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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.
Jan H. van Schuppen Appointed as Full Professor TU Delft
Starting from 1 September 2009 Jan H. van Schuppen (CWI) has been appointed as professor Mathematical System Theory at the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer …
New array database technology for scientists
Faster database technology with MonetDB/X100
VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award for hardware-aware database technology
Researchers Peter Boncz, Stefan Manegold, and Martin Kersten of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam won the prestigious VLDB 10-year Best Paper Award on August 27.
Mathematics for money and games for maths teachers
Could the performance and development of a football player be calculated with mathematics? Does a fair electoral system exist for a democracy? Which games could be solved with group theory? These and …
Ingres and CWI spin-off VectorWise announce dramatic database performance improvement
Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database management company, announced on 29th July the Ingres VectorWise project. This is a collaboration between Ingres, VectorWise - a spin-off company from the leading database …
D. Wojtczak receives Best paper award at ICALP 2009
Following the decision of the programme committee of ICALP 2009 Track B, Dominik Wojtczak (a former PhD student at University of Edinburgh, currently a postdoc at CWI) together with Michael Ummels (PhD …
Lynda Hardman appointed distinguished professor Multimedia Interaction
Lynda Hardman is appointed distinguished professor Multimedia Interaction.
