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Karen Aardal to TU Delft
As of 1 September Karen Aardal is full Professor Optimization at the Delft University of Technology and becomes head of the Optimization and Systems Theory group. The four preceding years Aardal was …
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Leen Stougie appointed full Professor
Leen Stougie was appointed full Professor Operations Research at the VU.
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Thick sparks flash faster than thin ones
Thick sparks flash faster through the air than thin ones - at least, when positive discharges are concerned.
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CWI Researchers Improve Multimedia Language SMIL
On 1 December 2008 the multimedia language SMIL3.0 was announced as W3C Recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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Big Brother protects animal kingdom
How can we apply computers, cameras and the internet to effectively guard biodiversity? This question is one of the topics during the workshop ‘Distributed Sensing and Collective Intelligence in Biodiversity Monitoring' organized …
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CWI answers the most intriguing ‘Quest reader’s question’
"How many people were ever born on earth?", a reader asked the magazine Quest. On request CWI researcher Peter Grunwald made an estimate of 107.5 billion.
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ArchiMate team wins NAF Architecture prize
The Telematica Instituut announced that the Dutch Architecture Forum for the digital world awarded a prize to the ArchiMate team on 26 November. CWI researchers Frank de Boer and Farhad Arbab are …
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Peter Grünwald appointed Professor in Leiden
As of 1 November, CWI researcher Peter Grünwald has been appointed Professor Statistical Learning at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University.
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