28.07.2020 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media

Stor fremgang på IT-uddannelser - rekordhøjt optag af kvinder

I nat modtog 299 unge tilbud om optag på en af Aarhus Universitets Naturvidenskabelige IT-uddannelser. Alle tre uddannelser - Datalogi, IT Produktudvikling og Datavidenskab - har stor fremgang i antallet af ansøgere og lidt over 19% af de afsendte tilbud er til kvinder, hvilket er rekord.

06.07.2020 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media

Flot fremgang i ansøgere til IT-uddannelser

25 % flere har valgt AU’s IT-uddannelser som deres førsteprioritet. De tre uddannelser på Faculty of Natural Sciences – Datalogi, IT-Produktudvikling og Datavidenskab - ser alle ud til at få et rigtigt godt optag. Institut for Datalogi glæder sig over en stor fremgang i 1.prioritetsansøgere til uddannelserne i Datalogi og IT-Produktudvikling.…

02.07.2020 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage

Professor Anders Møller - new Vice Head of Department

We are greatful that Anders Møller has accepted the positions as new Vice Head of Department starting August 1st, 2020. Anders will take over from Kurt Jensen who has served in department management for almost 20 year. Anders says: "Our department is among the strongest Computer Science departments in Europe, both…

01.07.2020 | COBRA

Welcome to Adam B. Hansen who has joined COBRA as a PhD student from July 1, 2020.

29.06.2020 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media

Demonstration of prototypes by first-year students

Our first-year students recently demonstrated their prototypes from the IT product design course (check them all out in this Flicker album). This year, the students have been working with the theme “habits”, and have developed prototypes that via behavioral change can challenge our (bad) habits. Due to COVID-19 restrictions,…

22.06.2020 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media

Institut for Datalogi kan optage 30% flere studerende i 2020

11. juni offentliggjorde Uddannelses- og forskningsministeriet, at man vil øge optaget på en lang række videregående uddannelser i 2020 og 2021, fordi flere unge forventes at ville starte tidligt på en uddannelse pga. COVID-19. Aarhus Universitet har fået tildelt 539 af disse ekstra studiepladser som bl.a. fordeles på it-uddannelser, der kan…

16.06.2020 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage

CoronaLytics – health data from smartphones help us to better deal with corona

Innovation Fund Denmark supports the CoronaLytics project with 4 M DKK. From University of Aarhus, Professor Kaj Grønbæk of the Department of Computer Science and Professor Carsten Obel of the Institute of Public Health have received support from the Innovation Fund to analyze health data from smartphones and wearables. Their project,…

15.06.2020 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media

IT-Produktudviklere har lavet app med 10 mio. brugere

Det danske app start-up Reflectly har for nyligt rundet 10 mio. brugere. På tre år har de tre stiftere, hvoraf to har læst IT-Produktudvikling, udviklet virksomheden fra at være et Aarhusbaseret start-up til verdensledende spiller i sin kategori.

04.06.2020 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media, COBRA

PKC Test-of-Time Award to Ivan Damgård

Congratulations to Professor Ivan Damgård who yesterday was awarded the PKC (the Public Key Cryptography conference ) Test of Time Award. The award recognizes outstanding papers, published in PKC about 15 years ago, making a significant contribution to the theory and practice of public key cryptography, preferably with influence either on…

14.05.2020 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage, Awards, Research news

DIS 2020 Honorable Mention Award

Congratulations to Marianne Graves Petersen, Majken Rasmussen and Johan Trettvik who received the DIS 2020 Honorable Mention Award for their paper entitled "Affordances of Shape-Changing Interfaces: An Information Perspective on Transformability and Movement". Award winners are determined through a selective process.…