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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.
Bringing Quantum Computers Closer to Reality
The concept of quantum computing was first proposed back in the 1980s and since then the race has been on to develop the first reliable, scalable quantum computer. Done right, this revolutionary …
ABN AMRO and QuSoft join hands to explore the power of quantum software
ABN AMRO and QuSoft are joining forces to explore the opportunities offered by quantum software and quantum computers. Operating under the name DisQover, the partnership will reveal what issues in the financial …
CWI develops unique method for reconstruction of mutated viruses
Jasmijn Baaijens, PhD student in CWI’s Life Sciences and Health group, has developed a new computational tool that can reconstruct mutated versions of a virus.
Cum laude for CWI research quantifying effect of safety margins in route planning
When drivers avoid certain highways to escape the risk of usual traffic jams, they can significantly increase the average travel time for everyone in the road network. CWI researcher Pieter Kleer developed …
Personal Quality of Experience for Multi-Party Desktop Video-Conferencing
Video-conferencing via Skype or Google Hangouts has become one of the standard tools for communication in our daily lives. If we want the video-communication systems to react to network fluctuations and provide …
Domein-specifieke talen: meer mogelijk maken met minder code
Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) kennen veel voordelen. Zo is programmeren met DSLs efficiënter, sneller en minder foutgevoelig dan bijvoorbeeld programmeren in Java. Tijs van der Storm, senior onderzoeker aan het CWI en …
IBM to deploy quantum-proof cryptography co-developed with CWI and RU
Together with CWI, RU and other international partners, IBM Research has developed quantum-safe algorithms for securing data. IBM has now implemented these algorithms in the world’s first quantum computing safe tape drive.
What is code and what is coding?
There exist thousands of programming languages, but only a dozen of them are popular beyond a few hundred users of the language. Some of them are used by hundreds of thousands of …
