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Prestigious Gödel Prize for Ronald de Wolf

Ronald de Wolf and his co-authors receive the 2023 Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science. The other winner of the 2023 Gödel Prize is Thomas Rothvoss.

DIS group at Point Cloud Visual Quality Assessment Grand Challenge

The Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from CWI participated in the competitive Grand Challenge “Point Cloud Visual Quality Assessment” from the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP).

CWI researcher Tim Baarslag selected as Heidelberg Laureate Forum alumnus

CWI researcher Tim Baarslag has been selected to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) for the second time. This annual scientific event brings together some of the brightest minds in mathematics and …

Max Award for community opera “La Gata Perduda”

The CWI's DIS group provided an interactive platform for facilitating the co-creation of the Opera. Max awards are the most important performing arts awards in Spain.

The full cast from La Gata Perduda on stage

Study presents large brain-like neural networks for AI

In a study that appears today in Nature Machine Intelligence*, CWI researchers Bojian Yin and Sander Bohté demonstrate a significant step towards artificial intelligence (AI) that can be used in local devices …

Poster award for research on bias

Savvina Daniil won the first prize at the poster prize awards at ICT.OPEN 2023. Her poster on the source of bias in recommender systems was chosen out of 20 abstract submissions.

DIS group at ACM CHI Conference 2023

Research carried out by the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has resulted in contributions to this year's ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing …

French research institute Inria and Dutch CWI intensify their collaboration

National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the Dutch national research center for mathematics and computer science, signed a cooperation agreement today.