CWI is participating in the Amsterdam Science Park Open Day during Science Weekend. Enjoy a day filled with activities, demonstrations, and lectures. New activities have been added this year.

The new Call for Proposals is now open! CWI invites colleagues from Dutch universities to jointly develop proposals for CWI Research Semester Programmes.

On Thursday afternoon, 19 November, we are organizing a special edition of the queueing colloquium on the occasion of Mor Harchol Balter receiving the Van Wijngaarden Award ...

How can the Netherlands and Europe shape a distinctive approach to artificial intelligence — and what role can academic research play? CWI, the national research institute for mathematics and computer ...

UPDATE (1 October 2026): AI-BIPTO won the TKI Dinalog Impact Award at the Toekomst van Logistiek conference in Amersfoort on 29 September 2026. In current practice, transport and production planning ...

The reason quantum computers are prone to errors lies in the qubits they use. Whereas a conventional computer processes information using bits – zeros and ones – a quantum computer uses qubits, which ...

Freek Witteveen’s work sits at the intersection of physics, mathematics, and computer science – and he effectively aims to move ideas from one domain to another. Through the study of quantum tensor ...

Usually, these fundamentals consist of a course on formal languages and automata theory. Most of the time, the course is based on the computer model of the Turing machine. The Turing machine, which ...

American tech company Anthropic reported that its AI system Claude helped discover an attack on HAWK, an experimental digital signature system used to verify the authenticity of digital information ...

Researcher Wessel van Woerden has received a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to design compact digital ‘locks’ that protect systems against attacks by quantum computers. Van Woerden ...

The Netherlands depends on well-functioning energy systems, communication, transport and logistics. If one or more of these systems are disrupted for a prolonged period, this can have major ...

CWI doet mee aan de Amsterdam Science Park wetenschapsdag tijdens het weekend van de wetenschap. Waan je een dag met activiteiten, demonstraties en lezingen. Er zijn dit jaar andere activiteiten erbij ...