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 Student Paper Award at ECIR, April 2-5 2007, Rome
We are happy to announce that CWI researchers Roberto Cornacchia and Arjen de Vries have won the Best Student Paper Award at the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) in Rome …
Discovering Similarities by Compressing Data
CWI researcher Rudi Cilibrasi studied and extended a new method for statistical inference, based on data compression. It is based on determining the similarity between two random files by using the concept …
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 …
