News — CWI Amsterdam

EU grant for CWI and UCL to improve X-Ray scanning at lower doses with AI

CWI and UCL received an EU ATTRACT grant to deploy and develop AI techniques to improve X-ray CT scanning in such a way that much lower doses of radiation can be used to obtain high-resolution images. The project started in July 2019.

CWI researcher designs award-winning cryptographic lottery algorithm

Benjamin Wesolowski (CWI) developed a new key ingredient for cryptographic lottery machines and received the Best Young Researcher Paper Award at Eurocrypt 2019. His results can be used for more sustainable blockchain technology.

Grant for CWI to improve Next Generation Internet

NLnet Foundation awarded CWI with a grant to develop a replacement for a decades-old application programming technique for communication on the internet. This might result in an alternative to deep packet inspection for network operators that better protects privacy for users.

Responsible use of Data key theme in successful SIGMOD/PODS 2019 Amsterdam

Drawing over 1000 visitors and record industry sponsorship, this year’s edition of the ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference turned Amsterdam into the world’s hotspot for data management research. The week-long conference on one evening also featured the biggest ever Amsterdam Data Science (ADS) meetup for local data scientists.

Humies Silver award for Peter Bosman and colleagues

CWI researchers Peter Bosman and Hoang Luong, along with colleagues from Amsterdam UMC, have been awarded the Humies Silver award at the GECCO 2019 conference, for their efforts in the automated generation of treatment plans for prostate cancer using brachytherapy.

Researchers hail demise of online security algorithm

An international team of mathematicians has hailed the end of a variant of a code that is widely used to protect online transactions. The five researchers are from EPFL, CWI and the universities of Surrey and Passau.

Three Veni grants for CWI researchers

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant to Georgios Amanatidis, Marleen Balvert and Christian Majenz. The grant provides them with the opportunity to further elaborate their research ideas during a period of three years.

Two CWI scientists receive JCF Young Researcher Award

CWI scientists Dr. Anastasia Borovykh and Dr. Beatriz Salvador have received the JCF Young Researcher Award, granted by the Journal of Computational Finance. Both researchers were awarded for their outstanding work, which they presented during the International Conference on Computational Finance.

KWF grant for Peter Bosman together with Amsterdam UMC

Peter Bosman of CWI's Life Sciences & Health group has been awarded a project by the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) together with the Oncology department of Amsterdam UMC.

ELA Best Presentation award for Bernard Zweers

Bernard Zweers of CWI’s Stochastics group has been awarded the best presentation award at the 24th doctorate workshop of the European Logistics Association.

CWI part of NWA CORTEX consortium

The National Science Agenda has awarded a 5 million euro grant to CORTEX – the Center for Optimal, Real-Time Machine Studies of the Explosive Universe. Self-learning machines will hunt for explosions in the universe and speed up innovations in industry and society.

CWI RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NEW TECHNIQUES FOR GENERAL TOP-DOWN PARSING OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Afroozeh and Izmaylova, PhD students at CWI's Software Analysis and Transformation group, present new techniques for declarative parsing of programming languages in their thesis "Practical Genereal Top-down Parsers."

In Memoriam Piet Hemker

With sadness we announce that CWI Fellow and former CWI researcher Piet Hemker passed away on 27 May. Hemker had been working at CWI from 1970–2006 and since 1989 also as a professor at the UvA. He has been a CWI Fellow since 2001 and was named Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2006.

CWI researcher develops a unifying framework for quantum algorithms

A large group of quantum algorithms can now be easier understood and optimized, using a new framework developed by QuSoft researcher András Gilyén. In his PhD thesis Gilyén provides a framework that unifies quantum algorithms, while optimizing their hardware requirements. His thesis was awarded cum laude

CWI grieved by death of former director Cor Baayen

CWI's former director Cor Baayen passed away last Wednesday. Baayen served as the institute’s director from 1980 to 1994. During this period he played a key role in shaping computer science as a distinct scientific field. Under his leadership CWI transformed from a mathematical institute to a center of expertise for both mathematics and computer science.

Sander Bohté and Kees Oosterlee awarded with NWO Indo-Dutch funding

Sander Bohté (Machine Learning) and Kees Oosterlee (Scientific Computing) have been awarded with funding from NWO’s Indo-Dutch joint research programme for ICT.

CWI in Business 2019 – a compass for digital innovation

On Thursday 16 May CWI organized its matchmaking and networking event CWI in Business (CWI in Bedrijf 2019). Speakers from the business community and CWI researchers showed future opportunities in digital innovation. Keynote speakers were Jeroen Maas (Amsterdam Economic Board) and John Baekelmans (imec/Holst Centre).

ESTRO-Elekta Brachytherapy Award for Anton Bouter

Anton Bouter of CWI's Life Sciences & Health group has been awarded the ESTRO-Elekta Brachytherapy Award at the European SocieTy for Radiation & Oncology (ESTRO 38) conference in Milan, Italy.

Jie Li and Sophie Huiberts selected to participate in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum

Jie Li from the DIS group and Sophie Huiberts from the N&O group have been selected to participate in the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF). The annual HLF event selects a small group of 200 most qualified Young Researchers worldwide to meet pre-eminent scientists from the fields of mathematics and computer science.

CWI’s DIS group Releases Open Source Software Platform for Object-Based Broadcasting Production

H2020 EU-funded project 2-IMMERSE, of which CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group is a member had a successful final review meeting. DIS has contributed with several core platform components related to media synchronization and with a set of production tools for professionals.

DIS at CHI 2019

The Distributed and Interactive Systems group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) will be present at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019, presenting three full papers.

Awards for SWAT and DIS at ICT OPEN 2019

CWI's SWAT and DIS group have been awarded with a prize at NWO's ICT OPEN 2019, the event for ICT research in the Netherlands.

CWI develops price models for financial derivatives

The risks of trading complicated financial contracts can be unclear to a certain extent. In order to get a better insight in the determination of prices of such financial derivatives, CWI researcher Anton van der Stoep developed and improved financial mathematical research methods.

CWI DIS Group awarded EU Worth Project Funding

CWI's Distributed & Interactive Systems Group (DIS) has been awarded a grant for a project by the EU's WORTH Partnership Project.

Cryptographic security at the speed of light

When people who distrust each other want to securely cooperate, they can use cryptographic 'commitment schemes'. Max Fillinger (CWI) designed and analyzed relativistic commitment schemes. He defends his PhD thesis 'Bit-Commitments: Classical, Quantum and Non-Signaling' on 19 March.

CWI spin-off company Dataspex offers solutions to big data challenges in astronomy

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has launched a new spin-off: Dataspex. The new company offers big data management solutions to astronomers.

Steven Pemberton in Nieuwsuur TV on Web@30

To celebrate 30 years since Tim Berners-Lee's proposal for the World Wide Web, an anniversary event is webcast on 12 March. In the Netherlands, CWI Web pioneer Steven Pemberton was interviewed by Nieuwsuur. It was broadcast on national TV on 8 March.

WINDTRUE project starts with kick-off meeting at CWI

On 4 March our new WINDTRUE project took to the air, aiming to develop new models that help turbine designers manage large uncertainties in wind and wave behavior, which makes well-dimensioned, cost-optimal designs possible.

Monique Laurent member of Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities

Researcher and MT member Monique Laurent (CWI and UvT) has been invited to become a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen – KHMW) in Haarlem, the oldest academic society in the Netherlands.

Evaluation committee says institutes system at Academy and NWO has significant added value

An independent committee has evaluated the portfolio of Dutch national research institutes, including CWI. The committee concludes that these institutes increase the effectiveness of Dutch scientific endeavour.