CWI's computer scientist Ronald de Wolf can spend 200,000 euro on quantum computing research. Together with 83 young scientists he received a Veni subsidy from NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research on March 29. Computers using quantum mechanical effects are more powerful than today's computers. De Wolf studies new applications for these futuristic computers: New quantum algorithms but also quantum proof methods to analyze classical computers.
With this Veni grant, CWI's Quantum Computing and Advanced Systems Research group (INS4) is the first group in computer science to receive all three 'Vernieuwingsimpuls' grants: Veni, Vidi and Vici. In August last year, Peter Grünwald received a Vidi grant for his research to improve statistical learning methods and in January 2004 Harry Buhrman received a Vici grant to strengthen his INS4 research group.
More information can be found on INS4's website, Ronald de Wolf's homepage or NWO's information (in Dutch)
