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Secure multiparty computation starts to deliver applications

On Monday 13 September, the 23rd edition of CWI in Business took place, this year in cooperation with TNO. Subject this year: Secure Multiparty Computation.

Best Italian PhD thesis prize for CWI's Giulia Bernardini

On 14 September 2021 the Italian chapter of EATCS awarded a prize for the Best Italian PhD Thesis in Theoretical Computer Science ex aequo to Giulia Bernardini (CWI) and Francesco Dagnino (University …

JoLEA: new lecture series on cutting-edge research on Evolutionary Algorithms

CWI, Leiden University, Utrecht University and VU Amsterdam proudly present the new Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA) series: top-quality lectures on EAs.

CWI co-organizes international trimester program at Bonn University

CWI is co-organizing an international trimester program on Discrete Optimization at the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. Goal of this community service is to collaborate and make progress on long-standing …

CWI management team visits universities

On 31 August, CWI’s management team visited the EEMCS Faculty of the University of Twente, as part of a CWI visit series to science faculties. Partly based on these visits, CWI’s MT …

CT scan by CWI reveals hidden double-panel painting from Rubens studio

CT scans of a Rijksmuseum panel painting in CWI’s FleX-ray laboratory have revealed a surprising insight: it turns out it was not painted on oak, as was always assumed, but on tropical …

How can AI help to collect waste?

In the new edition of CWI/AG Connect podcast series Superscience, Thijs Doorenbosch discusses Responsible AI and Urban Analytics with CWI/HvA's Nanda Piersma.

Start of ACCSS - new association of cybersecurity academics

Last month, members of the ACCSS association celebrated that ACCSS (ACademic Cyber Security Society) is now a formal association. Marten van Dijk, head of CWI’s Computer Security research group, is one of …