Instrument physicist Chris Duif works with neutrons at the Reactor Institute Delft. But during his train commutes, he wrote a thriller about the Brussels lab where he used to work: Cracks in the Future.
The QNodeOS operating system transforms quantum networks from a theoretical concept into a usable technology. QuTech and its European partners from the Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) have published this breakthrough in Nature.
Calls for Europe to develop open-source cloud services as an alternative to the dominance of American tech giants are becoming more frequent. But how exactly does ‘open source’ differ from big tech?
In his first month as President of the United States, Donald Trump was responsible for the dismissal of thousands of employees from renowned American scientific institutions. Researchers at TU Delft are also feeling the effects.
Acting as prosecutors and defenders, Industrial Design Engineering students faced off in the ‘courtroom’ this January. The case in question: the role of AI in design education. Lecturer Fernando Secomandi saw how his mock trial method forced students to think deeply. “This could work in other faculties too.”
Universities have become too dependent on large American IT companies, many researchers believe. They wonder if there is still a way back. In February, five Dutch universities will launch a trial with the NextCloud open source platform. What if this proves successful?