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.
Jurgen Vinju and Tijs van der Storm at Bits & Chips conference
Today, CWI researchers Jurgen Vinju and Tijs van der Storm (from the research group Software Analysis and Transformation) participate in the Bits&Chips software engineering conference.
Workshop Joy of Coding
Last Friday, CWI researchers Jouke Stoel and Tijs van der Storm (from the research group Software Analysis and Transformation) organized the workshop "Hack your Language with Rascal" at the third Joy of …
Wearing Sense: smart fashion measures user responses during CWI in Bedrijf event
Wearable technology is becoming more integrated into everyday life. By embedding sensors in textiles, fashion that senses the wearer reactions can be produced.
New mathematical models predict success rate of drug trials
A large part of drug trials fail when it turns out that the results for laboratory animals do not transfer to humans (1). New mathematical models developed at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica …
Software Engineering Distinguished Service Award for Paul Klint
Paul Klint, Research fellow at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) is awarded the 2015 IEEE TCSE Software Engineering Distinguished Service Award. The award is presented annually to individual researches for their …
Internet pioneers Beertema and Pemberton in XS4ALL movie
Internet provider XS4ALL interviewed Internet & Web pioneers Piet Beertema and Steven Pemberton from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam in a movie - 'De Nederlandse helden van het internet' (The …
Mohammed El-Kebir receives BioSB Young Investigator Award
Mohammed El-Kebir of CWI’s Life Sciences group has been awarded the BioSB Young Investigator Award for best PhD thesis in the field of bioinformatics and systems biology in the Netherlands.
Christian Schaffner receives Vidi grant for quantum cryptography
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant to Christian Schaffner (UvA/CWI) for his research on quantum cryptography. Schaffner is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam's Institute of …
