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News about CWI research, education and the social impact of this research.

The .nl domain turns thirty-five!

On Sunday 25 April it will be exactly thirty-five years since CWI registered the .nl domain, and on 1 May 1986 the very first .nl domain name – cwi.nl. Since then, more …

Piet Beertema behind is computer. Picture: Pieter Boersma for Intermagazine, 1985

Web changes

Our website is renewed. Apart from some changes on the homepage you can now find more information on our pilot theme 'Cryptography and Security'.

Davide Ceolin winner of the 2020 eTEC call

Winners of four pioneering eTEC projects are announced by Escience center.

Tremendous Boost for Quantum Research in the Amsterdam Ecosystem

The financial injection of 615 million euros from the National Growth Fund of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy gives a tremendous boost to quantum research and development in …

QDNL Awarded 615 Million Euro from Netherlands’ National Growth Fund to Accelerate Quantum Technology

Funds will be used to train 2,000 researchers and engineers to scale 100 start-ups and to host three corporate R&D labs in the Netherlands by 2027

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 …