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Levchin prize for Marc Stevens’ groundbreaking work on hash functions

For their groundbreaking work on the security of collision resistant hash functions researchers Marc Stevens (CWI) and Xiaoyun Wang (Tsinghua University) were awarded one of the two 2020 Levchin Prizes for real-world …

New protocols can speed up early quantum computers

How can quantum computers perform as many computations as possible within the short lifespan of quantum memory? CWI researcher Koen Groenland developed methods to do so. His results can help improve early …

Meet Turing Award winner Michael Stonebraker at ADS Meetup

In the wake of the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), several of its high-profile participants will speak at a special public meetup “ADS Meets CIDR”.

CWI starts research project within NWO programme Smart Solutions for Horti- and Agriculture

A consortium led by Joost Batenburg of CWI’s Computational Imaging group has been awarded a grant of EUR 800.000 by the board of the NWO domain science.

Amsterdam knowledge institutes to invest 1 billion euros in AI

CWI and other Amsterdam-based knowledge institutes have joined forces to invest 1 billion euros in the development of responsible AI technologies. The partners will set up research programmes, attract top scientists and …

Better parallel programming with help of ABS language

Current programming languages cannot use the full potential power of manycore chips. Keyvan Azadbakht studied the formal programming language ABS and extended the programming model and analysis techniques. He defended his PhD …

Alina Striner (DIS) awarded Best Paper Award at ICIDS 2019

On 22 November, Alina Striner of CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group was awarded the Best Paper Award at ICIDS 2019, the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling.

CWI develops new mathematical tools for analysis of rare events

PhD student Bohan Chen of CWI’s Stochastics group, developed new mathematical tools for rare event analysis. Chen’s PhD research has mainly focused on large deviations theory and rare-event simulation in heavy-tailed settings.