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Dis group develops Co-creation Space for digital humanities
As part of the TRACTION project, CWI's DIS group is developing The Co-creation Space, a “private social media tool" uniting media storage, sharing, and media editing capabilities of traditional social media. It …
DIS Group contributes to international standard on subjective assessment for 360º videos
Work from the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from CWI has resulted in a new standardization item from the International Telecommunication Union.
Human-Computer Interaction in the Netherlands
DIS group at ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2021 and revitalising CHI Nederland.
UvA, HvA and CWI launch AI Media & Democracy Lab
How will AI and digital technologies transform democracy and the media? researchers from UvA, AUAS and CWI will collaborate with media partners, societal partners and the municipality of Amsterdam in the new …
Pablo Cesar named ACM Distinguished Member
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has named Pablo Cesar as one of the 64 Distinguished Members 2020. ACM distinguished members are recognized for their individual contributions to the field of computing.
Irene Viola awarded NWO wise grant
Tenure-track researcher Irene Viola from CWI's Distributed and Interactive Systems group has been awarded a NWO Women In Science Excel (WISE) grant. It will be used to fund a PhD position on …
DIS group realized world’s first volumetric video conference over a public 5G network
Together with their partners of VRTogether, CWI's DIS group showcased the world’s first live 3D video conference using point clouds, over a commercial 5G network at the VR days 2020.
Computer science close to real world
Pablo Cesar, group leader of the Distributive and Interactive Systems group at CWI and Professor at TU Delft, is the recipient of the 2020 Netherlands Prize for ICT Research. In an interview …
