2020.08.25 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
Former Operations Manager at CS and Alumni Peder Chr. Nørgaard has passed away on August 18th, 2020 in the age of 65.
2020.08.24 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Can discrimination in algorithms be eliminated? PhD student Simon Enni took part in the discussion in Deadline on 22 August. The topic was raised in the wake of major protests against an algorithm that was used to provide characters in England but proved to discriminate against students from vulnerable groups. Click on the link to see the full…
2020.08.13 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Professor Susanne Bødker is one of 24 new council members at Independent Research Fund Denmark. Susanne is part of the academic council for Technology and Production. She joins Lars Birkedal who already is a member of the council for Nature & Universe. Congratulations!
2020.08.11 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
With the corona pandemic, many customers demand touch-free check-in at hotels. This has increased the interest in Aeroguest’s (started by CS alumni Martin Sponholtz) touch-free services for hotels. Read more about Aeroguest’s growth-adventure [article in Danish]
2020.07.30 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
Hans Gellersen joined the department as a professor in the beginning of 2020. He started his career at the University of Karlsruhe, where he completed a PhD in Computer Science in 1996 and led an independent research group until 2001. At the time, he conducted early research into context-aware computing and initiated the Ubiquitous computing…
2020.07.30 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
On July 28, 299 young people received offers for admission to one of Aarhus University's Natural Sciences IT degree programs. All three programs - Computer Science, IT Product Development and Data Science - have made great progress in the number of applicants, and a little more than 19% of the submitted offers are for female students, which is a…
2020.07.07 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
25% more have chosen one of Aarhus University’s IT progammes as their first priority. The three programs at the Faculty of Natural Sciences - Computer Science, IT Product Development and Data Science - all seem to be getting good admission. The Department of Computer Science has received a large increase in first priority applicants to both…
2020.07.02 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
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 regarding research and…
2020.06.29 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
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, they were not able…
2020.06.22 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
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…
2020.10.09 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
The new COronaVIDen app is a research app that collects activity data from smartphones, smartwatches and fitnessbands. Researchers from Department of Computer Science participate in the research project that analyse the collected activity and questionnaire data from citizens.
2020.09.29 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
In the 10/2020 edition of the magazine Communications of the ACM, associate professor Kasper Green Larsens’ paper Lower Bounds for External Memory Integer Sorting via Network Coding is featured as a research highlight.
2020.09.28 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Congratulations to Assistant professors Carsten Baum and Peter Scholl, who have received DKK 4.5 million for their part of the project “Fromager”, in which they will collaborate with researchers from Galois, Qed.IT, Columbia University, and KU Leuven. The aim of the project is to develop highly efficient zero-knowledge proofs…
2020.09.25 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
On October 7, alumnus and honorary professor Bjarne Stroustrup will visit the department to give a talk about the aims and status of modern C++.
2020.09.23 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
Chris Schwiegelshohn did his PhD in Germany and subsequently went to the University of Sapienza in Rome; first as a postdoc and later as a faculty member. He recently joined Aarhus as a tenure track assistant professor in the Algorithms and Data Structure group. Chris' research interests mainly cover algorithms and machine…
2020.09.17 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
Cigdem Aslay started as an Assistant Professor in the Data Intensive Systems group on September 1, 2020. She received her PhD from the University of Pompeu Fabra in December 2016 under the supervision of Francesco Bonchi and Ricardo Baeza Yates. During her PhD, she was hosted by Yahoo Research Barcelona Lab as a PhD student in the Web Mining…
2020.09.17 | Public/media, Featured, CS frontpage
Ioannis Caragiannis joined the department as a professor in August 2020. Before coming to Aarhus, he was a faculty member at the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics of the University of Patras (since 2006). His research interests include design and analysis of algorithms (in particular, approximation and online algorithms),…
2020.09.08 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Over the summer, 13 new PhD students have joined the department. Yesterday, head of the PhD programme Anders Møller invited them all to a welcome meeting. Welcome, we look forward to working with all of you, and learning more about your exciting research!
2020.09.07 | CPV
On Sept. 1, Sergei joined CVP as a PhD student. Sergei finished his bachelor degree at the Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. During his final year, Sergei worked as a Haskell programmer. For his thesis, Sergei worked on the formalization of term-rewriting systems in Arend.
2020.09.02 | CS frontpage, Featured, Public/media
Congratulations to Professor Jaco van der Pol for winning the FORMATS2020 best paper award at QONFEST2020, for the paper “Certifying Emptiness of Timed Büchi Automata", which is co-written with Simon Wimmer and Frédéric Herbreteau!
