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TCS journal honours Jan Rutten

Jan Rutten from CWI’s Formal Methods research group was recently awarded by the journal Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) for his much cited article Universal Coalgebra – a theory of systems, on the …

Efficient method to make changes in compressed database

PhD student Sándór Héman from CWI developed a new method to compress a large database, allowing for a much faster transport of data from storage to processor. Furthermore he developed efficient algorithms …

CWI and VU develop algorithms for pharmaceutical research

In their search for new drugs, researchers increasingly use computer simulations to discover and test new molecules for pharmaceutical use. This does not only increase the chance of finding new or better …

Arjen P. de Vries appointed Professor of Information Retrieval at Radboud University

Arjen P. de Vries is appointed full-time Professor of Information Retrieval at Radboud University Faculty of Science per 1 November 2015. He is currently group leader of the Information Access group at …

Jannis Teunissen wins GEC15 Student Award of Excellence

Jannis Teunissen from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, won the Student Award of Excellence of the GEC for his talk 'Advances in the three-dimensional simulation of streamer discharges' …

First book on quantum-secure multi-party computation

Ronald Cramer (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica), Ivan Damgard and Jesper Nielsen (Aarhus University) recently published the first book ever on information-theoretically secure multiparty computation (MPC) – a subfield of cryptography that describes …

Jesper Nielsen, Ivan Damgard and Ronald Cramer in 2015.

Lynda Hardman President Informatics Europe

Today, Lynda Hardman, member of the management team at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, has been elected President of the Board of Informatics Europe, the European association of computer science …

Researchers urge: industry standard SHA-1 should be retracted sooner

An international team of cryptanalysts urges the industry today that SHA-1 internet security standard should be retracted sooner, since the cost of breaking it is significantly lower than previously thought.