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.
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 …
Annual Report 2013 available
CWI in European research project precision farming
Increasingly, remote sensing data is made publicly available by organizations such as ESA and NASA. Based on these data, and in combination with other sources, new valuable applications can be created.
CWI researchers in European RETHINK big project
Every two days, we create the equivalent of all the data generated throughout human history up until 2003. The intelligent use of this data shows enormous potential for generating new knowledge and …
Four Dutch contributions to ERCIM News 97 on Cyber-Physical Systems
ERCIM News No. 97 - with a special theme on Cyber-Physical Systems - was published online on 11 April.
CWI in wetenschapsprogramma ‘De Kennis van Nu’
Ongelukken gebeuren niet random, daar zit een patroon in. Door gebruik te maken van historische data kunnen beschikbare ambulances slimmer worden ingezet.
