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DIS group contributes to the book Immersive Video Technologies
Members of our DIS group contributed to a new book that offers a comprehensive overview of immersive video technologies. Immersive video, which is often used with virtual reality technology, is a type of video content that is designed to make viewers feel like they are inside the video.
CWI spin-off DuckDB Labs partners with MotherDuck, who raises $47.5 million
CWI spin-off company DuckDB Labs helped create startup MotherDuck which aims to connect DuckDB to the cloud. MotherDuck managed to raise $47.5 million, they announced this week.
CWI researchers win Best Paper Award at SPIRE 2022
Wiktor Zuba, Solon Pissis and 4 co-authors were awarded the Best Paper Award of SPIRE 2022 for their paper ‘Subsequence Covers of Words’. Their research has potential applications in bioinformatics and data compression.
Over 1 million euros for CWI and Sound & Vison for XR research
Centrum Wiskunde &Informatica (CWI) and Sound & Vision are partners in the recently launched European research project TransMIXR. TransMIXR develops technologies that enable professionals in the cultural and creative industries to create new productions in eXtended Reality (XR).
Four quantum information pioneers speaking at QuSoft event at CWI
On 11 November, celebrated quantum information scientists and longtime collaborators Charlie Bennet and Gilles Brassard gave a lecture at QuSoft at CWI, being awarded the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. As a surprise, other winners Peter Shor and David Deutsch joined online.
2nd Annual Dutch Inverse Problems Meeting
Following a very successful first meeting in 2021, the second installment was organized on 10-11 November 2022 in conference center De Werelt in Lunteren.
Launch of EQSI-European Quantum Software Institute in Paris
On 8 November 2022, the EQSI–European Quantum Software Institute was launched with a stakeholder event in Paris. One of the founding members is QuSoft director Harry Buhrman (QuSOft, CWI & UvA).
Cultural AI team wins special award at heritage hackathon
A team with two PhD students from CWI won the Polyvocality Award (Meerstemmigheidsprijs) at the annual hackathon organized by Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed.
Algorithms that work – how higher mathematics generates innovation in healthcare
Scientists at CWI pursuing life sciences and health research are committed to designing models with direct applications to challenges in healthcare. Their work varies from optimizing treatment plans for cancer patients and reducing waiting times for ambulances to improving geriatric care and suicide prevention.
Van Wijngaarden Awards for Marta Kwiatkowska and Susan Murphy
Thursday 3 November, computer scientist Marta Kwiatkowska and mathematician Susan A. Murphy have been presented with the CWI Van Wijngaarden Award.
Life Sciences and Health makes way for new group: Evolutionary Intelligence
Since 1 October CWI has a new group: Evolutionary Intelligence (EI). At the same time, the Life Sciences and Health (LSH) group has ceased to exist. The group leader of EI is Peter Bosman, who was formerly a senior researcher in the LSH group.
DIS group supports community opera that premiered in Barcelona
On 5 October 2022, the world witnessed the premiere of La Gata Perduda (The Lost Cat) at the Liceu opera house in Barcelona. CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group played a special part in the creation of the opera by the Liceu and residents from the Raval neighbourhood.
IntACT: visualising the interior of art objects
The IntACT research team (CWI/Rijksmuseum) developed a tool to investigate art objects on the inside. In a new video the team explains the scope and outcome of the project.
'National Coalition for Sustainable Digitalization' calls on government for integrated approach to sustainable Digitalization
The National Coalition for Sustainable Digitalization (NCDD) presents a manifesto to Minister Adriaansens (EZK) today that encourages the creation of an integral approach to sustainable digitalization. CWI is one of 70 organizations that supports the manifesto.
DIS wins best demo award at ACM Multimedia 2022
The DIS group from CWI has received the demo award at ACM International Conference on Multimedia, with the paper “Mediascape XR: A cultural heritage experience in Social VR”.
NWO hangs out rainbow flag during Coming Out day
On 11 October, Coming Out day is celebrated. NWO/NWO-I celebrates this day by hanging out the rainbow flag. Léon Ouwerkerk, P&O advisor at CWI and LGBTI+ coordinator for the entire of NWO and NWO-I, has written a personal column about Coming Out day. (also in Dutch)
CWI and IDEAS-NCBR sign MoU
CWI and IDEAS NCBR, the Polish centre of innovation in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
Fine-Grained Temporal Emotion Recognition in Video
CWI PhD student Tianyi Zhang will defend his PhD thesis "On Fine-Grained Temporal Emotion Recognition in Video: How to Trade off Recognition Accuracy with Annotation Complexity?" at TU Delft 3 October.
Gilles Brassard wins 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Gilles Brassard, Charles H. Bennett, David Deutsch and Peter Shor were awarded the world’s largest science prize for their foundational work in quantum information. Brassard is currently hosted at QuSoft at NWO institute CWI.
How quantum mechanics threatens our digital lives – and makes them safer
Much of the work of Serge Fehr (CWI and Leiden University) is abstract and theoretical and comprehensible to very few people. But his work helps make the digital world safer. He will explain more in his inaugural lecture at Leiden University on 26 September.
Ute Ebert elected as AGU Fellow
The American Geophysical Union announced that Ute Ebert (CWI and TU/e) was elected as an AGU Fellow for crucial theoretical, numerical and experimental insights on lightning and related sciences.
Shaping the technologies that impact our democracy
Misinformation is just one of many problems we face with the rise of artificial intelligence. Technology is impacting our democracy in an unprecedented way. That is why CWI, the university of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences started the AI, Media & Democracy Lab.
Banking on Domain Knowledge for Faster Transactions
Tim Soethout of CWI's Software Analysis and Transformation group defended his thesis at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Best presentation award for Francien Bossema at AmeriDendro
The prize was awarded for the presentation 'Applications and advances in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) for dendrochronology'.
Two Best Paper Awards for CWI at GECCO
Researchers from CWI and Leiden University were awarded two best paper awards at the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO) 2022.
Intel Award for Marten van Dijk and colleagues
Test of Time Award for a single-chip secure processor where the underlying system software is untrusted.
CWI Fellow co-edits book about Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
In July 2022, the book 'Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: His Life, Work, and Legacy', edited by CWI Fellow Krzysztof Apt and Tony Hoare, was published. From '52-'62, Turing Award winner Dijkstra worked at CWI (then MC), where he designed a.o. the shortest path algorithm used in all navigation systems.
In Memoriam Martin Kersten
Sadly, Prof. Dr. M.L. (Martin) Kersten (1953-2022), fellow of CWI and emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Amsterdam, passed away on 6 July 2022
Best Paper at AAMAS conference 2022
Tim Baarslag and Thimjo Koça from CWI’s Intelligent and Autonomous Systems group have been awarded a best paper award at the AAMAS conference.
CWI presents its Strategic Plan 2022-2027
CWI presents its new research focus areas and concrete plans to strengthen its role in the national mathematics and computer science communities.
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