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.
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica DNSSEC and IPv6 accessible
The cwi.nl domain from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is, as one of the first domains in the Netherlands, secured by DNSSEC. DNSSEC is an addition to …
Exhibition 'Turings Erfenis' opens doors
To honour the Alan Turing Year 2012, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam organizes the exhibition 'Turings Erfenis'. 23 June 2012 is the worldwide celebration of the famous British mathematician Alan …
Decades-old P=NP 'proof' finally refuted
The traveling salesman problem is still unresolved. A 26 year old claim for a solution is finally fully refuted by researchers of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, Université libre de …
Research on more efficient secure computation started
Researcher Ronald Cramer (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) was awarded a grant from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to improve the efficiency of ‘two-party secure computation’.
David García Soriano defends thesis on property testing
Whether they are analyzing the stock market, genes or search data, computer programs often need to process large amounts of data. Sometimes there isn't even have enough time to process all the …
European Data Forum 2012 announced
On 6 and 7 June 2012, the first European Data Forum will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark. CWI researcher Peter Boncz is one of the organizing partners through the European project Linked …
New computer techniques speed up drug research
A computer algorithm developed by bioinformaticists at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam speeds up simulations predicting the effect of drugs on the human body. This allows pharmaceutical researchers to discover …
Early genetic code very resistant to mutation
Researchers of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam show that the genetic code is remarkably resistant to DNA replication errors. This might explain the success of the common ancestor of all …
