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DIS AT CHI 2022

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 …

Léo Ducas appointed professor of Mathematical Cryptology

Léo Ducas is appointed as a part-time professor Mathematical Cryptology at Leiden University. At CWI, he designed several cryptosystems, some of which might soon be adopted as new international standards.

Learning better from data: Rianne de Heide wins prestigious award for her dissertation

How can humans and computers learn from data? In her dissertation Rianne de Heide describes some of these problems and introduces a new way of hypothesis testing. For this she received the …

Veni grant for Alexander Ly

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) awarded a Veni grant to Alexander Ly, who will start working at CWI in the run of 2022. Ly received the grant for his proposal “Increasing Scientific …

New optimisation model enables rapid response to disruptions

PhD studen Dylan Huizing (CWI/VU) has developed a solution for planning preventive tasks maintenance tasks of ProRail such that incident fighters are evenly located over the network at all times, thus ensuring …

New statistical method brings studies together at an early stage

To be able to combine global research, PhD student Judith ter Schure of CWI's Machine Learning group developed a new kind of statistics: ALL-IN meta-analysis.

Abel Laureates Lectures at CWI with László Lovász and Avi Wigderson

On 8 April 2022 the two 2021 Abel Prize Laureates - László Lovász and Avi Wigderson - gave lectures at CWI during a festive afternoon programme for the Dutch science community. Below …

ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award 2022 for Steven Pemberton

CWI researcher Steven Pemberton has been awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award 2022. Congratulations!