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Cor Baayen nominated as honorary member KWG
The Royal Dutch Mathematical Society KWG has nominated Cor Baayen as an honorary member. Baayen was scientific director of CWI from 1980 to 1994. He joined the institute in 1959 as a …
Andrew Tanenbaum elected Akademiehoogleraar
Andrew Tanenbaum has been elected Akademiehoogleraar by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences KNAW. Tanenbaum is considered one of the most influential computer scientists in the Netherlands. He is professor of Computer …
Ute Ebert wins Minerva Prize
CWI researcher Ute Ebert has won the Minerva Prize 2004. This was announced by the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter FOM on February 25. Ebert's publication was chosen unanimously out of …
NWO funds CWI projects on computational life science
The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO has awarded funding to three projects that involve CWI's Non-linear PDE group. This was announced in December 2003. The subsidies are part of NWO's Computational …
Arie van Deursen appointed professor
CWI researcher Arie van Deursen has been appointed professor of software engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science of Delft University of Technology. He took up his duties …
CWI co-hosts SIGIR 2007
The Netherlands have been selected to host SIGIR 2007. SIGIR is the major international conference on information retrieval. The annual event of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval of the Association …
Harry Buhrman wins VICI grant
In 2003, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a VICI grant to CWI researcher Harry Buhrman for his research on quantum computing. Normal 'classical' computers use memory bits that …
CWI contributes to crack RSA-576
An international team of mathematicians and computer scientists including two CWI researchers has found the two prime factors of a specially prepared encryption testing number called RSA-576, a number of 576 bits …
