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Two CWI scientists receive JCF Young Researcher Award

CWI scientists Dr. Anastasia Borovykh and Dr. Beatriz Salvador have received the JCF Young Researcher Award, granted by the Journal of Computational Finance. Both researchers were awarded for their outstanding work, which …

KWF grant for Peter Bosman together with Amsterdam UMC

Peter Bosman of CWI's Life Sciences & Health group has been awarded a project by the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) together with the Oncology department of Amsterdam UMC.

ELA Best Presentation award for Bernard Zweers

Bernard Zweers of CWI’s Stochastics group has been awarded the best presentation award at the 24th doctorate workshop of the European Logistics Association.

CWI part of NWA CORTEX consortium

The National Science Agenda has awarded a 5 million euro grant to CORTEX – the Center for Optimal, Real-Time Machine Studies of the Explosive Universe. Self-learning machines will hunt for explosions in …

CWI RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NEW TECHNIQUES FOR GENERAL TOP-DOWN PARSING OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Afroozeh and Izmaylova, PhD students at CWI's Software Analysis and Transformation group, present new techniques for declarative parsing of programming languages in their thesis "Practical Genereal Top-down Parsers."

In Memoriam Piet Hemker

With sadness we announce that CWI Fellow and former CWI researcher Piet Hemker passed away on 27 May. Hemker had been working at CWI from 1970–2006 and since 1989 also as a …

CWI researcher develops a unifying framework for quantum algorithms

A large group of quantum algorithms can now be easier understood and optimized, using a new framework developed by QuSoft researcher András Gilyén. In his PhD thesis Gilyén provides a framework that …

CWI grieved by death of former director Cor Baayen

CWI's former director Cor Baayen passed away last Wednesday. Baayen served as the institute’s director from 1980 to 1994. During this period he played a key role in shaping computer science as …