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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.
Amsterdam scientists in Nature: Global warming could destabilize plankton
Global warming of the surface layers of the oceans reduces the upward transport of nutrients. This generates chaos among the plankton, according to researchers of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Centrum …
CWI contributes to SMIL 2.1 W3C Recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released SMIL 2.1, the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, as a W3C Recommendation on December 13, 2005. With SMIL, authors can create interactive multimedia presentations and animations …
Veni-grant for quantum security researcher Serge Fehr
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to dr. Serge Fehr for his research on Information security using quantum mechanics. This was announced by NWO on 20 …
Computer scientist investigates sparks with 'virtual microscope'
How exactly are electric sparks formed? Carolynne Montijn - researcher of the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam - developed a 'virtual microscope', a computational technique allowing her to zoom …
NWO Spinoza Prize 2005 for Alexander Schrijver
Mathematician prof.dr. Alexander Schrijver is awarded the Spinoza Prize 2005. This was announced by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research in The Hague on June 6. Lex Schrijver (1948) is researcher at …
Mathematician simulates axon development
How do neurons grow during the development of the nervous system? Johannes Krottje from CWI modelled this growth and made a flexible simulation package - AGTools - for biologists and brain researchers. …
Better methods to guarantee software quality
The complexity of software increases while at the same time its quality level becomes more important: Safety-critical systems should never fail and commercial products have to perform well to keep the customers …
TT-Medal Project wins ITEA Achievement Award 2005
The Board of ITEA - Information Technology for European Advancement - selected the TT-Medal project as the winner of the ITEA 2005 Achievement Award. This was announced at the 6th ITEA Symposium …
