All 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.
How do we use space in VR?
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 …

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, …

The LEGO Turing machine
To honour the Alan Turing Year 2012, Turings centenary, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica organized the exhibition 'Turings Erfenis' (Turing's Legacy). Especially for this exhibition two CWI-researchers made a Turing machine out of …

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 …
