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CWI Database Architecture researchers awarded with best paper runner up award at SSDBM

Researchers of CWI's Database Architecture group have been awarded with a best paper runner up award at 29th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2017) in Chicago. The researchers received the award for their paper 'Multi Hypothesis CSV-parsing' by authors Till Döhmen, Hannes Mühleisen and Peter Boncz.

CWI en Databricks lanceren samenwerking in aanwezigheid van minister Kamp

Op 25 april 2017 lanceren CWI en het big data analyse- en data science software-bedrijf Databricks een nieuwe samenwerking. Dat gebeurt bij de Hannover Messe, in aanwezigheid van Minister Kamp van Economische Zaken.

CWI & Databricks: Big Data in Amsterdam

Amsterdam wants to play a leading international role in the development of data science research. In Big Data Amsterdam, Financieele Dagblad journalist Job Woudt interviews Amsterdam Data Science researchers on the functioning of the ecosystem where companies and knowledge institutions in Amsterdam collaborate in the area of Big Data.

Making a tedious search a breeze: parallel query execution in multi-core systems

When you request information from a huge database, you might want to grab a cup of coffee and sit back, because your request may take a while. How can we optimize searches for information, specifically in a multi-core processing unit? The answer may lie in parallel queries, which run simultaneously on different processors.

Martin Kersten appointed ACM Fellow

CWI fellow Martin Kersten has been appointed as one of the 2016 fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

CWI ontwikkelt nieuwe technieken voor verkennen data

CWI develops new tools for data exploration

PhD student Thibault Sellam from CWI developed new tools to explore large databases. It allows explorative users to find interesting information hidden inside a database, with little or no knowledge of the data beforehand.

Martin Kersten receives 2016 SIGMOD Systems Award

Martin Kersten is the recipient of the 2016 SIGMOD Systems Award for the design and implementation of MonetDB, a pioneering main-memory database system based on a columnar data organization.

CWI spin-off MonetDB Solutions helps building ExaNeSt platform

In a new EU project MonetDB Solutions helps to showcase the future generation ExaNeSt platform, which consists of up to 10 million of low-cost and low-energy ARM processors. The CWI spin-off will evaluate the platform with extremely compute-intensive big data analytics applications.

Efficient method to make changes in compressed database

PhD student Sándór Héman from CWI developed a new method to compress a large database, allowing for a much faster transport of data from storage to processor. Furthermore he developed efficient algorithms to make changes within such a compressed storage layout.

Tracing Stars with MonetDB in the Cloud

The Dutch database technology company MonetDB Solutions and CWI will develop new techniques to facilitate the storage and analysis of the vast data volumes from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope. The project will be funded by a grant in the AstroCompute in the Cloud program of the SKA Organization (SKAO) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Hannes Mühleisen in media about insecure wifi in trains

Hannes Mühleisen, a postdoc researcher at CWI, recently found that he could see too much information from the wifi network in NS trains, which are passing close by his home - a houseboat in Amsterdam near Central Station. The network information is not encrypted.

Veni grants for Daniel Dadush and Hannes Mühleisen

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni grants to Daniel Dadush and Hannes Mühleisen of CWI. The funding allows these researchers, who have recently obtained their PhD, to conduct independent research and develop their ideas for a period of three years.

Big Data at High Performance

Computer hardware systems have evolved from monolithic machines in which each component performed one specific task, to complex systems with a wide range of heterogeneous components such as spinning disks, SSDs, RAM, and CPUs.

CWI spin-off MonetDB Solutions teams up with Numascale

CWI spin-off company MonetDB Solutions and the Norwegian appliance company Numascale have joined forces to develop database appliances that enable companies and organizations to perform easier and more affordable big data analytics.

Stefan Manegold benoemd tot hoogleraar Universiteit Leiden

Stefan Manegold appointed professor at Leiden University

Starting from 15 September 2014, Stefan Manegold, of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, has been appointed Professor for Data Management at the Faculty of Science of Leiden University.

Internationale innovatieprijs naar Martin Kersten

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.

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.

CWI in Europees onderzoek precisielandbouw

Steeds vaker worden aardobservatiedata door organisaties als ESA en NASA publiek beschikbaar gesteld. In combinatie met andere gegevens kan deze data tot nieuwe waardevolle toepassingen leiden.

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.

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).

Researchers develop online fire monitoring service

In cooperation with European research partners, researchers of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam have developed the technical infrastructure of an online fire monitoring service.

Editie.NL reportage "Emoties, zo 2014"

RTL4 maakte voor Editie.NL de reportage "Emoties, zo 2014", over de emotieherkennings-demo die binnen het COMMIT/ onderzoeksprogramma SWEET is onwikkeld. Voor het SWEET project heeft de Database Architectures groep van CWI de database technologie geleverd. Alle data die door de verschillende sensors wordt gegenereerd, wordt verzameld in de door CWI ontwikkelde MonetDB database.

CWI team wins recommendation challenge

Researchers Arjen de Vries, Alan Said and Alejandro Bellogin from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam, scored the highest ranking in the news recommendation challenge that is part of the ACM Recommender System Conference.

Human Brain Project started

The Human Brain Project, the world’s most ambitious neuroscience project, is underway. Scientists from the 135 partner institutions, co-funded by the EU with an estimated budget of €1.2 billion, are meeting in Switzerland for the official launch. Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) is one of the partners from the Netherlands and will work on management and analysis of big data streams.

Peter Boncz Special Professor at VU University Amsterdam

Peter Boncz of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has been appointed Special Professor of Large-Scale Analytical Data Management at the Faculty of Sciences of VU University Amsterdam as of 1 October 2013.