Stories
CWI publishes on a regular basis news item about our research, education and the social impact of this research. In addition to news items, we publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI tackling social issues.
Secrets of the skull
Our FleX-ray Lab houses a unique X-ray machine that creates 3D scans of the most diverse objects. This allows us to reveal details that remain hidden in regular scans. In this series, …
A Greek Mystery
Our FleX-ray Lab houses a unique X-ray machine that creates 3D scans of a wide variety of objects. This reveals details that remain hidden in normal scans. In this series, we showcase …
Looking for bad apples
Our FleX-ray Lab houses a unique X-ray machine that creates 3D scans of the most diverse objects. This allows us to reveal details that remain hidden in regular scans. In this series, …
The LEGO Turing machine
To honour the Alan Turing Year 2012, Turings centenary, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica organized the exhibition 'Turings Erfenis' (Turing's Legacy). Especially for this exhibition two CWI-researchers made a Turing machine out of …
DuckDB: Introducing a new class of data management systems
As CWI database architecture researchers, Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt invented a new, much more efficient database technology for analysis. After its introduction in 2021 it now reaches two million downloads per …
Negotiating with a robot
The American supermarket chain Walmart recently announced that it is using an AI chatbot to negotiate with suppliers. "This is just the beginning. Negotiation AI will become very big”, says CWI researcher …
Punched tape on display at CWI
Currently on display at CWI is a collection of punched tape, used for early computers, among others by the famous Edsger Dijkstra. It is temporarily replacing the ENIGMA machine, which can be …
Why does everybody hate databases?
Interview with CWI researcher Hannes Mühleisen about the birth of DuckDB, a database management system he co-developed for people who avoid working with traditional databases.
