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QuSoft/CWI team earns 4th place in Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest 2019

On Saturday 19 October 2019, Arjan Cornelissen, Farrokh Labib and Ruben Brokkelkamp formed a combined QuSoft/CWI team in the BAPC 2019 programming contest. They earned the 4th place, competing against companies such …

Peter Bosman awarded NWO KLEIN grant

Peter Bosman of CWI's Life Sciences & Health group has been awarded a NWO KLEIN grant together with Amsterdam UMC.

Ivan Herman contributes to Contract for the Web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the Web Foundation have published the 'Contract for the Web', which was prepared by a large group of international experts, including Ivan Herman (CWI and W3C). CWI also …

Smart mobility start-up Skialabs launched by CWI researchers

Traffic flows in cities could be managed much more efficiently thanks to cutting-edge technology pioneered by the new start-up Skialabs. By using huge dataflows collected in cities, the Skialabs platform provides a …

CWI and INRIA use AI to better predict harmful solar storms

Extreme solar storms can have destructive effects on communications and electrical power grids. To improve space weather forecasting systems Mandar Chandorkar combined AI and data from space missions. He defends his thesis …

David Chaum and Guido van Rossum awarded Dijkstra Fellowship

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) will grant the honorary title ‘Dijkstra Fellow’ for the first time in its history. This edition the Dijkstra Fellowship will be awarded to David Chaum and Guido …

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Extreme events better investigated with new math method

Fortunately, incidents like extreme weather, earthquakes or massive power grid blackouts are a rare occurrence. Analysing properly how likely such rare incidents are to happen can be very valuable, but also very …

New data framework illuminates uncertainties in offshore wind farm conditions

Wind speeds and wave heights can have a major effect on offshore wind farms. But because they are correlated, their combined significance for wind farm designs couldn’t be factored in until now. …