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Knipselkrant October 2017
The October 2017 'Knipselkrant' is now online available. An overview of recent issues can be found at the Media Clippings section: https://www.cwi.nl/intranet/organization/communication/media-clippings . Please note: the 'Knipselkrant' was relaunched in July 2017. …
NEWSGAC project kicked off
The NEWSGAC project, acquired by Laura Hollink and Jacco van Ossenbruggen, has kicked off last week week. Researchers of this project aim to open the 'black box' of machine learning in this …
First CWI thesis on web archiving
Thaer Samar successfully defended his PhD thesis "Access to and Retrievability of Content in Web Archives" on 30 October 2017
Best Paper Award for Training DevOps engineers
Researchers from CWI's Formal Methods group won the Best Paper Award in the 6th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESSOC) in September 2017. They were awarded the prize for their …
Tim Baarslag Winner of the 2017 Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award
Tim Baarslag (CWI) won the 2017 ERCIM Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award. This European prize is awarded each year to a promising young researcher of outstanding quality in computer science and applied …
CWI participates in impact study North/Southline
The North/Southline is the largest operation in Amsterdam’s public transport in decades. That is why the municipality of Amsterdam will start an extensive impact study together with knowledge institutions, the transport region …
Jos Baeten elected ERCIM president
Jos Baeten, General Director of CWI, is elected as president of ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) for a period of two years.
Lightning produces afterglow of gamma radiation
Ionizing radiation due to lightning shines for much longer than presumed before: up to 10,000 times longer. This was demonstrated for the first time by computer simulations of CWI researchers. Their work …
