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.
International innovation award to Martin Kersten
Martin Kersten, Research fellow at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) is awarded the 2014 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, the most prestigious prize for researchers who have made innovative and …
CWI researchers develop new method of computation
Catalytic memory is the new term for a method of computing whereby the computer carries out a computation using memory that it is already filled with data, returning it to its original …
Towards a European Smart Energy System
In the European vision document “Towards a European Smart Energy System”, researchers Han La Poutré and Felix Claessen from the research group Intelligent Systems at the Centrum Wiskunde & Infor
CWI improves discharge models for technical applications
Pulsed electric discharges have important applications, such as purifying polluted air in highway tunnels, disinfection and wound healing. As physical and chemical processes in pulsed discharges occur on a large variety of …
Database Indexes for the Big Data Era
Researchers of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam have developed new methods to index huge databases. These space efficient indexes are lightweight to build and maintain and grow less than linear …
Vconect project streams concert to remote audiences (video)
Together with partners of the Vconect project, researchers at CWI demonstrated how group video communications can be used to make remote audiences experience a performance as though they are actually present.
Who's afraid of Object Algebras?
Object algebras are a simple technique that solves a long-standing problem of extensibility in programming languages, called the expression problem. CWI-researcher Tijs van der Storm presented the technique at Joy of Coding …
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