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Surjya Ghosh selected to participate in the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Surjya Ghosh of CWI's DIS group has been selected to participate in the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), to be held from 19 to 24 September 2021, in Heidelberg, Germany.
Peter Bosman awarded grant of 1M euros from NWO’s Open Technology Programme
Peter Bosman’s project proposal DAEDALUS (Distributed and Automated Evolutionary Deep Architecture Learning with Unprecedented Scalability) has been granted by NWO TTW in its Open Technology Programme.
Harry Buhrman joins Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Quantum researcher Harry Buhrman joins the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The KNAW is the most relevant Dutch society of top scientists. Together with seventeen other researchers, Buhrman will …
Harry Buhrman treedt toe tot KNAW
Quantumonderzoeker Harry Buhrman treedt toe tot de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. De KNAW is het belangrijkste Nederlandse genootschap van topwetenschappers. Samen met zeventien andere onderzoekers wordt hij op 14 september 2020 …
Vacancy: director of CWI
With our current director Jos Baeten resigning later this year, CWI is looking for a new director. CWI’s leadership requires an international reputation as a scientist, a proven track record of leading …
Ming Li and Paul Vitanyi's textbook on Kolmogorov complexity receives a 2020 McGuffey Longevity Award
Paul Vitányi (CWI) and Ming Li (University of Waterloo) have received one of seven 2020 McGuffey Longevity Awards from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association for 'An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and …
€1.5 million European grant for mathematics consortium NETWORKS
The NETWORKS consortium can now continue growing thanks to a €1.5 million grant from the European Union’s Horizon2020 programme.
DIS AT CHI 2020
Research carried out by the Distributed and Interactive Systems from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has resulted in several contributions to this year's ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
