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Improved throughput of sensor networks with maths

PhD student Martijn Onderwater (CWI and VU) optimized the throughput of ZigBee sensor networks with mathematical techniques. This is important, as the number of sensors is growing and their networks become more …

Vici grant for Joost Batenburg

Researcher Joost Batenburg of CWI has been awarded a Vici grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for his proposal 'Real-Time 3D Tomography'. With the 1.5 million euro grant, Batenburg …

Getting to grips with software quality

There is an urgent need for new, automated techniques to analyze software and to guarantee its quality, argues part-time professor of Automated Software Testing and CWI group leader Jurgen Vinju in his …

CWI celebrates 70th birthday

On 11 February 2016 Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) celebrates its 70th anniversary.

CWI spin-off MonetDB Solutions helps building ExaNeSt platform

In a new EU project MonetDB Solutions helps to showcase the future generation ExaNeSt platform, which consists of up to 10 million of low-cost and low-energy ARM processors. The CWI spin-off will …

ERCIM News 104 on Big Data in Life Sciences co-coordinated by Roeland Merks

ERCIM News No. 104 was published in January 2016 at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en104

CWI Congratulates W3C with Emmy® Award for Timed Text

W3C received a 2016 Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for its work on the Timed Text Mark-up Language standard that makes video content …

Emmy® Award for W3C Standards Work on Accessible Video Captioning and Subtitles

W3C will receive a 2016 Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for its work on the Timed Text Mark-up Language standard that makes video …