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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.

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.

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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 …

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Study presents large brain-like neural networks for AI

In a study that appears today in Nature Machine Intelligence*, CWI researchers Bojian Yin and Sander Bohté demonstrate a significant step towards artificial intelligence (AI) that can be used in local devices …

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Poster award for research on bias

Savvina Daniil won the first prize at the poster prize awards at ICT.OPEN 2023. Her poster on the source of bias in recommender systems was chosen out of 20 abstract submissions.

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DIS group at ACM CHI Conference 2023

Research carried out by the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has resulted in contributions to this year's ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing …

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Punched tape on display at CWI

Currently on display at CWI is a collection of punched tape, used for early computers, among others by the famous Edsger Dijkstra. It is temporarily replacing the ENIGMA machine, which can be …

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French research institute Inria and Dutch CWI intensify their collaboration

National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the Dutch national research center for mathematics and computer science, signed a cooperation agreement today.

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Break the Code? Breaking Changes and Their Impact on Software Evolution

Lina Ochoa Venegas defended her PhD thesis cum laude at the department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Eindhoven University of Technology on 29 March.

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