Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
TypeNational research institute
Established1946 (1946)
PresidentProf.dr. A.G. de Kok
Administrative staff
~200
Location,
Websitewww.cwi.nl

The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (abbr. CWI; English: "National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science") is a research centre in the field of mathematics and theoretical computer science. It is part of the institutes organization of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and is located at the Amsterdam Science Park. This institute is famous as the creation site of the programming language Python. It was a founding member of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM).