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EliteForsk travel grant to Ian Zerny
2012.02.09 | Featured, Frontpage
Ian Zerny was among the 3 PhD students from the AU, who receives the EliteForsk travel grant when Prince Joachim and education minister Morten Østergaard Thursday 9 February handed over this year’s EliteForsk grants at the Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
CTIC hosts students from Tsinghua University
2012.02.06 | Featured, Frontpage
During this Spring semester, six Chinese students from Tsinghua University are visiting CTIC (Center for the Theory of Interactive Computation) which is a cooperation between Aarhus University and Tsinghua University, Beijing. Wei Hu, Chengang Wu, Shiteng Chen, Chengu Wang and Zhen Zhong will work on approximation algorithms, analysis of Boolean…
EcoSense kick-off meeting
2012.01.20 | EcoSense, Featured, Frontpage
On February 7, 2012, a kick-off meeting is held to start up the new EcoSense project. The objectives of the meeting are among others to: Get an introduction to the research topics to be addressed, get an understanding of the company and green city challenges for the research effort, develop descriptions of the first use scenarios for the…
PhD calls - deadline February 1, 2012
2012.01.19 | EcoSense
Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship within the EcoSense project. We admit three PhD students related to the following research subjects from the project: 1) Collective Sensing methods for environmental indicators, 2) Data Mining and Macroscopic Analysis for time and location stamped data streams, 3) Visualization and…
Annual Report 2011
2011.12.20 | Featured, Frontpage
The head of department Kurt Jensen initiates the annual report 2011 with a huge thank to all employees followed by an overview of activities, prizes and new recruitments during 2011 as well as a collection of articles with some of the most important news of the year.
Money to increase the hospitals' patient flow and efficiency
2011.12.19 | Featured, Frontpage
The Ubiquitous Comp. and Interaction group has been granted 4m DKK from the National Adv. Tech. Foundation in cooperation with Systematic and hospitals in Aarhus and Aalborg to increase the patient flow and efficiency and make it easier to coordinate and plan the services at the hospitals based on positioning technologies and adaptive logistics.
Christian S. Jensen appointed as 2011 ACM Fellow
2011.12.13 | Frontpage, Featured
Christian S. Jensen has been appointed as 2011 ACM Fellow for his contributions to temporal and spatio-temporal data management. He is among the very few Danish researchers that from fellow researchers receive this distinction for his research within computer science.
Grant from the Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation maps the environmental footprint
2011.12.12 | Featured, Frontpage, EcoSense
The Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction group at the Department of Computer Science has recently been granted 18 million to the EcoSense project. In collaboration with leading environmental scientists they will develop technologies to measure, analyze and reduce the environmental footprint.
Opening of the last part of IT-Parken - the Nygaard building
2011.12.01 | Frontpage, Featured
Aarhus University marked the opening of the last part of IT-Parken with a reception on November 28. The opening of the Nygaard building is the beginning of a new story where Aarhus is in the front as a Smart City bearing in mind the success of IT Parken Katrinebjerg.
World Robot Olympiad 2011
2011.11.27 | Featured, Frontpage
The Department of Computer Science organized the Danish participation in the World Robot Olympiad 2011 (WRO). The competition was held Nov. 18-20 i Abu Dhabi (UAE) under the headline 'Robots for Life Improvement'. More than 1500 participants from 35 countries, competed in two categories 'Regular' and 'Open', and the participating teams from…
Aarhus University marks the completion of the IT Park
2011.11.25 | Featured, Frontpage
On Monday November 28, 2011 at 14:00 Aarhus University marks the completion of the IT Park. There will be speeches by Rector Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen, Director Ole Lehrmann Madsen, Alexandra Institute, Mayor Jacob Bundsgaard and Bent Hansen from the Central Denmark Region.
Torben Godsk featured on TV Østjylland
2011.11.11 | Frontpage
Torben Godsk, Industrial PhD student at the Department of Computer Science and the Knowledge Centre for Agriculture, Kasted was featured on TV2 Østjylland and TV2 Nyhederne November 10th. Torben tells the story about his results on activity recognition methods for analysing cow behavior based on recording of GPS traces of their movements.