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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.
Inaugural lecture Stacey Jeffery: 'Quantum algorithms are a (random) walk in the park'
On 17 May, Stacey Jeffery (CWI, QuSoft, UvA) holds her inaugural lecture as a professor by special appointment of Quantum Information at the University of Amsterdam on ‘Quantum algorithms are a (random) …
DIS Researchers organize succesful Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems workshop
The workshop IMmersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE) - co-located with ACM MMSys 2024, a premier conference on multimedia systems - was successfully organized by two CWI researchers of the Distributed …
CWI's DIS group AT CHI 2024
Research carried out by the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has resulted in contributions to this year's ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing …
Meet new Face of Science Tamara Florijn
KNAW recently appointed twelve new Faces of Science to expand the network of PhD students who promote science through blogs, vlogs and presentations. One of them is Tamara Florijn,a PhD student in …
ERCIM researchers and EC discuss GenAI: tools or threat?
ERCIM organized a visionary event on Generative AI. The outcome will be used as input for a vision document for research institutes and the European Commission. CWI and Inria were co-sponsor of …
Call semester programme development 2025-2027
The new Call for Proposals is now open! CWI invites colleagues from Dutch universities to jointly develop proposals for CWI Research Semester Programmes.
CWI involved in new consortium for Revolutionizing the European Industrial Ecosystems through eXtended Reality
The Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group participates in the INDUX-R (Transforming European Industrial Ecosystems through eXtended Reality enhanced with human-centric AI and secure, 5G-enabled IoT) program, together with other 17 organizations …
ERC Advanced Grant for Peter Grünwald for research on a revolutionary statistical theory
Peter Grünwald, senior researcher in the Machine Learning group of CWI and part-time full professor of Statistical Learning at Leiden University has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research on …
