on 15 October.

New simulations explain huge lightning flashes

With new simulations Alejandro Luque and Ute Ebert (CWI) explained huge lightning flashes above clouds: sprites. They published their results in Nature Geoscience, which appeared online on 25 October 2009.