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.
Cum laude for Luis Felipe Vargas for research in optimization
Mathematician Luis Felipe Vargas (CWI) received a 'cum laude' degree for his thesis on optimization. His PhD research resulted in a new mathematical insight on approximation bounds for graph parameters.
Conference on disinformation via social media
Misinformation and disinformation spread via social media is an issue of growing importance. On 21 and 22 November CWI will host the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM).
Pablo Cesar (CWI) Keynotes “Towards Volumetric Video Conferencing" Around the World
Prof. Pablo Cesar from the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from CWI and TU Delft keynoted the talk “Towards Volumetric Video Conferencing” in different venues in Europe and Latin America.
CWI in Het Klokhuis TV episode on Internet
On 2 November, Steven Pemberton told on Dutch national TV in 'Het Klokhuis' about the early days of open Internet in Europe, which started at CWI.
Netherlands Academy of Engineering appoints Tim Baarslag as Fellow
The recently established Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE) has appointed 62 top experts as Fellow, including CWI researcher Tim Baarslag of the Intelligent and Autonomous Systems group. With this, NAE emphasizes the …
CWI Fellow Paul Klint receives Computable Lifetime Achievement Award
The editors of ICT website and magazine Computable elected CWI Fellow Paul Klint for the Lifetime Achievement Award.
DIS group at ACM Multimedia Conference 2023
Research carried out by the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has resulted in contributions to this year's ACM Multimedia Conference.
Most Influential Paper Award of ACM SIGPLAN SLE conference for Tijs van der Storm and others
Tijs van der Storm and a team of 20+ authors received the Most Influential Paper Award of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) for their article on …
