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And the nominees are....
03.05.2012 | Featured, Frontpage
On Computer Science Day 2012 on May 25, the Department of Computer Science will award "The teacher of the year" prize for the first time. The nominees for this year's prize are: Gudmund Frandsen, Ivan Damgaard, Gerth Brodal, Olivier Danvy and Jesper Buus Nielsen.
Facebook on charm offensive at the Department of Computer Science
01.05.2012 | Featured, Frontpage
We're hiring - a message which is understandable. The sender is Facebook who showed up on April 26 to find the absolute best software students.
Danish Minister experienced research at eye level
25.04.2012 | Featured, Frontpage
On this year’s Festival of Research both computer scientists from the EcoSense project and MADALGO got the opportunity to show the Danish Minister of Science, Innovation and Higher Education how computer science research addresses this year's theme of Europe's challenges.
Google Anita Borg Memorial for Ph.D. Students at Computer Science
24.04.2012 | Featured, Frontpage
For the second year running two female Ph.D. Students at Computer Science receive Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholars. This year the first-year Ph.D. Students Barbora Micenkova and Simina Branzel are among the winners. The award focuses on breaking down barriers and aims for more women in computing. Barbora Micenkova‘s main research interest lies…
Close collaboration with leading Chinese university
23.04.2012 | Featured, Frontpage
The elite Tsinghua University in China and Aarhus University have now signed an extension of their existing cooperation agreement, a so-called “Memorandum of Understanding”, with both universities being committed to closer collaboration with regard to research and education. Tsinghua University is consistently ranked as one of the very best…
Workshop on Theory and Practice of Multiparty Computation
19.04.2012 | Featured, Frontpage
On June 4-8, 2012 the Department of Computer Science hosts a workshop on Theory and Practice of Multiparty Computation. Secure Multiparty Computation is a powerful cryptographic notion that - in theory - can solve virtually any cryptographic protocol problem. In recent years, the technology has been used in practice and holds great promise for…
Festival of Research
18.04.2012 | Featured, Frontpage
Under the theme of this year’s Festival of Research, ”Europe’s challenges”, computer science researchers from both the EcoSense project and MADALGO will demonstrate how their research can contribute to solutions.
Security as a hobby cleared the way to Google's ”Hall of fame”
22.03.2012 | Frontpage
A boring Saturday evening. What else to do than to go through Google's source code for security gaps if you have the skills for that? That is what PhD student Anders Skovsgaard did, and he discovered an important security gap and fixed it for Google. An initiative that made him 500 dollars richer and placed him on Google's Hall of fame.
PhD student in Nairobi to assure high level of quality
12.03.2012 | Featured, Frontpage
PhD student Anders Skovsgaard has just returned from a Startup weekend in Nairobi, where about 100 locals (primary from Nairoby University) should start up a firm in 54 hours. Microsoft paid for his participation to assure a high level of quality.
The gorilla genome reveals that our origin is a genetic patchwork
12.03.2012 | Featured, Frontpage
An international team of researchers with the participation of Aarhus University, among these Thomas Mailund from Center for Bioinformatik (BiRC), has carried out the first complete sequencing of the gorilla’s genome.