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CWI develops AI models inspired by the brain
How can we develop smarter AI that more closely resembles the human brain? Sanne van den Berg explored this question together with her supervisors Pieter Roelfsema and Sander Bohté in her thesis.

Peter Grünwald named IMS Fellow for foundational contributions to statistics
Senior researcher Peter Grünwald of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has been elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), a prestigious honour awarded to researchers who have made outstanding contributions …

Mastering Vision – How Inductive Biases Shape Mammalian Learning Efficiency
CWI project awarded in NWO Open Competition.

White paper highlights potential of brain-inspired computing
Recently, the white paper “Neuromorphic Computing in the Netherlands,” coordinated by Johan Mentink of Radboud University has been published. This paper underscores the country’s significant expertise in brain-inspired computing and advocates for …

New e-value even more flexible: significance level adjustable at a later stage
Paper by researcher Peter Grünwald published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

ERC Advanced Grant for Peter Grünwald for research on a revolutionary statistical theory
Peter Grünwald, senior researcher in the Machine Learning group of CWI and part-time full professor of Statistical Learning at Leiden University has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research on …

Making AI more energy efficient with neuromorphic computing
Twenty-five years of pioneering work in neuromorphic computing at CWI is now bearing fruit. Thanks to algorithmic breakthroughs in training spiking neural networks many AI-applications can become much more energy-efficient.

Revolutionizing statistics to tame the replication crisis
CWI researchers have developed a better measure for determining whether or not scientific results are statistically significant. This ‘E-value’, as it is called, replaces the commonly used but often problematic p-value.
