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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.

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 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.

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, …

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 …

Jack Jansen (DIS) Awarded Best Demo Award at ACM MMsys 2020

On June 11th 2020 Jack Jansen of CWI's DIS group won the Best Demo paper Award at the ACM MMSys 2020 conference.

Marie Curie ITN grant awarded to ALPACA network

Recently, CWI and others were awarded an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) consortium grant for ALPACA –'Algorithms for PAngenome Computational Analysis'. The research project involves a total funding of 3.67 …

Innovation fund North Holland supports CWI startup Photosynthetic B.V.

Photosynthetic B.V., a new CWI startup, has received a convertible loan of €300.000 from Innovation Fund North Holland. Photosynthetic is a deep-tech startup working on a hardware solution for the microfabrication industry.