Netherlands eScience Center

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The Netherlands eScience Center — the Dutch national centre of expertise for research software.

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Nov 6, 2025

From PhD Student to Auto-Tuning GPU Expert. Meet Floris-Jan.

Floris-Jan Willemsen has been a PhD student at the Netherlands eScience Center since 2021, working on auto-tuning GPU software as part of the CORTEX project under the supervision of Rob van Nieuwpoort...

Jul 23, 2020

Get up to speed with software sustainability — the WOSSS19 report and a look to the future

The audience discussed topics raised by the introductions, and as part of this they wrote material for the report in a process adapted from the speed blogging approach. Those who spoke or contributed...

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Jun 8, 2020

Evidence for the importance of research software

● Recognising the importance of software in research: Research Software Engineers (RSEs), a UK example — Study is a case study that discusses the current challenges faced by RSEs and policy conclusion...

eScience

Apr 2, 2020

Can we teach AI’s speech by simulating young children’s ability to learn spoken language?

8 Today, we can´t imagine life without voice controlled intelligent systems such as Siri, Google Assistant, car navigation systems and other applications. Such systems use a speech understanding compo...

Nov 28, 2019

Accelerating the search for dark matter

Astronomical observations show that roughly 80% of the mass of the universe is made up of dark matter, a material that cannot be directly observed because emits no light or energy. Although dark matte...

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