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.
Veni grant for Simon Telen
NWO awarded a Veni grant to Simon Telen, who will develop new strategies for solving complicated mathematical equations and apply them to real-world problems.
Sneak peek into future of cultural heritage
How can people from London and Paris visit a museum located in Amsterdam together? The MediaScape Extended Reality (XR) application might be a promising solution.
Podcast: Companies craving for quantum software
Harry Buhrman (CWI, QuSoft) spoke in the Superscience podcast series on the new possibilities that quantum software will offer society and businesses.
Podcast: How can AI detect controversial terms?
Laura Hollink (CWI) talked about the Cultural AI Lab in the podcast 'Snoek op Zolder'. How can values like diversity and inclusiveness be translated into AI applications?
In memoriam Dirk Dekker (1927-2021)
Mathematician and former CWI employee Dirk Dekker has died at the age of 94.
CWI database research at the root of Silicon Valley success
CWI researcher Peter Boncz was interviewed by Het Financieele Dagblad about the CWI roots of two successful Silicon Valley companies: Snowflake and Databricks. Both make software to store and process data.
First annual meeting of Dutch Inverse Problems community
A mathematician, a statistician and a physicist gather in a room…” sounds like the beginning of a joke. It was, however, the main ingredient of a very successful first annual meeting of …
Jordi Weggemans wins Lorentz Graduation Prize
CWI PhD student and QuSoft researcher Jordi Weggemans has won the Lorentz Graduation Prize for Theoretical Physics 2021 for his master thesis on a new quantum algorithm.
