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Monique Laurent appointed professor at Tilburg University
Monique Laurent of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has been appointed professor of Combinatorial Optimization at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Tilburg University.
Improved lower bounds for chromatic number
Researcher Fernando de Oliveira Filho of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam improved the lower bounds on the chromatic number. He received his PhD degree on December 1 for his thesis 'New Bounds for Geometric Packing and Coloring via Harmonic Analysis and Optimization'.
Large STW grant for CWI research on discharges
In November, Ute Ebert (CWI) received a large STW grant for three research projects on discharges. These projects are about X-rays and gamma radiation from lightning, air purification with discharges for highway tunnels and hospitals, and environmentally friendly high voltage switches for power plants.
Mathematics helps improving biological models
Many phenomena in life sciences, economics, physics and engineering can be described with mathematical models called rational systems. PhD student Jana Nĕmcová of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam contributed to the theory of these systems in her dissertation ‘Rational Systems in Control and System Theory’.
More insight in complex phenomena with new methods from CWI researcher Lorenzo Sella
Many natural processes and even modern human-designed systems exhibit very complicated behaviour. Lorenzo Sella of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has developed new methods to obtain a better understanding of these.
Best Paper Award for Peter Bosman
24 November 2009 At the BNAIC 2009, the annual Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Peter Bosman
Better image quality for virtual reality with computer science
Less image delays, less 'image echoes' and more fluid movements in virtual reality (VR): this is all possible with the research of Ferdi Smit of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the Dutch national research center for mathematics and computer science in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
New book published from Pablo Cesar: The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward Interactivity
TV viewing has undergone a tremendous change during the past twenty years. Originally, TV viewing was a social activity, fostering social interaction with communities of viewers. A host of technical developments has caused TV viewing to become more personalised, but also less communal.
CWI plays leading role in research programme NCSB
The Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology (NCSB) officially started its research program on 15 October.
New simulations explain huge lightning flashes
With new simulations Alejandro Luque and Ute Ebert (CWI) explained huge lightning flashes above clouds: sprites. They published their results in Nature Geoscience, which appeared online on 25 October 2009.
Mathematics for Dry Feet
On September 1st Joris Bierkens joined the Center of Mathematics & Computer Science (CWI) as an assistant in the Deltares funded project 'Mathematics for Dike Height Control'.
Jan H. van Schuppen Appointed as Full Professor TU Delft
Starting from 1 September 2009 Jan H. van Schuppen (CWI) has been appointed as professor Mathematical System Theory at the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the TU Delft.
New array database technology for scientists
Faster database technology with MonetDB/X100
VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award for hardware-aware database technology
Researchers Peter Boncz, Stefan Manegold, and Martin Kersten of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam won the prestigious VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award on August 27.
Ingres and CWI spin-off VectorWise announce dramatic database performance improvement
Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company, announced on 29th July the Ingres VectorWise project. This is a collaboration between Ingres, VectorWise - a spin-off company from the leading database research team at CWI in Amsterdam - along with ongoing support from Intel.
D. Wojtczak receives Best paper award at ICALP 2009
Following the decision of the programme committee of ICALP 2009 Track B, Dominik Wojtczak (a former PhD student at University of Edinburgh, currently a postdoc at CWI) together with Michael Ummels (PhD student at RWTH Aachen) has won the Best Student ICALP Paper award of Track B for their paper titled: "The Complexity of Nash Equilibria in Simple Stochastic Multiplayer Games".
Lynda Hardman appointed distinguished professor Multimedia Interaction
Lynda Hardman is appointed distinguished professor Multimedia Interaction.
Rascal for Easy Meta-Programming
Rascal is a new meta-programming language that was launched by CWI at the Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering, 6-11 July, in Braga, Portugal.
CWI database team wins Best Paper Runner Up at SIGMOD 2009
The database team of CWI received the SIGMOD Best Paper Award Runner Up on July 1, during the 35th SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD'09) in Providence, Rhode Island (USA).
Software agents arrange freight more efficiently
Traffic jams regularly bring Dutch highways to a halt. Freight is often a major cause of such bottlenecks. Interestingly enough almost one third of all trucks drive around empty. PhD student Valentin Robu of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research center for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, examined the efficiency in logistics and saw room for improvement through the use of intelligent software agents.
French-Dutch IT co-operation started with ATEAMS project
New chair of the governing board Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Dr. ir. P.J.M. van Laarhoven was appointed by the General Board of NWO as new chair of the governing board of the Stichting Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam per 1 May, 2009. He succeeds Prof. dr. P.W. Adriaans. Peter van Laarhoven is Group Strategy Director at TNT in Hoofddorp.
Mathematics makes wireless networks more efficient
How many cellphone masts should be placed in order to reach everyone? If there are ten additional stations eligible for grants, where can these be placed best? PhD student Erik Jan van Leeuwen of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica(CWI) in Amsterdam described the problems with geometric models.
Automatic extension database systems with new Armada Model
Databases are getting bigger and bigger: an increase of data in the order of gigabytes or even terabytes is not unusual anymore. What to do if a database no longer fits on one computer? Could you make a database flexible and scaling independently with any expected growth? Fabian Groffen, PhD of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, developed the Armada-model.
Turing Award winner Richard Karp speaking at CWI
On June 4 Turing Award winner Richard Karp (USA) spoke at the CWI on his recent research and his vision n the computational biology. He lectured during the annual CWI Lectures in Mathematics and Computer Science, with this year’s theme "Starting Life Sciences at CWI”. With this day the start of a new Life Sciences research at the CWI in January 2009 was celebrated.
New Google service 'Rich Snippets' based CWI-technology
Google introduced a new enhancement called Rich Snippets in May 2009, giving searchers new ways to filter results and adding new types of data to the search results themselves. The feature is based on technologies including one designed at CWI: RDFa.
AT5 television at CWI: 'Shorter waiting times with mathematics'
Television channel AT5 interviewed Wemke van der Weij (CWI) on 6 May about her PhD research at CWI: 'Shorter waiting times with mathematics'. Watch the dutch movie (from the AT5 website):
Willem Hundsdorfer appointed professor of Numerical Mathematics
CWI researcher Willem Hundsdorfer has been appointed part-time professor at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. As of May 1, 2009, he holds the chair of Numerical Mathematics at the Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science.
New mechanism for Internet security wins Best Paper Award
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