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Marcin Żukowski receives CWI Dijkstra Fellowship for pioneering work in database systems
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) awards the Dijkstra Fellowship on 21 November to Marcin Żukowski, former CWI database researcher and co-founder of the globally successful tech company Snowflake. Żukowski's pioneering work produced …
Portrait Marten van Dijk
Autumn 2024, IPN (ICT Research Platform Netherlands) made a portrait of Marten van Dijk, group leader of CWI's Computer Security group.
Matthias Christandl appointed to 2024 Turing Chair
Matthias Christandl, a leading researcher in quantum information theory, has been appointed to the 2024 Turing Chair. He is hosted at QuSoft and CWI.
Honourable mention Christiaan Huygens Prize for Lucas Slot
The Christiaan Huygens Science Prize 2024 was awarded to Jan Willem van Ittersum for his PhD dissertation in mathematics. Lucas Slot and Rosa Schwarz both received an honourable mention. Slot (ETH Zürich) …
Anton Bouter wins ACM SIGEVO Dissertation award
This year's Best Dissertation Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO) has gone to Anton Bouter of the Evolutionary Intelligence (EI) group at CWI.
IMAGINE takes off
Open innovation lab accelerates application of image-guided techniques in cancer.
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.
Physiological-based Group Emotion Recognition: Novel Methods and Real-World Applications
The thesis of Patrícia Bota, co-supervised by Pablo Cesar, focuses on improving emotion recognition systems through group dynamics.
