Martin Torp and Benjamin Barslev have both studied computer science, completed a PhD in the research group Programming Languages ​​and now they are emerging as entrepreneurs. Together have created JSFIX - a program that automates a complex process that can be a headache for millions of JavaScript programmers worldwide. The promising project is based on knowledge they have acquired during their education, and has so far secured them grants of DKK 2.5 million. Watch this short interview from their morning talk at The Kitchen.

Congratulations to PhD student Marius Hogräfer, postdoc Jens Emil Grønbæk, research assistant Jana Puschmann, videographer Sebastian Krog Knudsen, and associate professor Hans-Jörg Schulz who won the 2022 Cybercartography Competition at AGILE’22 Conference on Geographic Information Science. Their entry submission “MapBlender: Enabling Collaborative Cybercartography” convinced the jury and won them the first price. We have asked PhD student Marius Hogräfer to tell us some more about the competition and their submission.

This week, 31 international students from all across Europe visited the Department to learn if Aarhus University is the place to study their master in Computer Science. They had some great days with information about our 9 specializations, practical information about relocating to Denmark, and they also met with several companies to learn more about job opportunities in Denmark during and after their studies. See full program on cs.au.dk/visit2022. Thank you for visiting - we hope to meet you all again in August!

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.

Martin Torp and Benjamin Barslev have both studied computer science, completed a PhD in the research group Programming Languages ​​and now they are emerging as entrepreneurs. Together have created JSFIX - a program that automates a complex process that can be a headache for millions of JavaScript programmers worldwide. The promising project is based on knowledge they have acquired during their education, and has so far secured them grants of DKK 2.5 million. Watch this short interview from their morning talk at The Kitchen.

Congratulations to PhD student Marius Hogräfer, postdoc Jens Emil Grønbæk, research assistant Jana Puschmann, videographer Sebastian Krog Knudsen, and associate professor Hans-Jörg Schulz who won the 2022 Cybercartography Competition at AGILE’22 Conference on Geographic Information Science. Their entry submission “MapBlender: Enabling Collaborative Cybercartography” convinced the jury and won them the first price. We have asked PhD student Marius Hogräfer to tell us some more about the competition and their submission.

This week, 31 international students from all across Europe visited the Department to learn if Aarhus University is the place to study their master in Computer Science. They had some great days with information about our 9 specializations, practical information about relocating to Denmark, and they also met with several companies to learn more about job opportunities in Denmark during and after their studies. See full program on cs.au.dk/visit2022. Thank you for visiting - we hope to meet you all again in August!

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.