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Spinque wins cross-lingual PatOlympics
During the recently held PatOlympics (June 2011), an international competition between researchers competing interactively for locating the best search results in patent literature, Spinque, a spin-off company of the Centrum Wiskunde &a
Stratos Idreos wins 2011 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
Leslie Lamport lectures at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
The renowned computer scientist Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Corporation, USA) gives a lecture at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam on 16 June. Lamport is known for his work in the …
Jos Baeten new general director of CWI
CWI Lectures 2011 on new technologies in automation
SIAG/Optimization Prize for kissing number research
The prestigious SIAG/Optimization Prize has been awarded to Frank Vallentin (Delft University of Technology and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) and Christine Bachoc (University of Bordeaux) for their research on the kissing number.