2021 News
UvA, HvA and CWI launch AI Media & Democracy Lab
How will AI and digital technologies transform democracy and the media? researchers from UvA, AUAS and CWI will collaborate with media partners, societal partners and the municipality of Amsterdam in the new AI, Media & Democracy Lab.
First prize for logistic innovation COVID-19 vaccination strategy
The jury was impressed by the submission titled ‘A fast and responsive supply chain’ by CWI (Rob van der Mei) and HvA (Dennis Moeke).
CWI Fellow Jos Baeten receives Royal decoration
For his extensive contributions to science, CWI Fellow and former director Jos Baeten has been awarded a Royal decoration. Baeten was appointed Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau. The awarding took place during CWI’s 75th anniversary event.
CWI anniversary magazine
Together with the Dutch edition of New Scientist, CWI proudly presents a one-off anniversary magazine. Featuring a wide variety of CWI research, the magazine provides a look behind the scenes of the institute. The magazine was officially launched during CWI’s 75th anniversary event.
CWI celebrates 75th anniversary
Today CWI celebrates its 75th anniversary. With a special online event we will look into the past and future of mathematics and computer science. Join our event and celebrate with us!
Guido Schäfer named professor by special appointment at UvA
Guido Schäfer has been named professor by special appointment of Algorithms, Optimization and Game Theory at the University of Amsterdam.
KUHN Award for Stochastics researchers
Naval Research Logistics (NRL) has awarded the Harald W. Kuhn Award 2020 to Bernard Zweers, Rob van der Mei and Sandjai Bhulai (VU) for their paper “Optimizing barge utilization in hinterland container transportation”.
Outsourcing computations to a quantum computer you can’t trust
Quantum computers hold great promise, but to what extent can we trust the outcome of these elusive machines? In her PhD thesis, Yfke Dulek investigates ways to delegate computations to a quantum computer, focussing on the question how trustworthy the outcomes will be. Her research could pave the way for creating security guarantees in quantum computing.
Bayesian learning from data: challenges, limitations and pragmatics
How do humans and computers learn from data? PhD student Rianne de Heide of CWI’s Machine Learning group explored Bayesian learning in specific.
Pieter Kleer wins Gijs de Leve Prize
Pieter Kleer, former PhD student of CWI, was awarded the Gijs de Leve Prize 2018-2020 for the best PhD thesis in in the area of Mathematics of Operations Research defended in the last three years.
CWI researchers analyze suicide prevention help calls during pandemic
Salim Salmi, PhD-student in CWI's Stochastics group, analyzed conversations between Stichting 113 Suicide Prevention caregivers and clients before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cum laude for optimization of hinterland transportation
At large deep-sea ports tens of thousands of containers are handled daily. PhD student Bernard Zweers of CWI's Stochastics group investigated how these containers can be transported to the hinterland as efficient as possible. He received a 'cum laude' degree for this PhD research.