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.
New spin-off MonetDB B.V.
To stimulate commercial applications and to disseminate scientific research, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam founded MonetDB B.V. in 2008. In 2024 the MonetDB Foundation was launched.
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Arjen de Vries appointed professor
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CWI research helps predicting limit Moore's Law
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PhD for Steven de Rooij: Mathematics helps to select the best model
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Best Paper Award for Interactive Television Research
The award was granted to CWI researchers.
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New website
The CWI website is renewed with a content management system.
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Use of bandwidth more effective with queueing models
Bandwidth for internet traffic can be utilized more effectively with queueing models. Pascal Lieshout researched this at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. He took his PhD on Friday 5 September …
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Safer cash withdrawal from ATMs with mathematics
Software faults can be expensive - for instance in automated teller machines (ATMs). Quality control should avoid such faults, but this is often a cumbersome, expensive and erroneous task. Jens Calamé from …
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