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Modeling and Optimization of Network Assisted Video Streaming
Jan Willem Kleinrouweler of CWI's DIS group, investigates how to optimise the quality of video streaming in his thesis.
Amsterdam coalition publishes special AI edition in New Scientist
To highlight the importance of AI to a broader public, the Amsterdam coalition ‘AI technology for people’ has published a special AI edition with New Scientist magazine. The AI edition showcases some of the research, teaching and innovation in AI being carried out across the Amsterdam region.
CWI DIS Group's 'Lit Lace' project featured at Dutch Design Week
'Lit Lace', a collaborative project between the CWI's Distributed & Interactive Systems Group and the British Smart Fabric Designers Company Sara+Sarah is being featured in this year's Dutch Design Week.
Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) Group Awarded Best Paper Award at IEEE TCSVT 2020
Groundbreaking work that explores how new 3D media formats can be used for real-time remote collaboration, has been honoured with an 2020 IEEE CASS award.
Pablo Cesar Appointed Professor of Human-Centered Multimedia Systems
Pablo Cesar has been appointed Professor of Human-Centered Multimedia Systems in the Department of Intelligent Systems (INSY) at TU Delft.
Doorbraak in energiezuinige kunstmatige intelligentie
Dankzij een wiskundige doorbraak kunnen toepassingen van kunstmatige intelligentie een factor honderd tot duizend energiezuiniger worden. Daardoor wordt het mogelijk toepassingen bijvoorbeeld op een smartwatch of een smartphone te laten draaien, terwijl dat tot op heden in de cloud moest gebeuren.
Breakthrough in energy efficient artificial intelligence
Thanks to a mathematical breakthrough, AI applications can become a hundred to a thousand times more energy efficient. This will make it possible to put much more elaborate AI in chips, enabling applications to run on a smartphone or smartwatch where before this was done in the cloud.
QuSoft celebrates five years of cutting-edge quantum algorithm and software research
After five years of close collaboration within QuSoft, CWI and the University of Amsterdam sign an agreement that consolidates their cooperation.
CWI works on Next Generation Internet
The Next Generation Internet POINTER fund has awarded CWI a grant to work on architectural renovation for the next generation Internet to replace BSD-style socket technology. The results will make a new generation of privacy-respecting, trustworthy and reliable Internet applications possible.
CWI PhD graduate founded record IPO company Snowflake
Data-warehouse company Snowflake went public this week, reaching an extraordinary market value of $70.4 billion, the largest IPO for a software company ever. Snowflake offers cloud-based data warehousing, whose data storage and query engine contain techniques pioneered in CWI’s Data Architectures group. One of the PhD graduates who developed that technology, former CWI researcher Marcin Żukowski, is co-founder of Snowflake.
Pablo Cesar awarded Dutch Prize for ICT research
Last week Pablo Cesar was awarded the Dutch Prize for ICT research during a festive ceremony. NWO released a video about Cesars work, in which he explains the focus and importance of his research.
Call for nominations: Van Wijngaarden Awards 2021
With the Van Wijngaarden Awards, CWI honours mathematicians and computer scientists who have made important contributions to their research field. A call for nominations is now open for the 2021 awarding.
Cells ‘walk’ to firm ground
A new mathematical model may explain how body cells get their shapes and what makes them move within a tissue. The model provides fundamental knowledge for applications in tissue engineering, amongst other things. The research was executed by Roeland Merks and Lisanne Rens, who were previously affiliated with CWI's Scientific Computing group.
Léo Ducas wins ERC Starting Grant for quantum-safe cryptography
Léo Ducas from CWI's Cryptology Group is awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million euro for research on quantum-safe cryptography. Most of today’s cryptographic methods will not be secure against attacks based on possible future quantum computers.
Best Poster Prize for Allard Hendriksen
Allard Hendriksen, researcher at CWI’s Computational Imaging group was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the “Mathematics of Machine Learning” symposium.
Ton de Kok appointed new director of CWI
The board of NWO-I, the institute organisation of NWO, appoints Prof. Ton de Kok as director of CWI. On 1 October 2020, De Kok will succeed the current director, Prof. Jos Baeten, who has led the institute since 2011 and will retire.
Gearing up for QCrypt 2020
The latest top results in quantum cryptography will be shared during the upcoming tenth anniversary edition of the QCrypt conference. Welcoming hundreds of visitors from science and industry, QCrypt 2020 will take place as an online event, jointly organized by CWI and the University of Amsterdam.
CWI researchers develop new mathematical framework to explain the emergence of large blackouts
The study shows that the statistical distribution of blackout sizes can be linked to city sizes. Bert Zwart and his colleagues indicate that it might be more effective to help consumers react to a blackout instead of performing network upgrades.
Leo Ducas (CWI Cryptology Group) involved in NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Finalists
In its process to develop the first cryptographic standard to protect sensitive electronic data against the threat of quantum computers, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the finalists. Léo Ducas from CWI's Cryptology group is involved in several finalists of this standardization process.
Daniel Dadush and Samarth Tiwari receive Best Paper Award at CCC'20
Daniel Dadush and Samarth Tiwari from CWI's Networks and Optimization research group receive the Best Paper Award at the Computational Complexity Conference 2020 for their work 'On the Complexity of Branching Proofs'.
Balancing uncertainties in future electricity markets
The steady embrace of sustainable energy brings along new challenges. For example, the supply and demand of energy will fluctuate much more than with energy from fossil sources. PhD student Georgios Methenitis designed several ways to find a balance in this, providing building blocks of future energy markets that guarantee efficient outcomes for all users.
In Memoriam Willem van Zwet (1934-2020)
Prof. Willem van Zwet from Leiden University was advisor to the Mathematisch Centrum (now called CWI) from 1965-1984, chair of CWI’s Science Committee and Member of the Board. Throughout his career, Van Zwet played a key role in academic mathematical statistics in the Netherlands.
EU Horizon 2020 grant award for realtime CT imaging project ‘xCting’
Project ‘xCTing’ from CWI’s Computational Imaging (CI) group and partners, has been awarded a grant from the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Innovative Training Networks programme.
CWI develops New Techniques for Real-time Tomographic Reconstruction
Jan-Willem Buurlage of CWI's Computational Imaging group introduces various techniques that significantly reduce the time it takes to run conventional tomographic reconstruction algorithms without affecting image quality. He will defend his thesis at 1 July.
CWI introduces new design methodology for reliable and trustworthy software
To make the development process of software quick, efficient, reliable and automated, researcher Vlad-Nicolae Şerbănescu (CWI and LIACS) studied how to unify modelling and programming languages for reliable and trustworthy software.
ICT research after corona
In an interview with the Dutch ICT magazine AG Connect, CWI director Jos Baeten outlines how the corona crisis affects ICT research. Besides the difficulties and downright misery that result from Covid-19, there’s an upside, says Baeten. “It has a positive aspect: everyone is committed to resolve this crisis.”
TONG XUE, JIE LI AND PABLO CESAR (DIS) AWARDED BEST DEMO AWARD AT ACM IMX 2020
On June 19th 2020, the demo paper “A Social VR Clinic for Knee Arthritis Patients with Haptics” was awarded the Best Demo Award at the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experience (ACM IMX) 2020.
Jack Jansen (DIS) Awarded Best Demo Award at ACM MMsys 2020
On June 11th 2020 Jack Jansen of CWI's DIS group won the Best Demo paper Award at the ACM MMSys 2020 conference.
Marie Curie ITN grant awarded to ALPACA network
Recently, CWI and others were awarded an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN) consortium grant for ALPACA –'Algorithms for PAngenome Computational Analysis'. The research project involves a total funding of 3.67 million euros.
Innovation fund North Holland supports CWI startup Photosynthetic B.V.
Photosynthetic B.V., a new CWI startup, has received a convertible loan of €300.000 from Innovation Fund North Holland. Photosynthetic is a deep-tech startup working on a hardware solution for the microfabrication industry.
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