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.
CWI mathematically describes cloud formation
Clouds play a major role in weather and climate, but are hard to include in predictions due to their chaotic nature. CWI researcher Jesse Dorrestijn developed new mathematical representations of clouds to …
New electricity grids possible with computer simulations
Renewable energy requires new electricity grids, sometimes over entire continents, because 'green energy' is often generated in remote locations.
Tijs van der Storm appointed at University of Groningen
Tijs van der Storm has been appointed professor of Software Engineering at the University of Groningen (RUG) It is a part-time appointment per 1 September 2016 that Van der Storm will combine …
Three articles from the Netherlands published in ERCIM News 106 on Cybersecurity
In July 2016, ERCIM News 106 was published: ercim-news.ercim.eu/en106. This issue featured a special theme on Cybersecurity, in which three articles from the Netherlands were published and one from Belgium. Another article …
Cryptographers from the Netherlands win 2016 Internet Defense Prize
Cryptographers Léo Ducas from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and Peter Schwabe (Radboud University) have won the 2016 Internet Defense Prize. They were awarded the prize with their co-authors Erdem Alkim …
Leo Ducas wins 2016 Internet Defense Prize
Léo Ducas of CWI's Cryptology group has won the 2016 Internet Defense Prize. He was awarded the prize last night with his co-authors Erdem Alkim (Ege University), Thomas Pöppelmann (Infineon Technologies AG) …
Best Paper Award for DIS researchers at PhyCS 2016
CWI researchers Chen Wang, Xintong Zhu, Thomas Roggla, and Pablo Cesar of CWI's Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group were awarded a prestigious Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Physiological …
CWI develops energy sharing platform for housing cooperative Amsterdam
Researchers in the European Grid-Friends project will launch a pilot for sharing renewable energy between households in the Amsterdam building project Schoonschip. By coordinating energy supply and demand between the houses, the …
