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WISE programme: four Tenure Track positions for talented female scientists at NWO institutes

CWI participates in NWO’s WISE programme (Women In Science Excel), which provides - in 2019 - four Tenure Track positions for talented female scientists, with an opportunity to develop or expand their …

Reinforcing the electricity grid with evolutionary algorithms

Reliable electricity is essential for daily life, from household appliances to communication and transport. In his PhD research, Hoang Luong developed robust computational methods to help network operators address distribution network expansion …

CWI en Acumex gaan samen online onderhandelingstechnologie ontwikkelen met behulp van AI

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), het nationale onderzoeksinstituut voor wiskunde en informatica, en Acumex starten een onderzoekssamenwerking met als doel de ontwikkeling van autonome online AI onderhandelingstechnologie.

CWI and Acumex join forces on the development of online negotiation technology

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science, has agreed on a long-term research collaboration with Acumex to make autonomous online negotiation of complex goods …

Best paper award for paper co-authored by Francesca de Simone at EUSIPCO 2018

The paper "Rate Distortion Optimized Graph Partitioning for Omnidirectional Image Coding" authored by Mira Rizkallah (INRIA), Francesca De Simone (CWI), Thomas Maugey (INRIA), Christine Guillemot (INRIA), and Pascal Frossard (EPFL), has been …

Francesca de Simone awarded with UK Royal Society International Exchanges 2018 grant

Francesca de Simone of CWI's DIS group has been awarded with an INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES 2018 GRANT bij the UK Royal Society together with Laura Toni (UCL).

Distributed and Interactive Systems group at IBC 2018

CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems group will be present at IBC 2018, from 14th to 18th of September at RAI Amsterdam, showcasing their research. The International Broadcasting Convention is the world's most …

CWI group leader Ute Ebert on Focus TV

Ute Ebert, group leader of CWI’s Multiscale Dynamics group, appeared on national TV in the NTR science television programme Focus, where she explained which physical phenomena cause the beginning of lightning.