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Our CWI in the media page features a selection of CWI appearances in prominent media channels, both national and international.

CWI database research at the root of Silicon Valley success

CWI researcher Peter Boncz was interviewed by Het Financieele Dagblad about the CWI roots of two successful Silicon Valley companies: Snowflake and Databricks. Both make software to store and process data.

First annual meeting of Dutch Inverse Problems community

A mathematician, a statistician and a physicist gather in a room…” sounds like the beginning of a joke. It was, however, the main ingredient of a very successful first annual meeting of …

Jordi Weggemans wins Lorentz Graduation Prize

CWI PhD student and QuSoft researcher Jordi Weggemans has won the Lorentz Graduation Prize for Theoretical Physics 2021 for his master thesis on a new quantum algorithm.

NWO Team Science Award for CWI with UvA and Rijksmuseum

A team of researchers from CWI, Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), Rijksmuseum and Universiteit Leiden (UL) have been awarded the first NWO Team Science Award for their research on the Hugo de Groot …

CWI-researchers performed at 'Gala van de Wetenschap'

CWI researchers Harry Buhrman, Stacey Jeffery and Maris Ozols performed at 'Gala van de Wetenschap'.

Second release ASTRA toolbox

The new version of ASTRA, co-developed at CWI, offers improvements in compatibility and interoperability with other toolboxes.

CWI podcast: How the FleX-ray scanner reveals art secrets

The science podcast "How CWI's FleX-ray scanner reveals art secrets" is now online. CWI PhD candidate Francien Bossema (CI) and Rijksmuseum professor Erma Hermens talk to science journalist Bennie Mols about our …

CWI and Sound and Vision open virtual museum during VR Days Amsterdam

3D video will change the way we experience cultural heritage in the future. The virtual museum of CWI and Sound and Vision is a demonstration of how virtual reality will change the …