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Lynda Hardman receives IPN Distinguished Service Award at ICT.OPEN

During the plenary opening of ICT.OPEN on 15 April, Lynda Hardman received the IPN Distinguished Service Award 2026 from ICT-Research Platform Netherlands. The award recognizes a person who has provided outstanding service …

Lynda Hardman poses with her award together with another award winner.

CWI’s DIS group showcases human-computer interaction research at CHI 2026

The Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at CWI has multiple contributions at the ACM CHI 2026 conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) in Barcelona. The conference, recognized as …

Laura Hollink appointed as Professor Responsible AI in Culture and Media

Utrecht University has appointed Laura Hollink as professor of Responsible AI in Culture and Media, effective 1 March 2026. Her chair focuses on uncovering bias in AI systems, such as recommendation algorithms, …

Laura Hollink

Human-centric modeling of 3D data: the future of 3D video compression?

How we can model the quality of 3D content from a user viewpoint, so it can be compressed and streamed without noticeable impact? This question is at the core of Xuemei Zhou's …

Cover of thesis of Xuemei Zhou

Dutch consortium Stage IX awarded grant to transform Immersive Art

A grant of €1.3M has been awarded to Stage IX: a consortium in which the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at CWI collaborates with Ruimtetijd, 4DSOUND, Amsterdam University of the Arts, …

Stage IX group photo

Han La Poutré new President of ERCIM

Han La Poutré (CWI) has been elected President of ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. His term has started this month.

Han La Poutré, 14 January 2026. Picture made by Ivar Pel.

Tidying up while you search: CWI paper Database Cracking wins CIDR Test of Time Award

A 2007 publication titled Database Cracking has received a Test of Time Award from CIDR, the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research. Authors Stefan Manegold, the late Martin Kersten, and Stratos Idreos …

Stratos Idreos and Stefan Manegold are awarded the CIDR Test of Time Award at a conference in the US

Exploring hidden links in neuroscience literature with augmented reality

Before conducting a costly experiment, neuroscientists need to identify potentially useful hypotheses. In her PhD, Boyu Xu shows how augmented reality can help scan vast amounts of neuroscience literature and highlight less …

Portrait of futuristic researcher using the augmented reality vr glasses with hologram graphics for viewing results of research in laboratory.