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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.
Software Engineering Symposium 2020 (SEN) at CWI
Coming Friday VERSEN organizes the sixth Dutch national software engineering symposium at CWI. It will feature six invited talks from academia and industry.
CWI starts development of statistical framework for prediction of fires
Recently, a project submitted to NWO-TTW's open technology programme by a consortium consisting of researchers from CWI, UT, Thales and the Twente Fire Brigade has been granted.
Weather forecast techniques help find the perfect oil drill
A new way of processing data from rock measurements could lead to a much more efficient oil extraction. During her PhD research, Sangeetika Ruchi developed a method to infer the most probable …
Pablo Cesar awarded Dutch prize for ICT research 2020
The 2020 Dutch Prize for ICT Research is to be awarded to Pablo Cesar, group leader of CWI's Distributive and Interactive Systems group (DIS).
Reality check for financial risk assessment tool concludes CWI-led project
One of the most promising tools for assessing financial risks proves to hold up after a thorough mathematical gauging. CWI researcher Ki Wai Chau developed a numerical analysis of complex algorithms that …
Levchin prize for Marc Stevens’ groundbreaking work on hash functions
For their groundbreaking work on the security of collision resistant hash functions researchers Marc Stevens (CWI) and Xiaoyun Wang (Tsinghua University) were awarded one of the two 2020 Levchin Prizes for real-world …
New protocols can speed up early quantum computers
How can quantum computers perform as many computations as possible within the short lifespan of quantum memory? CWI researcher Koen Groenland developed methods to do so. His results can help improve early …
Meet Turing Award winner Michael Stonebraker at ADS Meetup
In the wake of the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), several of its high-profile participants will speak at a special public meetup “ADS Meets CIDR”.
