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DIS organizes the Spring School on Social XR
As part of the research semester programme of CWI, the Distributed and Interactive Systems group (DIS) organized the Spring School on Social XR.
The power of metadata analysis in understanding online search behavior
Computer scientist Tessel Bogaard has demonstrated how metadata can improve our understanding of online search behaviour in vertical search engines that grant access to curated collections. She defended her thesis on 10 …
DuckDB: Introducing a new class of data management systems
As CWI database architecture researchers, Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt invented a new, much more efficient database technology for analysis. After its introduction in 2021 it now reaches two million downloads per …
Prestigious Gödel Prize for Ronald de Wolf
Ronald de Wolf and his co-authors receive the 2023 Gödel Prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science. The other winner of the 2023 Gödel Prize is Thomas Rothvoss.
DIS group at Point Cloud Visual Quality Assessment Grand Challenge
The Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from CWI participated in the competitive Grand Challenge “Point Cloud Visual Quality Assessment” from the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP).
CWI researcher Tim Baarslag selected as Heidelberg Laureate Forum alumnus
CWI researcher Tim Baarslag has been selected to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) for the second time. This annual scientific event brings together some of the brightest minds in mathematics and …
Max Award for community opera “La Gata Perduda”
The CWI's DIS group provided an interactive platform for facilitating the co-creation of the Opera. Max awards are the most important performing arts awards in Spain.
Negotiating with a robot
The American supermarket chain Walmart recently announced that it is using an AI chatbot to negotiate with suppliers. "This is just the beginning. Negotiation AI will become very big”, says CWI researcher …
