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CWI publishes news item about its research, education and the social impact of this research on a regular basis. In addition to news items, we also publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI contributing to tackling social issues.
Arnoud den Boer wins Gijs de Leve prize
Arnoud den Boer, former PhD student of CWI, has been awarded the Gijs de Leve Prize. The prize was awarded last week at the annual congress of the LNMB, the Dutch Network …
The week of quantum computing
Starting 12 January 2015, the Universiteit van Nederland publishes five public lectures by Harry Buhrman, head of the research group quantum computing at CWI. The series of lectures features the do's and …
ERCIM News 100 - Simulations Show how Lightning Creates Antimatter
ERCIM News 100 features the article 'Simulations Show how Lightning Creates Antimatter' written by Ute Ebert and Christoph Köhn from CWI.
CWI joins two large-scale energy projects
Researchers of CWI will participate in the projects ‘Smart Energy Systems in the Built Environment’ and ‘Excellence in Uncertainty Reduction of Offshore Wind Systems (EUROS)’ of the STW Perspective research programmes that …
Jos Baeten appointed professor at the UvA
Jos Baeten has been appointed professor of Theory of Computing at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Science. It is a part-time appointment that Baeten will combine with his directorship of …
Lynda Hardman appointed Distinguished Scientist ACM
Lynda Hardman, senior researcher and scientific staff member at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has been named Distinguished Scientists by ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery.
Stieltjes Prize 2013 for Benjamin Sanderse
Benjamin Sanderse, former PhD Student of CWI, has been awarded the Stieltjes Prize 2013, the prize for the best PhD thesis in mathematics in the Netherlands in 2013. In March 2013 Sanderse …
Fewer errors in software features by using delta modelling
When new features are being written into software code, errors can easily be made. This is due to the fact that feature code often interacts in many different places in the software.
