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Innovative CWI research wins Free Competition

Two CWI research proposals have received money in the Free Competition 2008 of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) division for Exact Sciences. From 58 entries the research of Bert Gerards …

Experts uncover weakness in Internet security

Independent security researchers in California and researchers at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands have found a …

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 …

Leen Stougie appointed full Professor

Leen Stougie was appointed full Professor Operations Research at the VU.

Thick sparks flash faster than thin ones

Thick sparks flash faster through the air than thin ones - at least, when positive discharges are concerned.

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).

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 …

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.