News
CWI publishes news item about its research, education and the social impact of this research on a regular basis. In addition to news items, we also publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI contributing to tackling social issues.
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.
Paul Klint speaking at 'NEMO Kinderlezing'
CWI researcher Paul Kint will be speaking on April 21 at the NEMO ‘Wakker Worden Kinderlezing’ about the creation of the first computers.
Cryptographer Ronald Cramer appointed Fellow of IACR
Ronald Cramer from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and Leiden University has been appointed Fellow of IACR.
ERCIM News on Mobile Computing published
In April ERCIM News No. 93 on Mobile Computing was published (pdf).
Michiel Helvensteijn in winning team Moving Story
Moving Story is the winning project of Startup Weekend Enschede (15-17 March 2013), a competition for startup ideas through mobile and web applications. Moving Story is a social platform for sharing stories …
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 …
Coriolis effect can stabilise plasma in fusion reactors
Researchers at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and at FOM Institute for fundamental energy research DIFFER discovered that the Coriolis effect can help stabilise the plasma in nuclear fusion experiments.
Cum laude for thesis from Benjamin Sanderse
Recent figures by CBS (Statistics Netherlands) show that 4% of the energy produced in the Netherlands comes from renewable sources.
