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CWI awarded Industrial Doctorates program on Financial Risk Management
Recently, Kees Oosterlee from CWI's Scientific Computing group has been awarded a project from the H2020 European Industrial Doctorates (EID) Program.
CWI trainee Carla Groenland runner-up in UvA Master Thesis Award 2018
Carla Groenland, UvA alumnus and a trainee at CWI’s Networks & Optimization research group, was chosen as the runner-up in the finale for the UvA Master Thesis Award 2018. In total there …
Davy Landman awarded with IPA dissertation Award
Former CWI PhD candidate and CEO of CWI spinoff SWAT.Engineering Davy Landman has been awarded the Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics (IPA) Dissertation Award 2018 for his thesis "Reverse engineering source …
Serge Fehr appointed as Professor Quantum Information Theory
Serge Fehr (CWI, UL) has been appointed as Professor Quantum Information Theory at the Leiden Mathematical Institute (MI) since 1 June 2018. His research is focused on quantum cryptology.
Joint industrial PhD program with Xinhuanet
CWI has launched a joint industrial PhD program with Xinhuanet in the research area of Social Internet of Things (IoT), smart textiles, and physiological computing. Xinhuanet Co. Ltd. is a key website …
Monitoring the Engagement of Groups with Sensors
The PhD thesis of CWI PhD student Chen Wang of the Distributed and Interactive (DIS) group reports on research to design a GSR system that can support and enhance actors’ awareness of …
Readers can increase retrievability of documents in the National Library collection
Crowdsourcing can help decrease the bias of the search engine of the ‘Koninklijke Bibliotheek’, the National Library of the Netherlands. CWI researchers will present that finding at the Joint Conference on Digital …
Bart Kamphorst finds best possible scheduling policy for servers in information-scarce settings
Nobody fancies a long wait between requesting some kind of online service and actually receiving that service. Therefore, in many situations, ICT-specialists aim to design their servers in such a way that …
