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4th Edition of Spring School on Social XR, ACM Seasonal School

More than thirty students from various disciplines, including technology, the social sciences, and the humanities participated the fourth edition of the Spring School on Social XR. The event took place from 20 …

Group photo Spring school 2026

Quantum Application Development Enters a New Stage for QAL Consortium Members

After 5 years of end-user driven quantum computing application development, the Quantum Application Lab (QAL) members will pursue different approaches and emphases in their mission towards developing useful quantum computing applications.

NWO grant for RECAB to share research findings and reduce energy consumption

The RECAB (Reducing Energy Consumption in Algorithm Benchmarking) project was awarded with funding from NWO’s Sustainable Science call. This project, led by CWI’s Evolutionary Intelligence (EI) group, aims to develop a tool …

NWO grant for sustainable scientific computing with ECO-COMPASS

The (Energy-Conscious Computational Algorithms & Sustainable Science) has been awarded a grant from NWO’s Sustainable Science Fund call. ECO-COMPASS is a collaboration between CWI and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science …

Tristan van Leeuwen sitting in front of a computer, studying the x ray image of the inside of an apple

CWI contributes AI expertise to national healthcare consortium

CWI's Evolutionary Intelligence (EI) group is joining a large national research consortium that will develop artificial intelligence to support diagnosis in general practice. The ten-year programme Trinitas HORIZON is led by UMC …

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.

Royal Decoration for former CWI colleague Jaap Akkerhuis, presented by the Mayor of Diemen, Erik Boog (left).

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 …

Piet Beertema behind is computer. Picture: Pieter Boersma for Intermagazine, 1985

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 …

Chair of SEN symposium announcing award