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Veni grant for Big Data research
The Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Stratos Idreos of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam a Veni grant for his project “DataExplore: Querying the Universe in a few …
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European Data Forum 2012 announced
On 6 and 7 June 2012, the first European Data Forum will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark. CWI researcher Peter Boncz is one of the organizing partners through the European project Linked …
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Cor Baayen Award 2011 for Stratos Idreos and Luca Mottola
This year, ERCIM – the European Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics – has exceptionally selected two winners for the Cor Baayen Award: Stratos Idreos, researcher in the Database Architectures group of the …
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CWI Database Architecture Group wins VLDB 2011 C&V best paper award
Martin Kersten, research fellow at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, received the Challenges & Visions Track best paper award during the 2011 International Conference on Very Large …
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Spinque wins cross-lingual PatOlympics
During the recently held PatOlympics (June 2011), an international competition between researchers competing interactively for locating the best search results in patent literature, Spinque, a spin-off company of the Centrum Wiskunde &a
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Stratos Idreos wins 2011 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
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CWI spin-off company VectorWise sold to Ingres Corporation
The high-tech spin-off company VectorWise from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has been sold to Ingres Corporation (USA), a leading open source database management company.
Martin Kersten appointed CWI Fellow
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