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Special Recognition for Sustainable Practice at ACM CHI 2024 for DIS

The Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica received special recognition for sustainable research practice [Runner-up] at this year’s ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems …

CWI research evaluated as ‘exceptionally high quality with strong societal relevance’

An international evaluation committee concludes that CWI shows scientific top leadership in many ways: CWI’s research is of exceptionally high quality with strong societal relevance.

Programming problem patched: PhD candidate discovers breakthrough in software security

By chance, computer scientist Hans-Dieter Hiep (Leiden University and CWI) discovered a ‘gaping hole’ in a widely used method for evaluating software security. Hiep patched the hole, causing quite a stir in …

Hans-Dieter Hiep (CWI and Leiden University) outside the CWI building, with a network builduing in the background.

DIS group showcases XR results in ERCIM News magazine

CWI's Distributed and Interactive Systems group showcases several of its research results in eXtended Reality (XR) in the May 2024 issue of the European ERCIM News magazine.

DIS organizes the 2nd Edition of the Spring School on Social XR

As part of the research semester program of CWI, the Distributed and Interactive Systems group (DIS) organized for the second time the Spring School on Social XR. The event took place in …

The ‘do-it-yourself’ CT scanner

Researchers developed a method to use existing X-ray imaging facilities for CT scanning.

Inaugural lecture Stacey Jeffery: 'Quantum algorithms are a (random) walk in the park'

On 17 May, Stacey Jeffery (CWI, QuSoft, UvA) holds her inaugural lecture as a professor by special appointment of Quantum Information at the University of Amsterdam on ‘Quantum algorithms are a (random) …

Stacey Jeffery, standing in front of a writing bord

DIS Researchers organize succesful Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems workshop

The workshop IMmersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE) - co-located with ACM MMSys 2024, a premier conference on multimedia systems - was successfully organized by two CWI researchers of the Distributed …