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CWI develops software that can manage itself

The increase of cloud technology has put a strain on developers and IT administrators to manually manage cloud software services and hardware infrastructure. Nikolaos Bezirgiannis (CWI) explored letting cloud software ‘manage itself’. …

Peter Bosman appointed part-time professor Delft University of Technology

Recently, Peter A.N. Bosman, senior researcher in the CWI Life Sciences and Health (LSH) group, has been appointed part-time professor Evolutionary Algorithms in the department of Software Technology of the faculty of …

Arunachalam presents findings on quantum algorithms and machine learning

On 25 April 2018, CWI PhD student Srinivasan Arunachalam will defend his thesis at the University of Amsterdam. In his thesis, Arunachalam analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the quantum computer for …

In memoriam MC pioneers Blaauw, Kriens and Verhoeff

In March 2018 three former colleagues sadly passed away: Gerrit Blaauw, Koos Kriens and Koos Verhoeff. They did pioneering research at the Mathematisch Centrum (MC) in Amsterdam, currently called CWI.

CWI researchers simulate how ‘coherent structures’ affect solar wind heating

CWI researchers have further developed our understanding of how solar wind particles get accelerated and heated. In particular, they discovered how ‘coherent structures’ in the solar wind, places where the magnetic fields …

DIS at CHI 2018

The Distributed and Interactive Systems group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) will be present at CHI 2018 showcasing their research on a case-study of developing a multi-sensory clubbing experience during Amsterdam …

Inaugural lecture Nanda Piersma: urban analytics for smart cities

On 17 April 2018, Nanda Piersma will give her inaugural lecture titled ‘Through the clouds, urban analytics for smart cities’. Piersma is part of CWI’s Intelligent and Autonomous Systems research group and …

Better simulations for lightning and high-voltage technology

Until recently, it was not clear how lightning could start. CWI PhD student Casper Rutjes modelled and simulated the origin of lightning and ionizing radiation from storm clouds and explained the physics …