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CWI launches first podcast ‘Superscience’

Together with IT professional magazine AG Connect, CWI presents a podcast series in honour of its 75th anniversary: Superscience. In the first episode: Sander Bohté.

Best Paper Award for LSH researchers at EMO 2021

Researchers from CWI's Life Sciences & Health group were awarded a Best Paper Award at EMO 2021 for their paper “Local search is a remarkably strong baseline for neural architecture search”.

New code breaking record for quantum-safe cryptography

A team of CWI cryptanalysts has set a new code breaking record for the lattice shortest vector problem (SVP) - a foundation for the security of next generation public-key cryptography, designed to …

Jan Hemelrijk Award for CWI's Rosanne Turner

The Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVSOR) awarded the Jan Hemelrijk Award to PhD student Machine Learning Rosanne Turner.

Millions for AI knowledge and investment consortium

CWI will be part of a knowledge and investment consortium made up of a large group of Dutch universities and a venture capitalist. The consortium has been awarded an €8 million grant …

Evolutionary Algorithms for high-quality solutions

It is not uncommon that the solution obtained by an algorithm is not as desired. To overcome this, Stef Maree's PhD research focuses on optimization algorithms for finding not just one solution, …

Transportation Research Board Showcase Paper for Stochastics Researchers

Their article "Long-Term Forecasting of Off-Street Parking Occupancy for Smart Cities was" selected by the Transportation Demand Committee from more than 100 papers submitted in 2020.

Researchers find substantial uncertainties in Covid-19 pandemic simulations

Computer modelling to forecast Covid-19 mortality contains significant uncertainty in its predictions, according to an international study led by researchers at UCL and CWI. Their article was published in Nature Computational Science …