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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.