News — CWI Amsterdam

New formal methods for software reconfiguration in cloud computing

Spinque wins cross-lingual PatOlympics

During the recently held PatOlympics (June 2011), an international competition between researchers competing interactively for locating the best search results in patent literature, Spinque, a spin-off company of the Centrum Wiskunde &a

Stratos Idreos wins 2011 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award

Leslie Lamport lectures at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

The renowned computer scientist Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Corporation, USA) gives a lecture at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam on 16 June. Lamport is known for his work in the fields of distributed systems and program verification.

Jos Baeten new general director of CWI

CWI Lectures 2011 on new technologies in automation

SIAG/Optimization Prize for kissing number research

The prestigious SIAG/Optimization Prize has been awarded to Frank Vallentin (Delft University of Technology and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) and Christine Bachoc (University of Bordeaux) for their research on the kissing number.

Simple and secure identification method for RFID chips wins Best Paper Award

CWI improves coordination technology to combine large internet services

Mathematician Lex Schrijver receives honorary doctorate

Inaugural lecture Jason Frank: The Nature of Prediction (and the Prediction of Nature)

Best Student Paper Award for Wagner Fortes

CWI starts new research on smart grids

Lynda Hardman head of EIT ICT Labs' research action line 'ICT-mediated Human Activity'

Ronald de Wolf appointed Professor at University of Amsterdam

CWI to build superfast energy-efficient database machine

Eickhoff and de Vries win Microsoft Bing Most Innovative Award

Automatic image recognition technology spots endangered leatherback sea turtle

Prof. dr. Jan G. Verwer (1946-2011)

Jan Verwer passed away unexpectedly on 16 February 2011, at his home in Heiloo.

Mathematics helps to understand random processes in living cells

Van Wijngaarden Award 2011 for Éva Tardos and John Butcher

European partnership for digital boost in biodiversity research

Poster Award for Willem Haverkort at Physics@FOM congress

Nature-article: Visualization of individual atoms inside tiny particles

CWI spin-off company VectorWise sold to Ingres Corporation

The high-tech spin-off company VectorWise from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has been sold to Ingres Corporation (USA), a leading open source database management company.