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Comparing medical images better
Together with the radiation oncology department of AMC, Peter Bosman of CWI’s Life Sciences and Health group has been awarded 1.4 million euros for a project in NWO’s Open Technology Programme for …
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CWI spin off Stokhos nominated for Computable Award: vote now!
CWI spin off Stokhos has been nominated for a Computable Award in the category 'Best ICT project in healthcare 2017'. You can vote for Stokhos as of now. The winning project is …
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CWI Database Architecture researchers awarded with best paper runner up award at SSDBM
Researchers of CWI's Database Architecture group have been awarded with a best paper runner up award at 29th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2017) in Chicago. The researchers …
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A puzzle with a million pieces: assembling viral genomes from sequencing data
Researchers from CWI’s Life Science and Health group have developed a new computational tool, SAVAGE, for reconstructing the genomes of the different virus strains that affect an infected person. SAVAGE makes it …
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DIS researchers receive Excellence in DASH Award at MMSys 2017
Jan Willem Kleinrouweler of CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems group has received the Excellence in DASH Award at ACM Multimedia Systems 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Sung-Shik Jongmans wins IPA Dissertation Award 2016
Research school IPA awarded Sung-Shik Jongmans with the IPA Dissertation Award 2016. The jury wrote: “The thesis contains theoretical contributions, novel ideas, and practical implementation results. The results have been impactful and …
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CWI researcher simulates complex financial developments, from interest rates to the possibility of bankruptcy
PhD student Alvaro Leitao Rodriguez proposes new methods to tackle complex problems in the financial sector. With these methods, Leitao Rodriguez successfully simulates the movements of the interest rates in the Foreign …
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Steven Pemberton wins 2017 Best Demo Award at XML London
On 10 June 2017 Steven Pemberton won by acclamation the Demo Award at the XML London conference for his demonstration 'XForms Game'. XForms is a web technology and W3C standard, co-designed by …
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