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CWI publishes news item about its research, education and the social impact of this research on a regular basis. In addition to news items, we also publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI contributing to tackling social issues.
CWI co-hosts SIGIR 2007
The Netherlands have been selected to host SIGIR 2007. SIGIR is the major international conference on information retrieval. The annual event of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval of the Association …
Harry Buhrman wins VICI grant
In 2003, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a VICI grant to CWI researcher Harry Buhrman for his research on quantum computing. Normal 'classical' computers use memory bits that …
CWI contributes to crack RSA-576
An international team of mathematicians and computer scientists including two CWI researchers has found the two prime factors of a specially prepared encryption testing number called RSA-576, a number of 576 bits …
Funding for software testing project TT-MEDAL
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs has allocated funding to the software test development project TT-MEDAL. This was announced on November 12, 2003. TT-MEDAL is a cooperation of CWI's Specification and Analysis …
Program recognizes patterns without prior knowledge
Identifying unknown composers, automatically recognizing languages, finding the origin of new strains of viruses. These are just a few examples of the many possibilities of the CompLearn Toolkit, a compression based pattern …
BSIK funding for CWI projects
The Dutch government has allocated 12 million euros to the BRICKS project as a part of the BSIK investment program. The Ministry of Economic Affairs announced this on November 28, 2003. BRICKS …
Successful editions CWI in Bedrijf & Open Day Sciencepark Amsterdam
The 2003 edition of CWI's business day CWI in Bedrijf on October, 17 featured a novelty: Erik Huizer of NOB Cross Media Facilities demonstrated the set top box that will be used …
CWI identifies causes of congestion in communication networks
CWI's Ph.D. student Miranda van Uitert has identified a number of causes of congestion in Generalized Processor Sharing (GPS) communication networks. GPS is a technique to schedule incoming network traffic at switches. …
