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.
Best Paper Award for Intelligent Interfaces
On 30 October Michiel Hildebrand (CWI) received the Best Student Paper Award for research proposals at the International Semantic Web Conference 2008 in Karlsruhe.
CWI research in popular NWO book
On 28 October the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) published a book about science in the Netherlands.
CWI mathematician Bert Zwart receives Erlang Prize
The Erlang Prize is to honour the best researcher under the age of 36 who has contributed significantly to applied probability. Zwart is the first person outside the United States to win …
Safe cracked during open door day
On Saturday 18 October 2008 Science Park Amsterdam was open to the public. CWI also participated and challenged the visitors to crack the code of a safe.
PhD defence Jarek Byrka
How could two banks be merged efficiently? Which offices should close and which not? Where should people build new energy plants? To answer these kinds of questions Jarek Byrka (CWI) studied mathematical …
Best Paper Award for SMIL State research
At the ACM DocEngineering Symposium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jack Jansen and Dick Bulterman received the Best Paper Award.
Higher quality of web services appreciated
The research project Service Optimization and Quality (SEQUAL) that starts in October, came first in the IOP Generic Communication funding programme of Senternovem.
Van Oortmerssen compliments CWI in weblog
"Marvellous to see how practical fundamental research can be", Gerard van Oortmerssen, director ICTRegie, compliments the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in his weblog.
