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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.
Programme director NWO Transition to become vice president KNAW with effect from 1 September 2016
Wim van Saarloos will be appointed as vice president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) with effect from 1 September 2016 and will succeed José van Dijck as …
Former CWI PhD student wins Presidential Award for Scientists
Ton Dieker, former PhD Student (2002-2006) in CWI's Stochastics group, has received a 2016
Cum laude for new method making parallel programming easier
Due to the increase of multicore processors used in smart phones, game consoles and other computers, parallel programming has become increasingly important. To prevent software errors, concurrent calculations must always exactly be …
Improved throughput of sensor networks with maths
PhD student Martijn Onderwater (CWI and VU) optimized the throughput of ZigBee sensor networks with mathematical techniques. This is important, as the number of sensors is growing and their networks become more …
Vici grant for Joost Batenburg
Researcher Joost Batenburg of CWI has been awarded a Vici grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for his proposal 'Real-Time 3D Tomography'. With the 1.5 million euro grant, Batenburg …
Getting to grips with software quality
There is an urgent need for new, automated techniques to analyze software and to guarantee its quality, argues part-time professor of Automated Software Testing and CWI group leader Jurgen Vinju in his …
CWI celebrates 70th birthday
On 11 February 2016 Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) celebrates its 70th anniversary.
CWI spin-off MonetDB Solutions helps building ExaNeSt platform
In a new EU project MonetDB Solutions helps to showcase the future generation ExaNeSt platform, which consists of up to 10 million of low-cost and low-energy ARM processors. The CWI spin-off will …
