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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.

Cycling & Mathematics: why Wilco Kelderman lost a minute or more to the early starters of the Giro 2020 …

Cycling pro Wilco Kelderman is a good individual time trialist and he said in his post-race interview that he felt he rode a great prologue at the Giro 2020. Knowing this, we …

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CWI introduces Computer Security research group

To make society, with its digital and physical infrastructures, a safer place, CWI introduces a new research group: Computer Security. Group leader is Marten van Dijk, who is very experienced in security …

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Modeling and Optimization of Network Assisted Video Streaming

Jan Willem Kleinrouweler of CWI's DIS group, investigates how to optimise the quality of video streaming in his thesis.

Modeling and Optimization of Network Assisted Video Streaming

Quest for the Hugo de Groot book chest

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam was pursuing an interesting question: in which book chest did Hugo de Groot escape from castle Loevestein in 1621? The Rijksmuseum and University of Amsterdam turned to CWI for help …

Quest for the Hugo de Groot book chest

Amsterdam coalition publishes special AI edition in New Scientist

To highlight the importance of AI to a broader public, the Amsterdam coalition ‘AI technology for people’ has published a special AI edition with New Scientist magazine. The AI edition showcases some …

Amsterdam coalition publishes special AI edition in New Scientist

CWI DIS Group's 'Lit Lace' project featured at Dutch Design Week

'Lit Lace', a collaborative project between the CWI's Distributed & Interactive Systems Group and the British Smart Fabric Designers Company Sara+Sarah is being featured in this year's Dutch Design Week.

CWI DIS Group's 'Lit Lace' project featured at Dutch Design Week

Pablo Cesar Appointed Professor of Human-Centered Multimedia Systems

Pablo Cesar has been appointed Professor of Human-Centered Multimedia Systems in the Department of Intelligent Systems (INSY) at TU Delft.

Pablo Cesar Appointed Professor of Human-Centered Multimedia Systems

Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) Group Awarded Best Paper Award at IEEE TCSVT 2020

Groundbreaking work that explores how new 3D media formats can be used for real-time remote collaboration, has been honoured with an 2020 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Best …

Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) Group Awarded Best Paper Award at IEEE TCSVT 2020