All news
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.
David Chaum and Guido van Rossum awarded Dijkstra Fellowship
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) will grant the honorary title ‘Dijkstra Fellow’ for the first time in its history. This edition the Dijkstra Fellowship will be awarded to David Chaum and Guido …
Extreme events better investigated with new math method
Fortunately, incidents like extreme weather, earthquakes or massive power grid blackouts are a rare occurrence. Analysing properly how likely such rare incidents are to happen can be very valuable, but also very …
New data framework illuminates uncertainties in offshore wind farm conditions
Wind speeds and wave heights can have a major effect on offshore wind farms. But because they are correlated, their combined significance for wind farm designs couldn’t be factored in until now. …
Life Sciences and Health group awarded RISE grant
The Life Sciences and Health group have been awarded a Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) grant from the European Commission.
CWI research collaboration leads to 100 million euro investment in Amsterdam
CWI’s research partner Databricks announced it will invest 100 million euros to expand its Amsterdam office. The company aims to grow to hundreds of R&D engineers. Databricks settled in Amsterdam nearly three …
The brain as a computer
On Wednesday 6 November 2019 Sander Bohte (CWI and UvA) will hold his inaugural lecture “the Brain as a computer” as a professor by special appointment of Cognitive Neurobiology.
NWO KLEIN grant for Stacey Jeffery and Marie Colette van Lieshout
CWI researchers Stacey Jeffery and Marie Colette van Lieshout have been awarded a grant from the NWO KLEIN programme.
Farewell Symposium ‘Declarative Amsterdam’ for Steven Pemberton
CWI celebrates the career of Web pioneer and CWI researcher Steven Pemberton on 4 October with the symposium ‘Declarative Amsterdam’. He is well-known for his pioneering work on (X)HTML, CSS and XForms …
