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.
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.
NWO Team Science Award for CWI with UvA and Rijksmuseum
A team of researchers from CWI, Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), Rijksmuseum and Universiteit Leiden (UL) have been awarded the first NWO Team Science Award for their research on the Hugo de Groot …
CWI-researchers performed at 'Gala van de Wetenschap'
CWI researchers Harry Buhrman, Stacey Jeffery and Maris Ozols performed at 'Gala van de Wetenschap'.
Second release ASTRA toolbox
The new version of ASTRA, co-developed at CWI, offers improvements in compatibility and interoperability with other toolboxes.
