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CWI research leads to better understanding of AI classification errors

The future of artificial intelligence (AI) looks bright, but AI is not infallible. In her PhD thesis, CWI researcher Emma Beauxis-Aussalet provides methods to make classification errors more transparent and understandable for …

CWI develops models for prevention and reduction of traffic jams

Daphne van Leeuwen of CWI’s Stochastics group focused on the following research question during her PhD: How to design effective control mechanisms to reduce or prevent congestion road networks in the omnipresence …

Tim Baarslag selected for ‘FD Young Talents 2019’

Tim Baarslag of CWI’s Intelligent and Autonomous Systems group has been selected by the Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad (FD) as one of the most promising Young Talents of 2019.

CWI researcher Fredrik Jansson in Science Robotics on robot swarms

Hundreds of small robots can work in a team to create biology-inspired shapes without an underlying master plan, purely based on local communication and movement. This research was published in Science Robotics, …

CWI joins ESCAPE project to build European Open Science Cloud

CWI will participate in the ESCAPE project, which is part of the effort to build a European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which will allow universal access to scientific data through a single …

Best Early-Researcher Paper Award for Tim Baarslag

Tim Baarslag of CWI's Intelligent and Autonomous Systems group has been awarded with the "Best Early-Researcher Paper Award" at the Agreement Technologies (AT2018) conference in Bergen, Norway.

CWI, EIT Digital, Spirit, and UPM launch Innovation Activity ''G-Moji' - an impressive smartphone application to improve lives of …

Dutch youth care organization Spirit, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), join forces in the new innovation activity of EIT Digital.

Marie Curie ITN grant awarded to POEMA network

Recently, the EU awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) grant for POEMA – ‘Polynomial Optimization, Efficiency through Moments and Algebra’. The consortium consists of 14 academic and industrial partners, such …