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Award for thesis on biased book recommendation systems

Julia Sudnik won the Amsterdam Data Science thesis award. She did an internship at CWI on ‘The effect of feedback loops on fairness in rankings from recommendation systems’.

ADS Data & Drinks on Machine Learning and MotherDuck

You are cordially invited to a free “Drinks & Data” meetup (organised by CWI and ADS) with three prominent speakers from the CIDR2023 conference.

Marten van Dijk appointed as endowed professor at VU Amsterdam

The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Executive Board has appointed Marten van Dijk (CWI) as endowed professor in Secure and Intelligent Computing, effective from 8 November 2022.

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DIS group contributes to book on Immersive Video Technologies

The book Immersive Video Technologies offers a comprehensive overview of the leading technologies enabling visual immersion, including omnidirectional (360 degrees) video, light fields, and volumetric video.

Launch of EQSI-European Quantum Software Institute in Paris

On 8 November 2022, the EQSI–European Quantum Software Institute was launched with a stakeholder event in Paris. One of the founding members is QuSoft director Harry Buhrman (QuSOft, CWI & UvA).

Four quantum information pioneers speaking at QuSoft event at CWI

On 11 November, celebrated quantum information scientists Charlie Bennett and Gilles Brassard gave a lecture at QuSoft at CWI, being awarded the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. As a surprise, other …

CWI spin-off DuckDB Labs partners with MotherDuck, who raises $47.5 million

CWI spin-off company DuckDB Labs helped create startup MotherDuck, which aims to connect DuckDB to the cloud. MotherDuck managed to raise $47.5 million, they announced this week.

CWI researchers win Best Paper Award at SPIRE 2022

Wiktor Zuba, Solon Pissis and 4 co-authors were awarded the Best Paper Award of SPIRE 2022 for their paper ‘Subsequence Covers of Words’. Their research has potential applications in bioinformatics and data …