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Martin Kersten advisor Philips Research

Philips Research has appointed Martin Kersten as an advisor on database technology for its ambient intelligence program. Ambient intelligence covers a wide array of technologies for creating electronic environments sensitive to people. …

BRICKS launched

A meeting at the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO in The Hague on April 15 marked the official start of the CWI-coordinated BRICKS project. In the presence of NWO officials and …

Cor Baayen nominated as honorary member KWG

The Royal Dutch Mathematical Society KWG has nominated Cor Baayen as an honorary member. Baayen was scientific director of CWI from 1980 to 1994. He joined the institute in 1959 as a …

Andrew Tanenbaum elected Akademiehoogleraar

Andrew Tanenbaum has been elected Akademiehoogleraar by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences KNAW. Tanenbaum is considered one of the most influential computer scientists in the Netherlands. He is professor of Computer …

Ute Ebert wins Minerva Prize

CWI researcher Ute Ebert has won the Minerva Prize 2004. This was announced by the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter FOM on February 25. Ebert's publication was chosen unanimously out of …

NWO funds CWI projects on computational life science

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO has awarded funding to three projects that involve CWI's Non-linear PDE group. This was announced in December 2003. The subsidies are part of NWO's Computational …

Arie van Deursen appointed professor

CWI researcher Arie van Deursen has been appointed professor of software engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science of Delft University of Technology. He took up his duties …

CWI co-hosts SIGIR 2007

The Netherlands have been selected to host SIGIR 2007. SIGIR is the major international conference on information retrieval. The annual event of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval of the Association …