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Nature Genetics article: Genome of the Netherlands developed
In a large-scale research project under supervision of University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) researchers have developed a genetic profile of the Netherlands. The researchers have mapped the DNA sequences of 250 family trios, consisting of two parents and one child, across the Netherlands.
International innovation award to Martin Kersten
Martin Kersten, Research fellow at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) is awarded the 2014 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, the most prestigious prize for researchers who have made innovative and significant contributions to database systems and databases.
CWI researchers develop new method of computation
Catalytic memory is the new term for a method of computing whereby the computer carries out a computation using memory that it is already filled with data, returning it to its original state after use.
Towards a European Smart Energy System
In the European vision document “Towards a European Smart Energy System”, researchers Han La Poutré and Felix Claessen from the research group Intelligent Systems at the Centrum Wiskunde & Infor
CWI improves discharge models for technical applications
Pulsed electric discharges have important applications, such as purifying polluted air in highway tunnels, disinfection and wound healing. As physical and chemical processes in pulsed discharges occur on a large variety of scales, it is difficult to model them.
Modelling impatient Internet users
Impatience of Internet users is a major problem for its quality of service. A vast amount of data is wasted on transfers that are aborted before completion. CWI researchers have developed new models that incorporate this user impatience.
Database Indexes for the Big Data Era
Researchers of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam have developed new methods to index huge databases. These space efficient indexes are lightweight to build and maintain and grow less than linear with the size of the data sets.
Vconect project streams concert to remote audiences (video)
Together with partners of the Vconect project, researchers at CWI demonstrated how group video communications can be used to make remote audiences experience a performance as though they are actually present.
Who's afraid of Object Algebras?
Object algebras are a simple technique that solves a long-standing problem of extensibility in programming languages, called the expression problem. CWI-researcher Tijs van der Storm presented the technique at Joy of Coding 2014
Annual Report 2013 available
CWI in European research project precision farming
Increasingly, remote sensing data is made publicly available by organizations such as ESA and NASA. Based on these data, and in combination with other sources, new valuable applications can be created.
CWI researchers in European RETHINK big project
Every two days, we create the equivalent of all the data generated throughout human history up until 2003. The intelligent use of this data shows enormous potential for generating new knowledge and other related benefits for business, science and society.
Four Dutch contributions to ERCIM News 97 on Cyber-Physical Systems
ERCIM News No. 97 - with a special theme on Cyber-Physical Systems - was published online on 11 April.
CWI in wetenschapsprogramma ‘De Kennis van Nu’
Ongelukken gebeuren niet random, daar zit een patroon in. Door gebruik te maken van historische data kunnen beschikbare ambulances slimmer worden ingezet.
Daan Crommelin professor of Numerical Analysis and Dynamical Systems
Daan Crommelin has been appointed as professor by special appointment of Numerical Analysis and Dynamical Systems at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science. The chair was established on behalf of the Stichting voor Hoger Onderwijs in de Toegepaste Wiskunde.
Arnold Smeulders member of Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
Arnold Smeulders (COMMIT/, UvA and CWI) has been invited to become a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences
CWI and MonetDB in Big Data research project
Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) has received a grant award from NWO for a joint proposal with Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), CWI spin-off MonetDB (Amsterdam), Tata Steel (IJmuiden) and BMW (Munich).
CWI pioneer in implementing DNSSEC at Science Park
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has played a leading role in the implementation of DNSSEC at the Amsterdam Science Park. The project was a joint initiative from CWI, AMOLF and Nikhef.
Honorable mention Arnoud den Boer
Arnoud den Boer, former PhD student at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam) has received an honorable mention from the jury of the VVS/OR van Zwet Award for his thesis 'Dynamic Pricing and Learning'.
CWI congratulates Web and W3C with their anniversaries
"Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam congratulates the Web with its 25th anniversary and the World Wide Web Consortium with its 20 years jubilee.
Oud-MC-onderzoeker en schrijver Hugo Brandt Corstius overleden
Schrijver, columnist en voormalig MC/CWI-onderzoeker Hugo Brandt Corstius is op 28 februari 2014 op 78-jarige leeftijd overleden.
Mathematician John Norman Mather receives Brouwer Medal 2014
The Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (KWG) awards the Brouwer Medal 2014 to American mathematician John N. Mather (1942) from Princeton University. The medal is awarded only once every three years to a mathematician of the highest international level.
CWI becomes .nl-registrar
On 18 February 2014, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, became a .nl registrar.
Roeland Merks appointed professor at Leiden University
As of January 15, 2014, Roeland Merks of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam was appointed Professor Multiscale Mathematical Biology at the Mathematical Institute in Leiden.
Theatre play with actors in two locations
Together with partners of the Vconect project, researchers at CWI demonstrated how group video communications can be used to enable a theatre play performed between two different locations, and experienced live by a remote audience over super-fast broadband.
New models for improving service levels in large scale ICT systems
ICT systems, such as international on-line banking and social media, have evolved into global-scale service chains and have become increasingly complex.
Five articles from the Netherlands in ERCIM News 96 on Linked Open Data
ERCIM News No. 96 - with a special theme on Linked Open Data - was published online at the end of January and in print in February 2014. There were as much as five contributions from the Netherlands to this publication.
CWI develops tool for creation of personal video stories
Researchers at CWI have developed software that can automatically create a personalized video story by re-mixing material captured by multiple people at an event. The project, called MyVideos, enables users to share stories from small-scale events with friends and relatives that might not have been there. Researcher Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães will defend his thesis ‘Socially-Aware Multimedia Authoring’ on 28 January 2014 at the VU University Amsterdam.
Valedictory speech 'The Software Revolution' by Paul Klint
On 22 January 2014 Paul Klint, research fellow at CWI and professor Software Engineering at the University of Amsterdam, will retire to the position of emeritus professor. The title of his valedictory speech is 'The Software Revolution'.
Bruno Loff defends thesis on computational complexity
CWI researcher Bruno Loff has developed new techniques for determining the complexity of problems that can be solved by a computer. Studying computational complexity provides insight in the inherent difficulty of different types of problems, and the amount of computing power necessary to solve them.
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