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Stefan Manegold wins 2020 SIGMOD Contributions Award
CWI researcher Stefan Manegold has been awarded the 2020 SIGMOD Contributions Award. The award recognizes his innovative work in the data management community to encourage scientific reproducibility.
Guidelines for accessible websites, online documents and apps now available in Dutch
The official translation into Dutch of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1), required for all public sector body websites as of 23 September 2020, is now online. Many stakeholders, including Accessibility and the W3C Benelux Office (hosted by CWI), contributed to this.
CWI’s 25th spin-off develops software of the future
Swat.engineering generates new and transforms existing software based on domain knowledge.
New lectorate Applied Quantum Computing
CWI and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences jointly establish a new special lectorate in Applied Quantum Computing. The lectorate supports QuSoft in bridging the gap fundamental quantum research and quantum applications.
CWI’s DIS Group Organized the ACM CHI2020 Social VR Workshop on VR Platform during COVID-19
Jie Li and Pablo Cesar, from the Distributed Interactive Systems group (DIS) at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), have successfully organized the ACM CHI2020 Social VR Workshop on a social VR platform called Mozilla Hubs.
Making the invisible visible
CT machines are becoming the standard tool for looking inside objects of all kinds in research and industry. The FleX-ray Lab at CWI is making this type of imaging more accessible to math and computer science researchers. It's also drawing interest from the art, history, and the social sciences community.
Critically assessing AI tools and cultural data in digital humanities
While AI and big data are increasingly proving themselves as useful tools for humanities research, better techniques are needed to understand their limitations. In her PhD thesis, CWI researcher Myriam Traub calls for more multidisciplinary collaboration to attain deeper knowledge about this.
CWI develops new mathematical techniques for optimal relocation and dispatch of fire trucks
On Monday 11 May Dmitrii Usanov will defend his PhD thesis. His research focused on dispatching and relocating resources in the emergency domain and the reduction of response times.
Interview with Dijkstra Fellow David Chaum
David Chaum (1955) was awarded the Dijkstra Fellowship for his groundbreaking work in privacy and cryptology and the development of digital currency, which laid the technological basis for blockchain and bitcoin. This interview appeared in CWI’s staff magazine in April 2020.
Surjya Ghosh selected to participate in the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Surjya Ghosh of CWI's DIS group has been selected to participate in the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), to be held from 19 to 24 September 2021, in Heidelberg, Germany.
Peter Bosman awarded grant of 1M euros from NWO’s Open Technology Programme
Peter Bosman’s project proposal DAEDALUS (Distributed and Automated Evolutionary Deep Architecture Learning with Unprecedented Scalability) has been granted by NWO TTW in its Open Technology Programme.
Harry Buhrman joins Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Quantum researcher Harry Buhrman joins the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The KNAW is the most relevant Dutch society of top scientists. Together with seventeen other researchers, Buhrman will be installed as a new Academy member.
Betere games met live programmeren - Impact van veranderingen sneller inzichtelijk
Het maken van goede games met interessante spelervaringen is moeilijk. Riemer van Rozen legt in AG Connect van april 2020 uit hoe met een domeinspecifieke programmeertaal voor games (DSL) gamedesigners sneller betere games kunnen ontwerpen door de mogelijkheid om live te programmeren.
€1.5 million European grant for mathematics consortium NETWORKS
The NETWORKS consortium can now continue growing thanks to a €1.5 million grant from the European Union’s Horizon2020 programme.
DIS AT CHI 2020
Research carried out by the Distributed and Interactive Systems from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has resulted in several contributions to this year's ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Smart water use technology receives innovation grant
CWI spin-off Seita has been awarded an innovation grant to further develop its real-time water use analysis tools. The 200,000-euro grant allows Seita and its partners to enhance analysis of water use, using smart sensors connected to a cloud-based data platform. The grant was provided by the Dutch province of Noord-Holland.
NEW PROBABILISTIC TECHNIQUES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF ENERGY NETWORKS UNDER UNCERTAINTY
Tommaso Nesti, PhD student at CWI’s Stochastics group, has developed new mathematical techniques to help model, control and operate modern-day power grids in the presence of uncertainty.
CWI building temporarily closed for external visitors
Following national measures against the spread of the coronavirus, CWI closes its building for external visitors. These restrictions will remain in place at least until 28 April.
Artificial Intelligence by CWI and Amsterdam UMC proposes the best radiation treatment plans in clinical practice for the first time
CWI and Amsterdam UMC have developed software that helps radiation oncologists to make internal radiation treatment plans for prostate cancer. Today, the first patient was treated with a plan made with the help of this new AI technique.
Daniel Dadush receives prestigious Van Dantzig Prize
Daniel Dadush has been awarded the Van Dantzig Prize, which is considered the highest Dutch award in statistics and operations research. It is awarded by the VVSOR once every five years.
Ming Li and Paul Vitanyi's textbook on Kolmogorov complexity receives a 2020 McGuffey Longevity Award
Paul Vitányi (CWI) and Ming Li (University of Waterloo) have received one of seven 2020 McGuffey Longevity Awards from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association for 'An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications'.
CWI researchers involved in two NWO-Groot grants
In the NWO Open Competition ENW-GROOT programme, four CWI researchers received in total two grants to study machine learning and neural networks: Nikhil Bansal, Monique Laurent, Benjamin Sanderse and Leen Stougie.
Introducing Women In Quantum Development
Bringing women in quantum research together to form a professional and informal network. With that goal in mind, CWI researcher Stacey Jeffery and colleagues started the WIQD network. WIQD now aims to bring its mission into practice with a symposium for all quantum researchers in science, industry, and policy.
XML Prague Demo Prize for Steven Pemberton
In February Steven Pemberton won the Demo Prize at the XML Prague conference for his XForms demonstration "It's Conference Time!". XForms is a web technology and W3C standard, co-designed by Pemberton, for the declarative description of applications.
Software engineering makes games more exciting
Creating good games with interesting game experiences is difficult. Software engineer Riemer van Rozen developed a domain-specific programming language (DSL) for games that allows game designers to design better games, in a faster way.
Hoe risicovol is toerskiën?
Om het risico toerskiën duidelijker te krijgen, besloot PhD student Judith ter Schure haar toerskitochten te vergelijken met het dagelijks verkeer.
'Kwantumcomputing heeft juridisch kader nodig'
De ontwikkelingen in kwantumcomputers gaan hard. Hoe kunnen we ons voorbereiden op de gevolgen van deze nieuwe technologie? Joran van Apeldoorn en Ot van Daalen pleiten in AG Connect voor een Europees juridisch kader rondom kwantumcomputing.
CWI Starts Two Projects on Digital Humanities: TRACTION and MediaScape
The Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has obtained two projects in the area of digital humanities, at the crossroads between human-computer interaction and humanities: MediaScape and TRACTION.
Quantum computers solve convex optimization problems faster
The advantages and limitations of quantum computing over classic computing have become clearer once again. PhD candidate Joran van Apeldoorn shows that a specific type of optimization problem can be solved much faster by quantum computers.
New mathematical models for wind turbine load calculations
New mathematical models developed by PhD student Laurent van den Bos can help to determine the best possible way to establish new wind farms. His thesis received the predicate Cum Laude.
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