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Ute Ebert elected as AGU Fellow
The American Geophysical Union announced that Ute Ebert (CWI and TU/e) was elected as an AGU Fellow for crucial theoretical, numerical and experimental insights on lightning and related sciences.
Shaping the technologies that impact our democracy
Misinformation is just one of many problems we face with the rise of artificial intelligence. Technology is impacting our democracy in an unprecedented way. That is why CWI, the university of Amsterdam …
Banking on Domain Knowledge for Faster Transactions
Tim Soethout of CWI's Software Analysis and Transformation group defended his thesis at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Best presentation award for Francien Bossema at AmeriDendro
The prize was awarded for the presentation 'Applications and advances in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) for dendrochronology'.
2 Best Paper Awards for CWI at GECCO
Researchers from CWI and Leiden University were awarded two best paper awards at the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO) 2022.
Intel Award for Marten van Dijk and colleagues
Test of Time Award for a single-chip secure processor where the underlying system software is untrusted.
CWI Fellow co-edits book about Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
In July 2022, the book 'Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: His Life, Work, and Legacy', edited by CWI Fellow Krzysztof Apt and Tony Hoare, was published. From '52-'62, Turing Award winner Dijkstra worked at …
In Memoriam Martin Kersten
Sadly, Prof. Dr. M.L. (Martin) Kersten (1953-2022), fellow of CWI and emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Amsterdam, passed away on 6 July 2022
