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.

Can CT Scans Be Used to Quickly and Accurately Diagnose COVID-19?

CWI’s Computational Imaging group joins research collaboration focusing on improving the accuracy of CT scan diagnosis

Can CT Scans Be Used to Quickly and Accurately Diagnose COVID-19?

Stefan Manegold wins 2020 SIGMOD Contributions Award

CWI researcher Stefan Manegold has been awarded the 2020 SIGMOD Contributions Award. The award recognizes his innovative work in the data management community to encourage scientific reproducibility.

Stefan Manegold wins 2020 SIGMOD Contributions Award

Guidelines for accessible websites, online documents and apps now available in Dutch

The official translation into Dutch of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1), required for all public sector body websites as of 23 September 2020, is now online. Many stakeholders, including …

Guidelines for accessible websites, online documents and apps now available in Dutch

CWI’s 25th spin-off develops software of the future

Swat.engineering generates new and transforms existing software based on domain knowledge.

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New lectorate Applied Quantum Computing

CWI and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences jointly establish a new special lectorate in Applied Quantum Computing. The lectorate supports QuSoft in bridging the gap fundamental quantum research and quantum applications.

New lectorate Applied Quantum Computing

CWI’s DIS Group Organized the ACM CHI2020 Social VR Workshop on VR Platform during COVID-19

Jie Li and Pablo Cesar, from the Distributed Interactive Systems group (DIS) at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), have successfully organized the ACM CHI2020 Social VR Workshop on a social VR platform …

CWI’s DIS Group Organized the ACM CHI2020 Social VR Workshop on VR Platform during COVID-19

Critically assessing AI tools and cultural data in digital humanities

While AI and big data are increasingly proving themselves as useful tools for humanities research, better techniques are needed to understand their limitations. In her PhD thesis, CWI researcher Myriam Traub calls …

Critically assessing AI tools and cultural data in digital humanities. Image by Shutterstock.

CWI develops new mathematical techniques for optimal relocation and dispatch of fire trucks

On Monday 11 May Dmitrii Usanov will defend his PhD thesis. His research focused on dispatching and relocating resources in the emergency domain and the reduction of response times.

CWI develops new mathematical techniques for optimal relocation and dispatch of fire trucks