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Gilles Brassard wins 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Gilles Brassard, Charles H. Bennett, David Deutsch and Peter Shor were awarded the world’s largest science prize for their foundational work in quantum information. Brassard is currently hosted at QuSoft at NWO …

How quantum mechanics threatens our digital lives – and makes them safer

Much of the work of Serge Fehr (CWI and Leiden University) is abstract and theoretical and comprehensible to very few people. But his work helps make the digital world safer. He will …

Ute Ebert elected as AGU Fellow

The American Geophysical Union announced that Ute Ebert (CWI and TU/e) was elected as an AGU Fellow for crucial theoretical, numerical and experimental insights on lightning and related sciences.

Shaping the technologies that impact our democracy

Misinformation is just one of many problems we face with the rise of artificial intelligence. Technology is impacting our democracy in an unprecedented way. That is why CWI, the university of Amsterdam …

Banking on Domain Knowledge for Faster Transactions

Tim Soethout of CWI's Software Analysis and Transformation group defended his thesis at Eindhoven University of Technology.

Best presentation award for Francien Bossema at AmeriDendro

The prize was awarded for the presentation 'Applications and advances in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) for dendrochronology'.

2 Best Paper Awards for CWI at GECCO

Researchers from CWI and Leiden University were awarded two best paper awards at the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO) 2022.

Intel Award for Marten van Dijk and colleagues

Test of Time Award for a single-chip secure processor where the underlying system software is untrusted.