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CWI and ProRail predict railway incidents

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and ProRail recently started a research collaboration in the area of the handling of incidents at the Dutch railways. It concerns a public private partnership between CWI and …

In Memoriam Willem Hundsdorfer

With sadness, we let you know that our colleague Prof. Willem Hundsdorfer passed away on Friday 10 November, at the age of 63. Since 1984 Willem had been affiliated with CWI; first …

Knipselkrant October 2017

The October 2017 'Knipselkrant' is now online available. An overview of recent issues can be found at the Media Clippings section: https://www.cwi.nl/intranet/organization/communication/media-clippings . Please note: the 'Knipselkrant' was relaunched in July 2017. …

NEWSGAC project kicked off

The NEWSGAC project, acquired by Laura Hollink and Jacco van Ossenbruggen, has kicked off last week week. Researchers of this project aim to open the 'black box' of machine learning in this …

First CWI thesis on web archiving

Thaer Samar successfully defended his PhD thesis "Access to and Retrievability of Content in Web Archives" on 30 October 2017

Best Paper Award for Training DevOps engineers

Researchers from CWI's Formal Methods group won the Best Paper Award in the 6th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESSOC) in September 2017. They were awarded the prize for their …

Tim Baarslag Winner of the 2017 Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award

Tim Baarslag (CWI) won the 2017 ERCIM Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award. This European prize is awarded each year to a promising young researcher of outstanding quality in computer science and applied …

CWI participates in impact study North/Southline

The North/Southline is the largest operation in Amsterdam’s public transport in decades. That is why the municipality of Amsterdam will start an extensive impact study together with knowledge institutions, the transport region …