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Demo Prize for Steven Pemberton at 2018 Markup UK conference
Steven Pemberton (CWI) won a demo prize during the 2018 Markup UK conference in London. Pemberton, who is the co-designer of web technology and W3C standard XForms, showed that XForms can reduce …
Joint industrial PhD program with Xinhuanet
CWI has launched a joint industrial PhD program with Xinhuanet in the research area of Social Internet of Things (IoT), smart textiles, and physiological computing. Xinhuanet Co. Ltd. is a key website …
Monitoring the Engagement of Groups with Sensors
The PhD thesis of CWI PhD student Chen Wang of the Distributed and Interactive (DIS) group reports on research to design a GSR system that can support and enhance actors’ awareness of …
MediaSync: Handbook on Multimedia Synchronization published
Recently, "MediaSync: Handbook on Multimedia Synchronization" edited by DIS members Pablo Cesar and Jack Jansen has been published by Springer.
DIS at CHI 2018
The Distributed and Interactive Systems group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) will be present at CHI 2018 showcasing their research on a case-study of developing a multi-sensory clubbing experience during Amsterdam …
Smart Textiles and the Internet of Things
On 26 September CWI researchers will be presenting their smart textiles research at a symposium on Smart Textiles and the Internet of Things at the Royal College of Art in London, one …
KIEM funding for developing a smart urban jacket
CWI's DIS group led by Pablo Cesar has been awarded KIEM funding by NWO Humanities. The funding will go to "Project Cairo: an intelligent soft-robotic jacket". DIS will work on this project …
DIS contributes to MPEG’s work on Point Cloud Compression
The Distributed and Interactive Systems group has been a core contributor to the effort of Moving Picture Experts Group on 3D point cloud compression technologies. This effort aims at providing efficient representation …