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Daniel Dadush receives prestigious Van Dantzig Prize

Daniel Dadush has been awarded the Van Dantzig Prize, which is considered the highest Dutch award in statistics and operations research. It is awarded by the VVSOR once every five years.

Computational Imaging groep in TV programma Historisch Bewijs Extra

In de vijfde aflevering van Historisch Bewijs Extra word je meegenomen in de wereld van CT-scans: hoe kan je door middel van röntgenscans een 3d-beeld maken van 2d-foto's?

CWI researchers involved in two NWO-Groot grants

In the NWO Open Competition ENW-GROOT programme, four CWI researchers received in total two grants to study machine learning and neural networks: Nikhil Bansal, Monique Laurent, Benjamin Sanderse and Leen Stougie.

XML Prague Demo Prize for Steven Pemberton

In February Steven Pemberton won the Demo Prize at the XML Prague conference for his XForms demonstration "It's Conference Time!". XForms is a web technology and W3C standard, co-designed by Pemberton, for …

Software engineering makes games more exciting

Creating good games with interesting game experiences is difficult. Software engineer Riemer van Rozen developed a domain-specific programming language (DSL) for games that allows game designers to design better games, in a …

Introducing Women In Quantum Development

Bringing women in quantum research together to form a professional and informal network. With that goal in mind, CWI researcher Stacey Jeffery and colleagues started the WIQD network. WIQD now aims to …

CWI Starts two projects on digital humanities: TRACTION and MediaScape

The Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has obtained two projects in the area of digital humanities, at the crossroads between human-computer interaction and humanities: MediaScape …

Quantum computers solve convex optimization problems faster

The advantages and limitations of quantum computing over classic computing have become clearer once again. PhD candidate Joran van Apeldoorn shows that a specific type of optimization problem can be solved much …