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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.
CWI’s DIS group Releases Open Source Software Platform for Object-Based Broadcasting Production
H2020 EU-funded project 2-IMMERSE, of which CWI’s Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group is a member had a successful final review meeting. DIS has contributed with several core platform components related to …
DIS at CHI 2019
The Distributed and Interactive Systems group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) will be present at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019, presenting three full papers.
Awards for SWAT and DIS at ICT OPEN 2019
CWI's SWAT and DIS group have been awarded with a prize at NWO's ICT OPEN 2019, the event for ICT research in the Netherlands.
WINDTRUE project starts with kick-off meeting at CWI
On 4 March our new WINDTRUE project took to the air, aiming to develop new models that help turbine designers manage large uncertainties in wind and wave behavior, which makes well-dimensioned, cost-optimal …
CWI develops price models for financial derivatives
The risks of trading complicated financial contracts can be unclear to a certain extent. In order to get a better insight in the determination of prices of such financial derivatives, CWI researcher …
CWI DIS Group awarded EU Worth Project Funding
CWI's Distributed & Interactive Systems Group (DIS) has been awarded a grant for a project by the EU's WORTH Partnership Project.
Cryptographic security at the speed of light
When people who distrust each other want to securely cooperate, they can use cryptographic 'commitment schemes'. Max Fillinger (CWI) designed and analyzed relativistic commitment schemes. He defends his PhD thesis 'Bit-Commitments: Classical, …
CWI spin-off company Dataspex offers solutions to big data challenges in astronomy
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has launched a new spin-off: Dataspex. The new company offers big data management solutions to astronomers.
