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Daniel Dadush and Samarth Tiwari receive Best Paper Award at CCC'20

Daniel Dadush and Samarth Tiwari from CWI's Networks and Optimization research group receive the Best Paper Award at the Computational Complexity Conference 2020 for their work 'On the Complexity of Branching Proofs'.

Daniel Dadush and Samarth Tiwari receive Best Paper Award at CCC'20

Balancing uncertainties in future electricity markets

The steady embrace of sustainable energy brings along new challenges. For example, the supply and demand of energy will fluctuate much more than with energy from fossil sources. PhD student Georgios Methenitis …

Balancing uncertainties in future electricity markets. Image: Shutterstock.

In Memoriam Willem van Zwet (1934-2020)

Prof. Willem van Zwet from Leiden University was advisor to the Mathematisch Centrum (now called CWI) from 1965-1984, chair of CWI’s Science Committee and Member of the Board. Throughout his career, Van …

In Memoriam Willem van Zwet (1934-2020)

EU Horizon 2020 grant award for realtime CT imaging project ‘xCting’

Project ‘xCTing’ from CWI’s Computational Imaging (CI) group and partners, has been awarded a grant from the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Innovative Training Networks programme.

EU Horizon 2020 grant award for realtime CT imaging project ‘xCting’

CWI develops New Techniques for Real-time Tomographic Reconstruction

Jan-Willem Buurlage of CWI's Computational Imaging group introduces various techniques that significantly reduce the time it takes to run conventional tomographic reconstruction algorithms without affecting image quality. He will defend his thesis …

CWI develops New Techniques for Real-time Tomographic Reconstruction

CWI introduces new design methodology for reliable and trustworthy software

To make the development process of software quick, efficient, reliable and automated, researcher Vlad-Nicolae Şerbănescu (CWI and LIACS) studied how to unify modelling and programming languages for reliable and trustworthy software.

CWI introduces new design methodology for reliable and trustworthy software. Image by Shutterstock.

ICT research after corona

In an interview with the Dutch ICT magazine AG Connect, CWI director Jos Baeten outlines how the corona crisis affects ICT research. Besides the difficulties and downright misery that result from Covid-19, …

ICT research after corona

BEST DEMO AWARD AT ACM IMX 2020 for paper on social VR clinic

On June 19th 2020, the demo paper “A Social VR Clinic for Knee Arthritis Patients with Haptics” was awarded the Best Demo Award at the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experience …

TONG XUE, JIE LI AND PABLO CESAR (DIS) AWARDED BEST DEMO AWARD AT ACM IMX 2020