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Amsterdam based Knowledge and health care institutes join forces to improve urgent care for the elderly

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam health & technology institute (ahti), and health care institution SIGRA have joined forces in a new research project called “DOLCE VITA”.

ABN AMRO and QuSoft join hands to explore the power of quantum software

ABN AMRO and QuSoft are joining forces to explore the opportunities offered by quantum software and quantum computers. Operating under the name DisQover, the partnership will reveal what issues in the financial …

CWI develops unique method for reconstruction of mutated viruses

Jasmijn Baaijens, PhD student in CWI’s Life Sciences and Health group, has developed a new computational tool that can reconstruct mutated versions of a virus.

Cum laude for CWI research quantifying effect of safety margins in route planning

When drivers avoid certain highways to escape the risk of usual traffic jams, they can significantly increase the average travel time for everyone in the road network. CWI researcher Pieter Kleer developed …

Personal Quality of Experience for Multi-Party Desktop Video-Conferencing

Video-conferencing via Skype or Google Hangouts has become one of the standard tools for communication in our daily lives. If we want the video-communication systems to react to network fluctuations and provide …

IBM to deploy quantum-proof cryptography co-developed with CWI and RU

Together with CWI, RU and other international partners, IBM Research has developed quantum-safe algorithms for securing data. IBM has now implemented these algorithms in the world’s first quantum computing safe tape drive.

EU grant for CWI and UCL to improve X-Ray scanning at lower doses with AI

CWI and UCL received an EU ATTRACT grant to deploy and develop AI techniques to improve X-ray CT scanning in such a way that much lower doses of radiation can be used …

CWI researcher designs award-winning cryptographic lottery algorithm

Benjamin Wesolowski (CWI) developed a new key ingredient for cryptographic lottery machines and received the Best Young Researcher Paper Award at Eurocrypt 2019. His results can be used for more sustainable blockchain …