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Symposium on Human-Centered Multimedia to celebrate Pablo César’s Professorship Appointment

On 20 May 2022, Pablo César gives his inaugural lecture at TU Delft, Aula, to celebrate his appointment to Professorship. The lecture, titled “Human-Centered Multimedia: making remote togetherness possible”, will provide an …

Symposium on Human-Centered Multimedia to celebrate Pablo Cesar’s Professorship Appointment

DIS AT CHI 2022

Research carried out by the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has resulted in contributions to this year's ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing …

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Léo Ducas appointed professor of Mathematical Cryptology

Léo Ducas is appointed as a part-time professor Mathematical Cryptology at Leiden University. At CWI, he designed several cryptosystems, some of which might soon be adopted as new international standards.

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Learning better from data: Rianne de Heide wins prestigious award for her dissertation

How can humans and computers learn from data? In her dissertation Rianne de Heide describes some of these problems and introduces a new way of hypothesis testing. For this she received the …

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Veni grant for Alexander Ly

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) awarded a Veni grant to Alexander Ly, who will start working at CWI in the run of 2022. Ly received the grant for his proposal “Increasing Scientific …

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New optimisation model enables rapid response to disruptions

PhD studen Dylan Huizing (CWI/VU) has developed a solution for planning preventive tasks maintenance tasks of ProRail such that incident fighters are evenly located over the network at all times, thus ensuring …

New optimisation model enables rapid response to disruptions

New statistical method brings studies together at an early stage

To be able to combine global research, PhD student Judith ter Schure of CWI's Machine Learning group developed a new kind of statistics: ALL-IN meta-analysis.

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Abel Laureates Lectures at CWI with László Lovász and Avi Wigderson

On 8 April 2022 the two 2021 Abel Prize Laureates - László Lovász and Avi Wigderson - gave lectures at CWI during a festive afternoon programme for the Dutch science community. Below …

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