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Human Brain Project started
The Human Brain Project, the world’s most ambitious neuroscience project, is underway. Scientists from the 135 partner institutions, co-funded by the EU with an estimated budget of €1.2 billion, are meeting in …
Peter Boncz Special Professor at VU University Amsterdam
Peter Boncz of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has been appointed Special Professor of Large-Scale Analytical Data Management at the Faculty of Sciences of VU University Amsterdam as of 1 …
Arnold Smeulders will join the Academia Europaea
Arnold Smeulders (COMMIT/, UvA and CWI) recently received an invitation to join the prestigious Academia Europaea.
Peter Boncz receives Humboldt Research Award
Peter Boncz, researcher in the Database Architectures research group of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam (CWI) has received the Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The Award ceremony …
Humboldt Research Award for Peter Boncz
Peter Boncz, computer scientist and researcher from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam (CWI) has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
New database architecture exploits power of modern network hardware
Researchers from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) challenged the common belief that network is your bottleneck in Big Data. They have developed a novel database architecture where the most relevant data flows …
CWI in Human Brain Project
The European Commission has today officially announced the Human Brain Project (HBP) as one of the two winners of the prestigious FET flagships. The prestigious research project aims to connect all European …
ICT Personality Award 2012 to Peter Apers and Arnold Smeulders
Nederland ICT (former ICT~Office) has awarded its annual ICT Personality Award 2012 to Peter Apers (UT) and Arnold Smeulders (CWI/UvA/COMMIT). They receive this award for their prominent role in ICT research in …
