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CRYPTO 2017 Best Paper Award for breaking SHA-1 security standard
A team of researchers from CWI and Google have won the CRYPTO 2017 Best Paper Award for being the first to break the SHA-1 internet security standard in practice. Marc Stevens (CWI) …
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Quantum revolution at Lowlands
Quantum experts Harry Buhrman (CWI, QuSoft and UvA) and Ronald Hanson (QuTech, TU Delft) showed a glimpse of their scientific minds at the Lowlands pop festival 2017, discussing the quantum revolution.
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ERCIM News 110 focuses on Blockchain Engineering
ERCIM News No. 110 is now available on ERCIM News website. The focus of this issue is on Blockchain Engineering, with a contribution by CWI's Eric Pauwels.
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CWI PhD student Jasmijn Baaijens wins Best Talk Award at the ISMB-HitSeq conference
Jasmijn Baaijens, PhD student from CWI’s Life Sciences and Health group, has won the Best Talk Award at ISMB-HitSeq, the world's leading conference on high-throughput genomics.
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Veni grants for CWI researchers Tim Baarslag and Stacey Jeffery
NWO has awarded Veni grants to Tim Baarslag and Stacey Jeffery. The funding allows these researchers, who have recently obtained their PhD, to conduct independent research and develop their ideas for a …
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CWI and Google research team wins Pwnie Award for Best Cryptographic Attack
Researchers at CWI and Google have won the Pwnie Award for Best Cryptographic Attack at the BlackHat USA security conference. They were awarded the prize for being the first to break the …
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Marc Stevens’ project awarded funding in ‘Big Data: real time ICT for logistics’ programme
NWO has granted five applications within the ‘Big Data: real time ICT for logistics’ research programme. CWI’s Marc Stevens is the main applicant of one of the five granted research projects: 'Secure …
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DIS contributes to MPEG’s work on Point Cloud Compression
The Distributed and Interactive Systems group has been a core contributor to the effort of Moving Picture Experts Group on 3D point cloud compression technologies. This effort aims at providing efficient representation …
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