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Internet pioneers Beertema and Pemberton in XS4ALL movie

Internet provider XS4ALL interviewed Internet & Web pioneers Piet Beertema and Steven Pemberton from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam in a movie - 'De Nederlandse helden van het internet' (The …

CWI and Xinhuanet sign cooperation agreement

CWI and Chinese online news provider Xinhuanet signed a cooperation agreement to develop a user experience research program. Jos Baeten (director CWI) and Tian Shubin (Xinhuanet CEO) signed the agreement last week …

Experimental theatre show performed in two venues simultaneously

On Tuesday 9 September, CWI multimedia researchers will contribute to a unique theatre performance. Miracle Theatre from Falmouth (UK) will perform a single play of Shakespeare’s The Tempest split between two theatres, …

Vconect project streams concert to remote audiences (video)

Together with partners of the Vconect project, researchers at CWI demonstrated how group video communications can be used to make remote audiences experience a performance as though they are actually present.

Theatre play with actors in two locations

Together with partners of the Vconect project, researchers at CWI demonstrated how group video communications can be used to enable a theatre play performed between two different locations, and experienced live by …

SIGMM Award for Dick Bulterman

CWI researchers Pemberton, Stevens and De Haan lecture at OHM 2013

CWI researchers Steven Pemberton, Marc Stevens and Robbert de Haan will give four lectures at the OHM conference, which takes place from 31 July to 4 August 2013 in Geestmerambacht, the Netherlands.

CWI develops prototype for '3D-based Skype'

Researchers from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) have devised a prototype system that can efficiently stream live-constructed 3D representations. This Tele-Immersion system enables …