Stories
CWI publishes on a regular basis news item about our research, education and the social impact of this research. In addition to news items, we publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI tackling social issues.
Blogpost: behind the paper
In this blog post PhD researcher Maximilian Kiss shares the personal journey and the story behind the paper ‘2Detect – A large 2D expandable, trainable, experimental Computed Tomography data collection for machine …
Only a heartbeat away
Our researchers try to make the VR world a better place. With technology improving fast, they are tackling some of the main challenges in their area. This series addresses a couple of …
Secrets of the skull
Our FleX-ray Lab houses a unique X-ray machine that creates 3D scans of the most diverse objects. This allows us to reveal details that remain hidden in regular scans. In this series, …
A Greek Mystery
Our FleX-ray Lab houses a unique X-ray machine that creates 3D scans of a wide variety of objects. This reveals details that remain hidden in normal scans. In this series, we showcase …
Looking for bad apples
Our FleX-ray Lab houses a unique X-ray machine that creates 3D scans of the most diverse objects. This allows us to reveal details that remain hidden in regular scans. In this series, …
DuckDB: Introducing a new class of data management systems
As CWI database architecture researchers, Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt invented a new, much more efficient database technology for analysis. After its introduction in 2021 it now reaches two million downloads per …
Negotiating with a robot
The American supermarket chain Walmart recently announced that it is using an AI chatbot to negotiate with suppliers. "This is just the beginning. Negotiation AI will become very big”, says CWI researcher …
Punched tape on display at CWI
Currently on display at CWI is a collection of punched tape, used for early computers, among others by the famous Edsger Dijkstra. It is temporarily replacing the ENIGMA machine, which can be …
