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Unique cooperation CWI & BYBORRE in revolutionary Red Bull tech project at Amsterdam Dance Event

During Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and textile innovator BYBORRE experimented with the future of club culture at the exclusive Red Bull At Night Playrooms event. The Distributed …

Quantum entanglement can make communications more efficient

Entanglement – a quantum mechanical correlation between particles that can exist even over long distances – might be used for future ways of communication.

CWI wins Amsterdam Marathon business run

CWI's running team has won the business run of the Amsterdam Marathon on Sunday 16 October. The team was the fastest in a field of 80 teams in the half marathon event. …

Mapping the 'dark matter' of human DNA - research published in Nature Communications

Researchers from ERIBA, Radboud UMC, XJTU, Saarland University, CWI and UMC Utrecht have made a big step towards a better understanding of the human genome. By identifying large DNA variants in 250 …

CWI launches spin-off Stokhos Emergency Mathematics

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) announces the foundation of its new spin-off Stokhos Emergency Mathematics. Stokhos provides software solutions which enable the proactive relocation of emergency services based on predictions of future …

CWI mathematically describes cloud formation

Clouds play a major role in weather and climate, but are hard to include in predictions due to their chaotic nature. CWI researcher Jesse Dorrestijn developed new mathematical representations of clouds to …

New electricity grids possible with computer simulations

Renewable energy requires new electricity grids, sometimes over entire continents, because 'green energy' is often generated in remote locations.

Tijs van der Storm appointed at University of Groningen

Tijs van der Storm has been appointed professor of Software Engineering at the University of Groningen (RUG) It is a part-time appointment per 1 September 2016 that Van der Storm will combine …