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PhD defence Jarek Byrka

How could two banks be merged efficiently? Which offices should close and which not? Where should people build new energy plants? To answer these kinds of questions Jarek Byrka (CWI) studied mathematical …

Best Paper Award for SMIL State research

At the ACM DocEngineering Symposium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jack Jansen and Dick Bulterman received the Best Paper Award.

Higher quality of web services appreciated

The research project Service Optimization and Quality (SEQUAL) that starts in October, came first in the IOP Generic Communication funding programme of Senternovem.

Van Oortmerssen compliments CWI in weblog

"Marvellous to see how practical fundamental research can be", Gerard van Oortmerssen, director ICTRegie, compliments the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in his weblog.

New spin-off MonetDB B.V.

To stimulate commercial applications and to disseminate scientific research, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam founded MonetDB B.V. in 2008. In 2024 the MonetDB Foundation was launched.