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XML Prague Demo Prize for Steven Pemberton
In February Steven Pemberton won the Demo Prize at the XML Prague conference for his XForms demonstration "It's Conference Time!". XForms is a web technology and W3C standard, co-designed by Pemberton, for …
CWI Starts two projects on digital humanities: TRACTION and MediaScape
The Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has obtained two projects in the area of digital humanities, at the crossroads between human-computer interaction and humanities: MediaScape …
Pablo Cesar awarded Dutch prize for ICT research 2020
The 2020 Dutch Prize for ICT Research is to be awarded to Pablo Cesar, group leader of CWI's Distributive and Interactive Systems group (DIS).
Alina Striner (DIS) awarded Best Paper Award at ICIDS 2019
On 22 November, Alina Striner of CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group was awarded the Best Paper Award at ICIDS 2019, the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling.
Ivan Herman contributes to Contract for the Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the Web Foundation have published the 'Contract for the Web', which was prepared by a large group of international experts, including Ivan Herman (CWI and W3C). CWI also …
Farewell Symposium ‘Declarative Amsterdam’ for Steven Pemberton
CWI celebrates the career of Web pioneer and CWI researcher Steven Pemberton on 4 October with the symposium ‘Declarative Amsterdam’. He is well-known for his pioneering work on (X)HTML, CSS and XForms …
Web Pioneer Steven Pemberton
CWI celebrates the career of Web pioneer and CWI researcher Steven Pemberton on 4 October with the symposium ‘Declarative Amsterdam’. Steven is well-known for his work on (X)HTML, CSS and XForms, a …
Personal Quality of Experience for Multi-Party Desktop Video-Conferencing
Video-conferencing via Skype or Google Hangouts has become one of the standard tools for communication in our daily lives. If we want the video-communication systems to react to network fluctuations and provide …
