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ERC Starting grant for CWI researcher Daniel Dadush
In July, Daniel Dadush (CWI) was awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million euro for his proposal ‘Towards a Quantitative Theory of Integer Programming’. He aims to revolutionize the understanding of …
Veni grant for Daniël Pelt
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to CWI researcher Daniël Pelt.
Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather book published
Recently, the book 'Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather', edited by CWI researcher Enrico Camporeale and others, was published by Elsevier. The book provides “a thorough and accessible presentation of machine learning …
Technology grant awarded to optimize plasma-assisted combustion
Incomplete combustion in engines and central heating systems can generate toxic exhaust gases. An electric discharge or plasma can preprocess the mixture of air and fuel, which could largely improve the combustion …
Jie Li awarded with Best Paper Award at ACM TVX 2018
On 27 June, Jie Li of CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group has been awarded with the Best Paper Award at ACM TVX 2018, the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences …
De betrokkenheid van groepen monitoren met fysiologische sensoren
Het proefschrift van CWI-promovendus Chen Wang van de Distributed and Interactive (DIS)-groep rapporteert over onderzoek naar het ontwerpen van een GSR-systeem dat het bewustzijn van acteurs bij een publiek op afstand in …
CWI contributes to trial new broadcasting system FA Cup Final at Wembley
H2020 EU-funded project 2-IMMERSE, of which CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group is a member, tested their prototype end-to-end live production system for object-based broadcasting at the FA- cup final at …
Mark Raasveldt wins Student Research Competition at SIGMOD 2018
Mark Raasveldt, PhD student at CWI’s Database Architecture (DA) group, won the Student Research Competition at the SIGMOD 2018 conference for his work titled "MonetDBLite: An Embedded Analytical Database".
