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.
Open Source Release: MonetDB/XQuery Updates
CWI released a new version of its high-performance open-source XML database system MonetDB/XQuery on 3 February 2007. The main new feature of this release is support for transactional safe updating of XML …
Ute Ebert: ``No plasma in ball lightning?''
"Is there no plasma in ball lightning?" CWI researcher Ute Ebert comments recent experiments on lightning balls. These experiments were done by Antônio Pavão and Gerson Paiva of the Federal University of …
Global warming could destabilize the plankton of the oceans
Chaos among the plankton
Conviction by numbers: Grünwald and Gill criticize statistics Lucia de B in Nature
Peter Grünwald of the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and Richard Gill of the Universiteit Leiden criticize the statistics used in the trial of nurse and alleged 'serial killer' …
New Dutch train timetable made more robust with help of CWI
The 2007 Dutch train timetable, which started on 10 December 2006, has been made more robust with help of CWI researcher Lex Schrijver and programmer Adri Steenbeek. This was pointed out by …
Tuesday November 28: Research Vox Populi on Noorderlicht Radio
Stefano Bocconi (PhD defense November 30 at TU/e) will be interviewed by Noorderlicht Radio on Tuesday November 28 2006. He will talk about the Vox Populi system which automatically generates video documentaries …
Amsterdam Researchers Win International Semantic Web Challenge
The MultimediaN E-culture Project has won the first prize at the Semantic Web Challenge at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference held in Athens, Georgia, USA. This international competition aims to advance …
Kuhn Award for Leen Stougie
Shane Dye (Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand), Leen Stougie (TU/e and CWI) and Asgeir Tomasgard (SINTEF and NTNU, Norway) received the 2006 Harold W. Kuhn Award during the INFORMS annual meeting in …
