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.
Looking back: the search for Hugo de Groot's book chest
In this series we look back on CWI events and accomplishments that were in the news fairly recently. This episode: the quest for the book chest in which Hugo de Groot escaped …
Math helps get volunteers to emergencies faster
In emergencies, such as cardiac arrest or a fire, volunteers are sometimes faster on the scene than first responders. Rob van der Mei, a researcher at CWI, is investigating how to optimally …
More than spins
Researchers from UvA, QuSoft and CWI published a scientific article in Physical Review Letters, in spring 2024, on a new computational method to accurately describe what happens inside quantum devices.
Strengths and weaknesses of quantum algorithms
CWI researchers have developed new quantum algorithms for a number of computational problems. They also discovered fundamental limits on the performance of future quantum computers: for many computational problems quantum computers will …
At the forefront of multimedia and security standards
In recent years CWI researchers have contributed to the development of new international standards for three-dimensional video and post-quantum cryptography. In the near future this will lead to new multimedia formats for …
Making AI more energy efficient with neuromorphic computing
Twenty-five years of pioneering work in neuromorphic computing at CWI is now bearing fruit. Thanks to algorithmic breakthroughs in training spiking neural networks many AI-applications can become much more energy-efficient.
Revolutionizing statistics to tame the replication crisis
CWI researchers have developed a better measure for determining whether or not scientific results are statistically significant. This ‘E-value’, as it is called, replaces the commonly used but often problematic p-value.
Fast and efficient data analysis thanks to new database architectures
CWI’s long-term software development has led to fundamentally new database architectures that have transformed a trillion-dollar global database market.
