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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.

Arjen de Vries appointed professor

CWI research helps predicting limit Moore's Law

PhD for Steven de Rooij: Mathematics helps to select the best model

Best Paper Award for Interactive Television Research

The award was granted to CWI researchers.

Use of bandwidth more effective with queueing models

Bandwidth for internet traffic can be utilized more effectively with queueing models. Pascal Lieshout researched this at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. He took his PhD on Friday 5 September …

Safer cash withdrawal from ATMs with mathematics

Software faults can be expensive - for instance in automated teller machines (ATMs). Quality control should avoid such faults, but this is often a cumbersome, expensive and erroneous task. Jens Calamé from …