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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.
New simulations explain huge lightning flashes
With new simulations Alejandro Luque and Ute Ebert (CWI) explained huge lightning flashes above clouds: sprites. They published their results in Nature Geoscience, which appeared online on 25 October 2009.
Mathematics for Dry Feet
On September 1st Joris Bierkens joined the Center of Mathematics & Computer Science (CWI) as an assistant in the Deltares funded project 'Mathematics for Dike Height Control'.
Jan H. van Schuppen Appointed as Full Professor TU Delft
Starting from 1 September 2009 Jan H. van Schuppen (CWI) has been appointed as professor Mathematical System Theory at the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer …
New array database technology for scientists
Faster database technology with MonetDB/X100
VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award for hardware-aware database technology
Researchers Peter Boncz, Stefan Manegold, and Martin Kersten of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam won the prestigious VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award on August 27.
Mathematics for money and games for maths teachers
Could the performance and development of a football player be calculated with mathematics? Does a fair electoral system exist for a democracy? Which games could be solved with group theory? These and …
Ingres and CWI spin-off VectorWise announce dramatic database performance improvement
Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company, announced on 29th July the Ingres VectorWise project. This is a collaboration between Ingres, VectorWise - a spin-off company from the leading database …
