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GLANCE, VIEW and FOCUS subsidy for CWI researchers
NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, has awarded subsidies to 17 computer science projects in four research programmes - CATCH, FOCUS, GLANCE and VIEW. CWI researchers participate in several projects and …
New research line life sciences for Science Park Amsterdam
The Science Park Amsterdam starts a new research line on systems biology in the life sciences. This frontier research - in which biologists, physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists collaborate - is interesting …
Eric Pauwels receives ERCIM Working Group Award
The ERCIM Working Group on Image and Video Understanding, lead by CWI researcher Eric Pauwels, received the ERCIM Working Group Award 2005 in Helsinki on May 30. "The Working Group on Video …
Launch MonetDB/XQuery
Computer scientists of the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and the Universities of Twente and Konstanz will launch MonetDB/XQuery at the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam (May 30 …
Van Dantzig Prize for Borst and Van der Laan
Sem Borst was awarded the Van Dantzig Prize on April 11, for his pioneering work in statistics and operational research. Borst, working at CWI, the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven and Bell Labs in …
Mathematicians unravel curling cords
Who does not know the phenomenon of a curling telephone cord? Until now, only closed rods were described mathematically. CWI's PhD student Bob Planqué studied the behaviour of a curling rope with …
Veni grant for fascinating quantum computing
CWI's computer scientist Ronald de Wolf can spend 200,000 euro on quantum computing research. Together with 83 young scientists he received a Veni subsidy from NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research …
Aardal appointed professor of Combinatorial Algorithmics
CWI researcher Karen Aardal has been appointed part-time professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. As of April 1, 2005, she holds the chair of Combinatorial Algorithmics at the Department of Mathematics …
