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.
Tim Baarslag in ‘Universiteit van Nederland’
How can we let computers negotiate for us? Tim Baarslag, who is part of CWI’s Intelligent and Autonomous Systems research group, has given a lecture about this topic for the 'Universiteit van …
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CWI and ProRail predict railway incidents
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and ProRail recently started a research collaboration in the area of the handling of incidents at the Dutch railways. It concerns a public private partnership between CWI and …
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In Memoriam Willem Hundsdorfer
With sadness, we let you know that our colleague Prof. Willem Hundsdorfer passed away on Friday 10 November, at the age of 63. Since 1984 Willem had been affiliated with CWI; first …
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Knipselkrant October 2017
The October 2017 'Knipselkrant' is now online available. An overview of recent issues can be found at the Media Clippings section: https://www.cwi.nl/intranet/organization/communication/media-clippings . Please note: the 'Knipselkrant' was relaunched in July 2017. …
NEWSGAC project kicked off
The NEWSGAC project, acquired by Laura Hollink and Jacco van Ossenbruggen, has kicked off last week week. Researchers of this project aim to open the 'black box' of machine learning in this …
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First CWI thesis on web archiving
Thaer Samar successfully defended his PhD thesis "Access to and Retrievability of Content in Web Archives" on 30 October 2017
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Best Paper Award for Training DevOps engineers
Researchers from CWI's Formal Methods group won the Best Paper Award in the 6th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESSOC) in September 2017. They were awarded the prize for their …
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Tim Baarslag Winner of the 2017 Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award
Tim Baarslag (CWI) won the 2017 ERCIM Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award. This European prize is awarded each year to a promising young researcher of outstanding quality in computer science and applied …
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