At this year's ESORICS conference in Egham, UK, Professor Ivan Bjerre Damgård received best paper award together with Valerio Pastro and researchers from Bristol University.

Liam Bannon is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland, Honorary Professor at the Department of Computer Science,and also part of the Participatory Information Technology Centre at Aarhus University.

Professor Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke University, USA, is a leader in the computer science field of big data on an international scale. In connection with Aarhus University’s annual celebration on 13 September, he has been appointed honorary doctor at Science and Technology.

In these days 225 new students start at the Department of Computer Science which is the highest number ever.

In the past two weeks, the AU's Center for Participatory IT has hosted a summer school "SummerPIT". The center has had guests from home and abroad, including several PhD candidates.

The Danish National Research Foundation Center for the Theory of Interactive Computation (CTIC) has just been extended research grant until 2017. CTIC is a collaboration between Computer Science, Aarhus University and Tsinghua University.

Robert (Bob) Endre Tarjan is one of the main attractions at MADALGO Summer school 2013 on Data Structures. Bob Tarjan was the 1986 co-recipient of the ACM Turing Award.

On August 19.22, 2013 the Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO) will repeat the success from 2012 and host yet another summer school.

In January 2014, researchers from the “Cryptography and Security” group of the Department of Computer Science of Aarhus University contacted Nets DanID A/S to receive a database of the public keys of all Danish NemID users, with the goal of checking whether NemID public keys were vulnerable to attacks.

The Hyperkinetic Kayak is the result of a collaboration between the artist Jette Gejl, Peter Møller-Nielsen from Department of Computer Science and Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction (CAVI). It is included in an exhibition in Scandinavia House in New York under the common title "Voyage to the Virtual". The exhibition is open from 24. January 2015 to 4. April 2015.

Researchers have just shown that it is relatively simple to reidentify people based on a few details about the use of credit cards when the data sets are anonymised. The work has just been published in the renowned journal Science.

CS STaff Club invites you to watch The Imitation Game together with your colleagues. Before the movie Ivan Damgaard will make a short introduction to Alan Turing and we will serve a glass of wine.

CS has bought two bicycles, which can be borrowed, for example, if you are going for a meeting elsewhere at AU, to a meeting in town or just want to go for a ride.

Assistant Profssor Peyman Afshani (MADALGO, Aarhus University) has received a 288,000 DKK framework grant from The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation

The Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction group at the Department of Computer Science and the Alexandra Institute have developed THE | BOUNCER - the world's first interactive ballgame and training system that uses balls and rebounder frames.

The health care system will be challenged in many areas: There are several people with a chronic illness, the new hospital buildings mean fewer beds and a longer distance to the hospitals. At the same time the citizens to an increasing extent want to be active.

Thomas Dueholm Hansen has received a 1,250,000 DKK postdoc grant from the Carlsberg Foundation.