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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 …

Longer economic lifetime for software

Programming in a new way lengthens the economic lifetime for software, CWI researcher Arie van Deursen said during his inaugural speech as software engineering professor at the Technische Universiteit Delft on February …