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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.
Join the National Numeracy Survey in the Netherlands
How numerate are you? Do you prefer to do calculations on paper, or with a calculator? You can join the Dutch National Numeracy Survey – 'het Groot Nationaal Rekenonderzoek' (in Dutch) – …
CWI cryptanalyst Stevens develops method for detection of Flame virus
Theme CWI Lectures 2012 ‘Understanding Software’
The theme of the annual CWI Lectures that takes place 14 June 2012 is 'Understanding Software. The size of software systems ranges from dozens to hundreds of millions lines of code. Programming …
CWI cryptanalyst discovers new cryptographic attack variant in Flame spy malware
Cryptanalyst Marc Stevens from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, known for breaking the https security in 2008 using a cryptanalytic attack on MD5, analyzed the recent Flame virus this …
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’.
