News 2016

Dissemination Award, Computer Science

2016.12.07

A dedicated Computer Scientist receives the SCIENCE Dissemination award 2016

The recipient of this year's SCIENCE Dissemination Award is a strong advocate in favour of…

Hacking

2016.11.17

Ken Friis Larsen about the campaign 'Denmark needs more hackers'

Associate professor at Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen Ken Friis Larsen…

Digitisation

2016.11.01

Digitisation of Danish literature is possible - and necessary

According to Jeppe Eimose Waagstein, PhD student at DIKU, it's both technically, economically, and…

Best Paper Award

2016.10.26

Asja Fischer and Christian Igel win Best Paper Award

Former PhD student at DIKU Asja Fischer and DIKU's Professor Christian Igel have won the Pattern…

Kulturnat 2016

2016.10.18

Science was a hit at Culture Night 2016

On 18 October there was Culture Night in Copenhagen and Department of Computer Science (DIKU)…

Programming Contest, Danish Champions

2016.10.10

DIKU Team Lambdabamserne wins Danish Programming Championship 2016

For the sixth time in seven years DIKU based student programmers known as #Lambdabamserne secured…

Portrait

2016.09.22

Portrait: Meet DIKU's professor Anders Soegaard at DIKU Alumni Day

Meet Anders Søgaard, Head of the Natural Languages Processing Research Group (NLP) at DIKU. He will…

Portrait

2016.09.15

Portrait: Meet Sitecore’s CEO Michael Seifert at DIKU Alumni Day

Michael Seifert is the co-founder and CEO of the Danish software developing company Sitecore. He…

professortiltrædelse

2016.06.20

Jakob Grue Simonsen's professor inaugural lecture - see the pictures

On Thursday 16 June 2016 DIKU's new professor Jakob Grue Simonsen was inaugurated. See pictures and…

innovation prize

2016.06.20

DIKU's Stephen Alstrup nominated for the UCPH innovation prize 2016

The nominations for the 2016 Awards of UCPH have ticked in and you can now see who have been…

DIKU Careeer Fair 2016

2016.05.20

The 2016 DIKU Career Fair attracted Computer Science students as well as students from related studies

23 IT companies presented their career opportunities and project suggestions to approx. 200 student…

CHI 2016

2016.03.18

A record breaking number of DIKU papers accepted at CHI 2016

At this year’s ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI – pronounced KAI) - the…

Women in focus

2016.03.08

Former associate professor at DIKU Julia Lawall is among the nominees for Red Hat Women in Open Source Award 2016

Former associate professor at DIKU Julia Lawall was nominated for the Red Hat Women in Open Source…

obituary

2016.02.25

Former Associate Professor at DIKU Hasse Clausen is dead

Obituary on former Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhage…

ELITE RESEARCH PRIZES 2016

2016.02.25

Elite Research Travelling Scholarship awarded to DIKU PhD Fellow in Computer Science

On 25 February 2016 the prestigious Elite Research prize awards celebrate their first decennium. Th…

Big Data, DABAI

2016.02.11

New research centre DABAI will create innovation through Big Data

In a large alliance with Danish universities, public and private organisations, the Computer Scienc…

CYBER SECURITY

2016.02.08

DIKU student wins new Cyber Security award

Hauke Jan Lübbers has crafted the idea that will make internet browsers warn you when you visit a…

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

2016.02.04

An important code in the field of artificial intelligence has been cracked

In 1992 a computer managed to beat a human professional in Backgammon – since then also Draughts,…

EATCS Award

2016.02.02

Dexter Kozen, guest professor at DIKU last year, has received EATCS Award 2016

Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) receives the EATCS Award 2016 for his fundamental…

Lloyd's Science of Risk prize

2016.01.21

Ingemar Cox receives a distinguished runner-up prize

DIKU's Professor Ingemar Cox in collaboration with a research team from Microsoft Research,…

Paper award

2016.01.21

Ingemar Cox receives Sustained Impact Paper Award

Together with Joe Kilian, Frank Thomson Leighton and Talal Shamoon, Ingemar Cox recieved the IEEE…

PhD defence

2016.01.19

Oswin Krause new PhD from DIKU

January 8 Oswin Krause defended his PhD dissertation entitled "Distribution Learning in Evolutionar…

Peter Natur, Turing Award

2016.01.05

ACM News: In Memoriam: Peter Naur 1928-2016

Peter Naur, a Danish computer scientist and 2005 recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award for…

Peter Naur, computer science

2016.01.05

Famous Danish computer scientist Professor Peter Naur dead

Peter Naur, a great Danish scientist and the first Danish professor in Computer Science at…

jobopslag

2015.12.17

Vacant position at Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen (DIKU)

Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen (DIKU) seeks a Tenure-Track Assistant…

PH.D. Forsvar

2015.12.15

Andreas Maniotis new PhD from DIKU

Monday 14 December Andreas Maniotis defended his PhD dissertation entitled "A…