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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 …

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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 …

CWI Algemeen 2022 09 15-009

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 …

CWI Algemeen 2022 09 29-027

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, …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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