News

CWI publishes news item about its research, education and the social impact of this research on a regular basis. In addition to news items, we also publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI contributing to tackling social issues.

Understanding users to optimise 3D experiences

Silvia Rossi of CWI's Distributed & Interactive Systems group is working on two areas of understanding user interactions in immersive media. She tells all about it in this story.

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Marten van Dijk and co-authors win ACM CCS 2023 Test of Time Award

Marten van Dijk and his co-authors won the ACM CCS 2023 Test of Time Award for their research on Path ORAM – an algorithm to prevent adversaries from using access patterns to …

Marten van Dijk at a whiteboard at CWI, January 2024 (with focus area).

Photosynthetic finalist in prestigious Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge

Out of more than 4,000 international participants, CWI spin-off Photosynthetic has been selected as a finalist in the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge. The pioneer in micro-3D printing technology is one of the …

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Post-quantum cryptography must keep our bank account, DigiD and state secrets safe

CWI PhD candidate Jelle Don defends his PhD thesis at Leiden University on 23 January 2024.

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Test of Time Award for paper on vectorized execution

A CWI paper on a new way of implementing database systems has won the Test of Time Award, established by the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR). The paper was published …

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

CWI will be closed during the holidays.

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DIS Co-organizes a Dagstuhl Seminar in Social XR

Pablo Cesar, from the Distributed and Interactive Systems group (DIS) of CWI, has co-organized the Dagstuhl Seminar #23482, titled “Social XR: The Future of Communication and Collaboration.

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Solving the bank: lightweight specification and verification techniques for enterprise software

CWI PhD student Jouke stoel simplified complex banking software with innovative techniques.

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