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Best Paper Award for SWAT researchers at ICPE2016

Michael Steindorfer and Jurgen Vinju of CWI's Software Analysis and Transformation (SWAT) group were awarded a Best Paper Award at the 7th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2016).

Programme director NWO Transition to become vice president KNAW with effect from 1 September 2016

Wim van Saarloos will be appointed as vice president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) with effect from 1 September 2016 and will succeed José van Dijck as …

Former CWI PhD student wins Presidential Award for Scientists

Ton Dieker, former PhD Student (2002-2006) in CWI's Stochastics group, has received a 2016

Cum laude for new method making parallel programming easier

Due to the increase of multicore processors used in smart phones, game consoles and other computers, parallel programming has become increasingly important. To prevent software errors, concurrent calculations must always exactly be …

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.