Stories
In this section we publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI tackling social issues, or interviews with CWI researchers.
Insight in Wood: dating wooden objects with 3D CT imaging
Together with the Rijksmuseum, researchers of CIW's Computational Imaging group investigate art objects with the help of our state of the art FleX-ray scanner. PhD student Francien Bossema explains how they proceed.
Smart data collected from grandmothers living room
Chatting with family on the other side of the world via a hologram or selecting your own camera angles for your favourite club’s football match. CWI and TU Delft computer scientist Pablo …
Cultural AI and its steady acceptance in the heritage sector
The heritage sector is learning to embrace artificial intelligence. This certainly is encouraging, according to CWI researcher Jacco van Ossenbruggen and Martijn Kleppe, head of research at the National Library of the …
Interview with Dijkstra Fellow David Chaum
David Chaum (1955) was awarded the Dijkstra Fellowship for his groundbreaking work in privacy and cryptology and the development of digital currency, which laid the technological basis for blockchain and bitcoin. This …
Sophie Huibert’s experience at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum
In September of 2019, Sophie Huiberts visited the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. In this blog she shares her experience and looks back on this
Privacy-friendly and data-driven HIV treatments
Thomas Attema (TNO en CWI) will present a lecture on privacy-friendly and data-driven HIV treatments, at the dcypher Symposium 2019. during the Secure Multi-Party Computation and Data Sharing session.
Interview David Chaum: “Blockchain will decentralize power”
David Chaum (1955) is one of the most important pioneers in encryption. His research laid the technological basis for blockchain and bitcoin. On 21 November 2019, CWI will award him the Dijkstra …
“I'd rather write code than papers”
Guido van Rossum (1956) is the founding father of the Python programming language, one of the most popular development tools in the world. In 2019 CWI will award him the Dijkstra Fellowship.
