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Peter Boncz nominated for ICTRegie Award 2006
On Monday 10 April 2006, during the opening of the Kennismarkt of the ICT Kennis Congress in Amsterdam, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science Maria van der Hoeven, announced the three …
Launch MonetDB/XQuery
Computer scientists of the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and the Universities of Twente and Konstanz will launch MonetDB/XQuery at the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam (May 30 …
CWI builds new supercomputer
CWI has started the construction of a new supercomputer cluster in the beginning of October 2003. The cluster, consisting of 48 dual and quad AMD Opteron systems, is the first quad Opteron …
Enabling more effective multimedia search queries
Ph.D. student Menzo Windhouwer has developed a method to enable semantic queries in multimedia databases. To provide access to stored multimedia objects, database systems use annotations, particular features describing the objects. When …
