Congratulations to Professor Hans Gellersen who has been awarded a 2022 Humboldt Prize. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany awards these prizes to internationally renowned scientists and scholars from all disciplines in recognition of their career research achievements. Recipients are researchers whose fundamental discoveries, theories or findings have had a lasting effect on their discipline beyond their immediate research area. Professor Gellersen is known internationally for his research in the fields of Ubiquitous Computing and Human-Computer Interaction.

Researchers from Aarhus University have developed the browser extension Consent-O-Matic – a piece of software that automatically answers consent pop-ups for you. Experience shows that the time users spend responding to virtually the same consent pop-ups on different websites - every day - is drastically reduced with Consent-O-Matic installed. The browser extension already has 22,000 test users around the world, and now the browser extension is made publicly available for all interested users, and the developers expects a massive growth in number of Consent-O-Matic users.

On Friday, May 20 the Department of Computer Science, once again, hosted a successful ‘Katrinebjergs Karrieredag’ (Kdag), after two years of cancellations because of Covid-19. Like prior years, the popular event filled up the Peter Bøgh Auditory and considerable parts of the Nygaard building with 47 companies and hundreds of IT students.

We are happy to present, Lene Hjøllund as the new Chief Adviser and Head of Secretariat at Department of Computer Science.

Lene is educated economist (Msc Economics/Cand. Oecon) and has been employed at Aarhus University since 2002, where she has worked closely with the academic management in various functions, both as Chief Adviser at the faculty level at Business and Social Science, and since 2016 she has been the Head of Secretariat at Department of Political Science.

We are proud to announce that PhD student Adam Blatchley Hansen has been appointed assistant coach for Denmark's ​​National Cyber Team. The ​​National Cyber Team is composed of 10 young IT talents, who are selected via competitions at the Danish Cyber ​​Championships. Together with head coach Jens Myrup Pedersen, Adam will help get the team to the top at international competitions.

Congratulations to assistant professor Sophia Yakoubov, associate professor Panagiotis Karras and professor Ioannis Caragiannis who have received funding from Independent Research Fund Denmark to support their research. Every year, the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) grants funding for hundreds of research projects. This year, 210 researchers across all scientific disciplines have received support from the Danish Independent Research Foundation.

Last week, Independent Research Fund Denmark celebrated the new Sapere Aude Research Leaders at a ceremony in Copenhagen. We are cheering for all of them, but a little bit extra for our own assistant professors Davide Mottin and Chris Rene Schwiegelshohn 🎉 Two young and ambitious researchers you should keep an eye on.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Andreas Pavlogiannis who attended the official Villum Young Investigator ceremony yesterday 🎉 Computers play a central role in modern society, but failures in software can have devastating and far-reaching effects. For this reason, software verification is vital for responsible software development. Yet, modern systems are extremely difficult to verify at scale. In his Villum project, Pavlogiannis will develop new algorithmic foundations and software tools for verification of modern concurrent software, towards a provably trustworthy digital society.

Workfeed, which started in Hatch-It Lab, has received a double-digit million investment, which provides new opportunities to scale the company and expand into new markets. The investment comes from Le Mans racing driver, IT programmer and multimillionaire David Heinemeier Hansson, Vækstfonden and CEO of Vivino, Heini Zachariassen. In total Workfeed receives DKK 11 million.

Today opens Denmark's new innovative ecosystem within Big Data, AI, and Internet of Things (IoT) - Digital Energy Hub. The goal of the Digital Energy Hub is to accelerate the green transition of the energy sector. Not only in Denmark, but all over the world. The project aims to accelerate the green transition of the energy sector. A Data Lake-centered innovation ecosystem will ensure coordination and synergy between stakeholders and provide the basis for enhanced innovation strength and competitiveness of Danish companies, primarily in the digital sector and the energy sector.

The Department is excited about being part of the Digital Energy Hub.

Congratulations to Professor Hans Gellersen who has been awarded a 2022 Humboldt Prize. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany awards these prizes to internationally renowned scientists and scholars from all disciplines in recognition of their career research achievements. Recipients are researchers whose fundamental discoveries, theories or findings have had a lasting effect on their discipline beyond their immediate research area. Professor Gellersen is known internationally for his research in the fields of Ubiquitous Computing and Human-Computer Interaction.

Researchers from Aarhus University have developed the browser extension Consent-O-Matic – a piece of software that automatically answers consent pop-ups for you. Experience shows that the time users spend responding to virtually the same consent pop-ups on different websites - every day - is drastically reduced with Consent-O-Matic installed. The browser extension already has 22,000 test users around the world, and now the browser extension is made publicly available for all interested users, and the developers expects a massive growth in number of Consent-O-Matic users.

On Friday, May 20 the Department of Computer Science, once again, hosted a successful ‘Katrinebjergs Karrieredag’ (Kdag), after two years of cancellations because of Covid-19. Like prior years, the popular event filled up the Peter Bøgh Auditory and considerable parts of the Nygaard building with 47 companies and hundreds of IT students.

We are happy to present, Lene Hjøllund as the new Chief Adviser and Head of Secretariat at Department of Computer Science.

Lene is educated economist (Msc Economics/Cand. Oecon) and has been employed at Aarhus University since 2002, where she has worked closely with the academic management in various functions, both as Chief Adviser at the faculty level at Business and Social Science, and since 2016 she has been the Head of Secretariat at Department of Political Science.

We are proud to announce that PhD student Adam Blatchley Hansen has been appointed assistant coach for Denmark's ​​National Cyber Team. The ​​National Cyber Team is composed of 10 young IT talents, who are selected via competitions at the Danish Cyber ​​Championships. Together with head coach Jens Myrup Pedersen, Adam will help get the team to the top at international competitions.

Congratulations to assistant professor Sophia Yakoubov, associate professor Panagiotis Karras and professor Ioannis Caragiannis who have received funding from Independent Research Fund Denmark to support their research. Every year, the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) grants funding for hundreds of research projects. This year, 210 researchers across all scientific disciplines have received support from the Danish Independent Research Foundation.

Last week, Independent Research Fund Denmark celebrated the new Sapere Aude Research Leaders at a ceremony in Copenhagen. We are cheering for all of them, but a little bit extra for our own assistant professors Davide Mottin and Chris Rene Schwiegelshohn 🎉 Two young and ambitious researchers you should keep an eye on.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Andreas Pavlogiannis who attended the official Villum Young Investigator ceremony yesterday 🎉 Computers play a central role in modern society, but failures in software can have devastating and far-reaching effects. For this reason, software verification is vital for responsible software development. Yet, modern systems are extremely difficult to verify at scale. In his Villum project, Pavlogiannis will develop new algorithmic foundations and software tools for verification of modern concurrent software, towards a provably trustworthy digital society.

Workfeed, which started in Hatch-It Lab, has received a double-digit million investment, which provides new opportunities to scale the company and expand into new markets. The investment comes from Le Mans racing driver, IT programmer and multimillionaire David Heinemeier Hansson, Vækstfonden and CEO of Vivino, Heini Zachariassen. In total Workfeed receives DKK 11 million.

Today opens Denmark's new innovative ecosystem within Big Data, AI, and Internet of Things (IoT) - Digital Energy Hub. The goal of the Digital Energy Hub is to accelerate the green transition of the energy sector. Not only in Denmark, but all over the world. The project aims to accelerate the green transition of the energy sector. A Data Lake-centered innovation ecosystem will ensure coordination and synergy between stakeholders and provide the basis for enhanced innovation strength and competitiveness of Danish companies, primarily in the digital sector and the energy sector.

The Department is excited about being part of the Digital Energy Hub.