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Best Paper Award for DIS researchers at PhyCS 2016

CWI researchers Chen Wang, Xintong Zhu, Thomas Roggla, and Pablo Cesar of CWI's Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group were awarded a prestigious Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Physiological …

CWI develops energy sharing platform for housing cooperative Amsterdam

Researchers in the European Grid-Friends project will launch a pilot for sharing renewable energy between households in the Amsterdam building project Schoonschip. By coordinating energy supply and demand between the houses, the …

Talk by Tijs van der Storm at Curry On conference (video)

On 18 July 2016, CWI researcher Tijs van der Storm gave a talk at the Curry On conference in Rome. The full recording of this talk, titled 'Rascal: the Swiss Army Knife …

Veni grants for Léo Ducas and Johannes Köster

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni grants to Léo Ducas and Johannes Köster of CWI.

Dick Bulterman appointed CWI Fellow

Prof. Dick Bulterman has been appointed CWI Fellow per 1 July 2016. This distinction is given to prominent researchers at CWI for their contribution to CWI's research and administration. Bulterman is member …

Shape instructs future fate of cells in Nature Communications

How does a cell make a decision about his future, on what type of cell it will be after the cell division? This process is described by Roeland Merks and Cong Chen …

Jurriaan Rot wins IPA Dissertation Award 2015

The Dutch research school IPA has awarded former LIACS PhD student Jurriaan Rot with the IPA Dissertation Award 2015.

Farhad Arbab honoured by Sharif University of Technology

CWI researcher Farhad Arbab was honoured by Sharif University of Technology in Iran as one of its fifty most outstanding alumni over the past fifty years. The alumni were selected for both …