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Discovering Similarities by Compressing Data

CWI researcher Rudi Cilibrasi studied and extended a new method for statistical inference, based on data compression. It is based on determining the similarity between two random files by using the concept …

Open Source Release: MonetDB/XQuery Updates

CWI released a new version of its high-performance open-source XML database system MonetDB/XQuery on 3 February 2007. The main new feature of this release is support for transactional safe updating of XML …

Ute Ebert: ``No plasma in ball lightning?''

"Is there no plasma in ball lightning?" CWI researcher Ute Ebert comments recent experiments on lightning balls. These experiments were done by Antônio Pavão and Gerson Paiva of the Federal University of …

Global warming could destabilize the plankton of the oceans

Chaos among the plankton

Conviction by numbers: Grünwald and Gill criticize statistics Lucia de B in Nature

Peter Grünwald of the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and Richard Gill of the Universiteit Leiden criticize the statistics used in the trial of nurse and alleged 'serial killer' …

New Dutch train timetable made more robust with help of CWI

The 2007 Dutch train timetable, which started on 10 December 2006, has been made more robust with help of CWI researcher Lex Schrijver and programmer Adri Steenbeek. This was pointed out by …

Tuesday November 28: Research Vox Populi on Noorderlicht Radio

Stefano Bocconi (PhD defense November 30 at TU/e) will be interviewed by Noorderlicht Radio on Tuesday November 28 2006. He will talk about the Vox Populi system which automatically generates video documentaries …

Amsterdam Researchers Win International Semantic Web Challenge

The MultimediaN E-culture Project has won the first prize at the Semantic Web Challenge at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference held in Athens, Georgia, USA. This international competition aims to advance …