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NWO Spinoza Prize 2005 for Alexander Schrijver
Mathematician prof.dr. Alexander Schrijver is awarded the Spinoza Prize 2005. This was announced by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research in The Hague on June 6. Lex Schrijver (1948) is researcher at …
Mathematician simulates axon development
How do neurons grow during the development of the nervous system? Johannes Krottje from CWI modelled this growth and made a flexible simulation package - AGTools - for biologists and brain researchers. …
Better methods to guarantee software quality
The complexity of software increases while at the same time its quality level becomes more important: Safety-critical systems should never fail and commercial products have to perform well to keep the customers …
TT-Medal Project wins ITEA Achievement Award 2005
The Board of ITEA - Information Technology for European Advancement - selected the TT-Medal project as the winner of the ITEA 2005 Achievement Award. This was announced at the 6th ITEA Symposium …
E-Quality expertise centre for quality of ICT services
With the fast-growing number of new ICT services and applications, it is becoming more and more difficult to guarantee the required quality levels. To strengthen research in the field of Quality of …
Royal honour for Lex Schrijver
Mathematician prof.dr. A. Schrijver has been appointed 'Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw'. On Monday, 19 September 2005 Lex Schrijver received the honour from dr. S.J. Noorda, President of the …
Joost N. Kok new Board Member Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research( NWO) approved the appointment of prof.dr. J.N. Kok as member of the board of the Stichting Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica. Joost Kok (1961) is appointed …
Kick-off expertise centre E-Quality on September 30
CWI, TNO Information and Communication Technology and the University of Twente have recently agreed to found the E-Quality Expertise Centre, aiming at performance and Quality of Service of ICT services and networks. …
