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Dutch internet pioneer Jaap Akkerhuis knighted
Former CWI colleague Jaap Akkerhuis became a Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands: the highest civilian order of chivalry in the Netherlands.
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Forty years of .nl: how CWI helped shape the Dutch domain
Forty years ago, the Netherlands got its own country-code domain: .nl. Behind that seemingly technical suffix lies a piece of CWI history. The man behind the application, Piet Beertema, worked at CWI …
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Ten years of software engineering in the Netherlands
Just over a decade ago, VERSEN was founded: the Association for Software Engineering in the Netherlands. On 1 May, the annual SEN symposium for Dutch researchers in software engineering will mark this …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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, …
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