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Veni grant for fascinating quantum computing

CWI's computer scientist Ronald de Wolf can spend 200,000 euro on quantum computing research. Together with 83 young scientists he received a Veni subsidy from NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research …

Google teaches computers the meaning of words

Computers can learn the meaning of words with the help of the Google search engine. CWI researchers Rudi Cilibrasi and Paul Vitányi found a way to use the world wide web as …

Program recognizes patterns without prior knowledge

Identifying unknown composers, automatically recognizing languages, finding the origin of new strains of viruses. These are just a few examples of the many possibilities of the CompLearn Toolkit, a compression based pattern …

Ronald de Wolf first Dutch winner Cor Baayen Award

Ronald de Wolf first Dutch winner Cor Baayen AwardCWI-researcher Ronald de Wolf has won the 2003 Cor Baayen Award. He is the first Dutch scientist to win this ERCIM award for the …

New Scientist: Software to unzip identity of unknown composers

New Scientist wrote the following text about recent research of Paul Vitányi and fellow researchers at CWI: "A standard PC file-compression program can tell the difference between classical music, jazz ad rock, …