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Supercomputer and AI to boost Danish cancer treatment – new project awarded €7 million

With a grant of over €7 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Grand AI Challenge, the…

New Head of Department at DIKU: “There must be room for curiosity-driven research”

As of 1 July 2025, Associate Professor Ken Friis Larsen will take up the position as Head of…

University of Copenhagen ranked No.1 in Europe for HCI research over the past decade

The HCI researchers at the University of Copenhagen have achieved a significant milestone: their…

Key building block missing to develop successful computer systems: Professor receives major grant to create it

The VILLUM Foundation is awarding Professor Kasper Hornbæk from the Department of Computer Science…

Danish researchers develop algorithms for mental health

With DKK 20 million in funding from the Lundbeck Foundation, a group of researchers will test how…

Professor Rasmus Pagh Receives International Recognition as ACM Fellow

Professor Rasmus Pagh has been named a 2024 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)…

Computer Science

Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone

More than one in four people currently integrate speech recognition into their daily lives. A new…

Coveted ERC Consolidator Grant goes to Associate Professor Bulat Ibragimov

The grant gives Bulat Ibragimov a solid push on the path to creating the first AI-guided toxicity…

Language Models

Ministry of Digital Affairs grants a total of 30.7 Million to ambitious Danish language model project

The University of Copenhagen, together with the University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus University,…

Ken Friis Larsen appointed as acting Head of Department at the Department of Computer Science

On 1 January 2025, Jakob Grue Simonsen will start as pro-rector at the IT University af Copenhagen…

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