On Friday 5 September 2014 the Department of Computer Science celebrated the retirement of Sven Skyum.
Sven Skyum has been part of Aarhus University since 1965. In 1971 he became the first student at DAIMI(Datalogisk Afdeling i Matematisk Institut), the forerunner of the Department of Computer Science. In the following decades, he played a key role in a broad research field that helped to establish the strongest computer science department in Denmark. Now he has retired but he will continue as a reader in Computer Sceince.