Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica















Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
TypeNational research institute
Established1946
PresidentJ. C. M. Baeten
Administrative staff
~200
Location
Amsterdam
,
Netherlands

Websitewww.cwi.nl
CWI logo

The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (abbr. CWI; English: "National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science") is a research center in the field of mathematics and theoretical computer science. It is part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and is located at the Amsterdam Science Park. This institute is famous as the creation ground of the Python Programming Language. It was a founding member of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM).




Contents





  • 1 Early history


  • 2 Recent research


  • 3 European Internet


  • 4 Spin-off companies


  • 5 Software and languages


  • 6 Notable people


  • 7 References


  • 8 External links




Early history


The institute was founded in 1946 by Johannes van der Corput, David van Dantzig, Jurjen Koksma, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Marcel Minnaert and Jan Arnoldus Schouten. It was originally called Mathematical Centre (in Dutch: Mathematisch Centrum). One early mission was to develop mathematical prediction models to assist large Dutch engineering projects, such as the Delta Works. During this early period, the Mathematics Institute also helped with designing the wings of the Fokker F27 Friendship airplane, voted in 2006 as the most beautiful Dutch design of the 20th century.[citation needed]


The computer science component developed soon after. Adriaan van Wijngaarden, considered the founder of computer science (or informatica) in the Netherlands, was the director of the institute for almost 20 years. Edsger Dijkstra did most of his early influential work on algorithms and formal methods at CWI. The first Dutch computers, the Electrologica X1 and Electrologica X8, were both designed at the centre, and Electrologica was created as a spinoff to manufacture the machines.


In 1983, the name of the institute was changed to CWI to reflect a governmental push for emphasizing computer science research in the Netherlands.[1]



Recent research


The institute is known for its work in fields such as operations research, software engineering, information processing, and mathematical applications in life sciences and logistics.
More recent examples of research results from CWI include the development of scheduling algorithms for the Dutch railway system (the Nederlandse Spoorwegen, one of the busiest rail networks in the world) and the development of the Python programming language by Guido van Rossum. Python has played an important role in the development of the Google search platform from the beginning, and it continues to do so as the system grows and evolves.[2]
Many information retrieval techniques used by packages such as SPSS were initially developed by Data Distilleries, a CWI spinoff.[3][4]


Work at the institute was recognized by national or international research awards, such as the Lanchester Prize (awarded yearly by INFORMS), the Gödel Prize (awarded by ACM SIGACT) or the Spinoza Prize. Most of its senior researchers hold part-time professorships at other Dutch universities, with the institute producing over 170 full professors during the course of its history. Several CWI researchers have been recognized as members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Europaea, or as knights in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.[5]


In February 2017, CWI in association with Google announced a successful collision attack on SHA 1 encryption algorithm.[6]



European Internet


CWI was an early user of the Internet in Europe. The first connection in Europe to the NSFnet network, which later developed into the Internet, was established at CWI on 17 November 1988 by Piet Beertema, and cwi.nl was the first national domain name ever issued.[7]


The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (one of the largest Internet Exchanges in the world, in terms of both members and throughput traffic) is located at the neighbouring SARA (an early CWI spin-off) and NIKHEF institutes. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) office for the Benelux countries is located at CWI.[8]



Spin-off companies


CWI has demonstrated a continuing effort to put the work of its researchers at the disposal of society, mainly by collaborating with commercial companies and creating spin-off businesses. In 2000 CWI established "CWI Incubator BV", a dedicated company with the aim to generate high tech spin-off companies.[9] Some of the CWI spinoffs include:[10]


  • 1956: Electrologica, a pioneering Dutch computer manufacturer.

  • 1971: SARA, founded as a center for data processing activities for Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, and the CWI.

  • 1990: DigiCash, an electronic money corporation founded by David Chaum.

  • 1994: NLnet, an Internet Service Provider.

  • 1994: General Design / Satama Amsterdam, a design company, acquired by LBi (then Lost Boys international).

  • 1995: Data Distilleries, developer of analytical database software aimed at information retrieval, eventually becoming part of SPSS and acquired by IBM.

  • 1996: Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (SIDN), the .nl top-level domain registrar.

  • 2000: Software Improvement Group (SIG), a software improvement and legacy code analysis company.

  • 2008: MonetDB, a high-tech database technology company, developer of the MonetDB column-store.

  • 2008: Vectorwise, an analytical database technology company, founded in cooperation with the Ingres Corporation (now Actian) and eventually acquired by it.

  • 2010: Spinque, a company providing search technology for information retrieval specialists.

  • 2013: MonetDB Solutions, a database services company.

  • 2016: Seita, a technology company providing demand response services for the energy sector.


Software and languages


  • ABC programming language

  • Algol 60

  • Algol 68


  • Alma-0, a multi-paradigm computer programming language


  • ASF+SDF Meta Environment, programming language specification and prototyping system, IDE generator

  • Cascading Style Sheets

  • MonetDB

  • NetHack

  • Python programming language


  • RascalMPL, general purpose meta programming language

  • RDFa

  • SMIL

  • van Wijngaarden grammar

  • XForms

  • XHTML

  • XML Events


Notable people



  • Adrian Baddeley

  • Theo Bemelmans

  • Piet Beertema

  • Jan Bergstra

  • Gerrit Blaauw

  • Peter Boncz

  • Hugo Brandt Corstius

  • Stefan Brands

  • Andries Brouwer

  • Harry Buhrman

  • Dick Bulterman

  • David Chaum

  • Ronald Cramer

  • Theodorus Dekker

  • Edsger Dijkstra

  • Constance van Eeden

  • Peter van Emde Boas

  • Richard D. Gill

  • Jan Friso Groote

  • Dick Grune

  • Michiel Hazewinkel

  • Jan Hemelrijk

  • Martin L. Kersten

  • Willem Klein

  • Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma

  • Kees Koster

  • Monique Laurent

  • Gerrit Lekkerkerker

  • Arjen Lenstra

  • Jan Karel Lenstra

  • Gijsbert de Leve

  • Barry Mailloux

  • Lambert Meertens

  • Rob Mokken

  • Albert Nijenhuis

  • Steven Pemberton

  • Herman te Riele

  • Guido van Rossum

  • Alexander Schrijver

  • Jan H. van Schuppen

  • Marc Stevens

  • John Tromp

  • John V. Tucker

  • Paul Vitányi

  • Hans van Vliet

  • Marc Voorhoeve

  • Adriaan van Wijngaarden

  • Ronald de Wolf

  • Peter Wynn



References




  1. ^ Bennie Mols: ERCOM: The Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica turns 60. In: Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society, No. 56 (September 2007), p. 43 (online)


  2. ^ "Quotes about Python". Python.org. Retrieved 2012-07-13..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  3. ^ "SPSS and Data Destileries". Python.org. Archived from the original on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2015-02-24.


  4. ^ Sumath, S; Sivanandam, S.N. (2006). Introduction to Data Mining and its Applications. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 743. ISBN 978-3-540-34350-9. Retrieved 2015-02-24.


  5. ^ "Lex Schrijver receives EURO Gold Medal 2015". cwi. 2013-04-25. Retrieved 2018-02-19.


  6. ^ Announcing the first SHA1 collision


  7. ^ (in Dutch) De geschiedenis van SIDN Archived 2013-07-27 at the Wayback Machine. (History of SIDN), Official website of SIDN


  8. ^ "The World Wide Web Consortium - Benelux Office". W3C. Retrieved 2014-07-08.


  9. ^ "Spin-off companies' details". CWI Amsterdam. Retrieved 2014-07-08.


  10. ^ "Spin-off companies". CWI Amsterdam. Retrieved 2014-07-08.




External links


  • Official website

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