ERCIM News 112
January 2018
Special theme Quantum Computing
Guest editors Jop Briët (CWI) and Simon Perdrix (CNRS, LORIA)
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ERCIM is a great organisation with a lot of potential. I am proud that I am the third CWI director since ERCIM’s foundation in 1989 who has become a President of ERCIM, after Cor Baayen and Gerard van Oortmerssen. I will outline my ideas on ERCIM’s strategy below.
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Announcement
Tim Baarslag from CWI was selected as the winner of the 2017 ERCIM Cor Baayen Award, in a very tough competition with 15 finalists. The award committee recognises Tim’s skills and the results that he has achieved. His enthusiasm for internationally oriented research cooperation, his talent for recognising the potential use of mathematical tools, and his cooperative skills make him a young researcher of outstanding quality.
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Announcement
ERCIM established a new Working Group Blockchain Technology to study the potential of this technology for a range of application fields in industry and public administration. First chairperson of the Working Group is Wolfgang Prinz from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT.