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NWO VIDI grant for Felix Lucka

X-ray Computed Tomography and AI team up to reveal fast dynamic processes.

New ICAI Lab 'Explainable AI for health'

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have joined forces in the ICAI* Lab 'Explainable AI for Health'. Together they will develop new forms of artificial intelligence …

First Quantum Delta NL Award for Stacey Jeffery and Julia Cramer

The first ever Quantum Delta NL Award was won by Stacey Jeffery (CWI and QuSoft) and Julia Cramer (Leiden University) for founding and developing WIQD - Women In Quantum Development.

Event on Singapore & the Netherlands: Trust Technologies

The Netherlands Innovation Network (NIN) at the Dutch embassy in Singapore is exploring the possibility of a mission to Singapore in the field of Trust Technologies, 17 – 21 October. On 8 …

'Singapore & the Netherlands: Trust Technologies' event, 8 June 2023 at CWI

Consortium to improve cyber-physical systems starts

Recently, the NWO KIC project ‘REGENERATE’ started. Within this public-private partnership (PPP), knowledge institutions and industrial partners are working on reliable high-tech motion systems, like lithography machines to make computer chips.

Clean room with wafer machines for chip production. Picture: Shutterstock

How to make cryptographic techniques more efficient

Transferring money or sending other sensitive information online: with cryptography, your data does not fall into the wrong hands. Thomas Attema developed a new technique to make data encryption even more efficient.

Towards no more glass in the jam with better X-ray scanners

X-ray and CT scanners are widely used devices in research, diagnostics and the industrial sector. And yet they are not nearly as fast and accurate as we would like. Mathé Zeegers is …

DIS organizes the Spring School on Social XR

As part of the research semester programme of CWI, the Distributed and Interactive Systems group (DIS) organized the Spring School on Social XR.