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Life Sciences and Health group awarded RISE grant

The Life Sciences and Health group have been awarded a Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) grant from the European Commission.

CWI research collaboration leads to 100 million euro investment in Amsterdam

CWI’s research partner Databricks announced it will invest 100 million euros to expand its Amsterdam office. The company aims to grow to hundreds of R&D engineers. Databricks settled in Amsterdam nearly three …

The brain as a computer

On Wednesday 6 November 2019 Sander Bohte (CWI and UvA) will hold his inaugural lecture “the Brain as a computer” as a professor by special appointment of Cognitive Neurobiology.

NWO KLEIN grant for Stacey Jeffery and Marie Colette van Lieshout

CWI researchers Stacey Jeffery and Marie Colette van Lieshout have been awarded a grant from the NWO KLEIN programme.

Farewell Symposium ‘Declarative Amsterdam’ for Steven Pemberton

CWI celebrates the career of Web pioneer and CWI researcher Steven Pemberton on 4 October with the symposium ‘Declarative Amsterdam’. He is well-known for his pioneering work on (X)HTML, CSS and XForms …

CWI signs partnership for Meaningful Control of Autonomous Systems

Together with TNO and the University of Amsterdam, CWI initiates a new research collaboration to study the impact of autonomous systems in society and the adoption of AI-based systems. Today, the three …

MonetDB Solutions secures investment from ServiceNow

MonetDB Solutions, a company formed by researchers at CWI, announces an investment from digital workflow company ServiceNow to help large enterprises drive digital transformation.

CWI research connects quantum computing and optimization

Sander Gribling studied if and how quantum computers can help solve optimization problems, like finding the shortest route. He developed new quantum algorithms that can help to solve them more efficiently. He …