News

News about CWI research, education and the social impact of this research.

Share this page

In addition to news items, we also publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI contributing to tackling social issues.
Questions about our research or our institute? Media can contact our Communication department.
Our CWI in the media page features a selection of CWI appearances in prominent media channels, both national and international.

Mathematics for money and games for maths teachers

Could the performance and development of a football player be calculated with mathematics? Does a fair electoral system exist for a democracy? Which games could be solved with group theory? These and …

Ingres and CWI spin-off VectorWise announce dramatic database performance improvement

Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company, announced on 29th July the Ingres VectorWise project. This is a collaboration between Ingres, VectorWise - a spin-off company from the leading database …

D. Wojtczak receives Best paper award at ICALP 2009

Following the decision of the programme committee of ICALP 2009 Track B, Dominik Wojtczak (a former PhD student at University of Edinburgh, currently a postdoc at CWI) together with Michael Ummels (PhD …

Lynda Hardman appointed distinguished professor Multimedia Interaction

Lynda Hardman is appointed distinguished professor Multimedia Interaction.

Rascal for Easy Meta-Programming

Rascal is a new meta-programming language that was launched by CWI at the Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering, 6-11 July, in Braga, Portugal.

CWI database team wins Best Paper Runner Up at SIGMOD 2009

The database team of CWI received the SIGMOD Best Paper Award Runner Up on July 1, during the 35th SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD'09) in Providence, Rhode Island …

Software agents arrange freight more efficiently

Traffic jams regularly bring Dutch highways to a halt. Freight is often a major cause of such bottlenecks. Interestingly enough almost one third of all trucks drive around empty. PhD student Valentin …