News
CWI publishes news item about its research, education and the social impact of this research on a regular basis. In addition to news items, we also publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI contributing to tackling social issues.
Combination of linguistic features accurately detects fake news
Text analysis tools can detect potential fake news. They 'flag' suspicious texts that need further investigation. CWI researcher Davide Ceolin and Sandro Barres-Hamers of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam wrote a conference paper on …
One year of AI, Media and Democracy Lab
A report of the first annual Community Meeting
The Netherlands first in Europe to connect to the public internet 35 years ago
On 17 November, it will be exactly 35 years since the Netherlands became the first in Europe to connect to the public internet. This happened at research institute CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & …
Cum laude for Luis Felipe Vargas for research in optimization
Mathematician Luis Felipe Vargas (CWI) received a 'cum laude' degree for his thesis on optimization. His PhD research resulted in a new mathematical insight on approximation bounds for graph parameters.
Conference on disinformation via social media
Misinformation and disinformation spread via social media is an issue of growing importance. On 21 and 22 November CWI will host the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM).
Pablo Cesar (CWI) Keynotes “Towards Volumetric Video Conferencing" Around the World
Prof. Pablo Cesar from the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from CWI and TU Delft keynoted the talk “Towards Volumetric Video Conferencing” in different venues in Europe and Latin America.
CWI in Het Klokhuis TV episode on Internet
On 2 November, Steven Pemberton told on Dutch national TV in 'Het Klokhuis' about the early days of open Internet in Europe, which started at CWI.
Netherlands Academy of Engineering appoints Tim Baarslag as Fellow
The recently established Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE) has appointed 62 top experts as Fellow, including CWI researcher Tim Baarslag of the Intelligent and Autonomous Systems group. With this, NAE emphasizes the …
