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ACM CHI Lifetime Service Award for Steven Pemberton

Steven Pemberton (CWI and W3C) has been awarded the prestigious international ACM CHI Lifetime Service Award.

Steven Pemberton

Bert Zwart appointed full professor at VU University Amsterdam

As of 1 January CWI researcher Bert Zwart is appointed full professor Applied Stochastic Processes at the VU University Amsterdam. He will carry out research, give lectures and supervise graduate students.

Bert Zwart appointed full professor at VU University Amsterdam

Intelligent systems for green developments

Windmills, biomass, solar energy, and storage are essential for green developments in energy supplies, but increase the demands on electricity networks. The SenterNovem project ‘Intelligent and Decentralized Management of Networks and Data’ …

Intelligent systems for green developments

Trust4All awarded with bronze Achievement Award

The project Trust4All, with CWI contributions of Frank de Boer and Farhad Arbab, has won the bronze Achievement Award 2008 of Information Technology for European Advancement 2.

Trust4All awarded with bronze Achievement Award

Innovative CWI research wins Free Competition

Two CWI research proposals have received money in the Free Competition 2008 of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) division for Exact Sciences. From 58 entries the research of Bert Gerards …

Innovative CWI research wins Free Competition

Experts uncover weakness in Internet security

Independent security researchers in California and researchers at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands, EPFL in Switzerland, and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands have found a …

Experts uncover weakness in Internet security

Karen Aardal to TU Delft

As of 1 September Karen Aardal is full Professor Optimization at the Delft University of Technology and becomes head of the Optimization and Systems Theory group. The four preceding years Aardal was …

Leen Stougie appointed full Professor

Leen Stougie was appointed full Professor Operations Research at the VU.

Leen Stougie appointed full Professor Operations Research