Department of Computer Science

News 2017

New CCC Management Team – New CCC Vision

2017.12.06

Centre for Communication and Computing (CCC) is pleased to announce the appointment of the new…
Research at eye level for DIKU students

2017.12.05

Friday. Lunch. Research. Lectures. These words sum up the new lecture series, DIKU Bits. A lecture…
What’s next within robotics and AI? How about soft robots for household purposes?

2017.11.30

A new research project for development of AI based simulators for controlling ‘soft robots’ has bee…
Kenny Erleben receives Best Short Paper Award at MIG'17

2017.11.27

Kenny Erleben, Associate professor at DIKU, has received the Best Short Paper Award at ACM SIGGRAPH…
Associate Professor at DIKU Christian Wulff-Nilsen receives major grant for research in algorithms

2017.11.22

With a Sapere Aude Starting Grant of nearly 6m DKK (0.9m USD) from The Independent Research Fund…
Jacob Holm receives Best Paper Award at SODA’18

2017.11.21

PhD student at DIKU Jacob Holm has in cooperation with Aaron Bernstein (Columbia University, USA)…
BARC is off to a flying start with 10 accepted papers for SODA'18

2017.11.02

No less than 10 papers authored or co-authored by members of the new research centre at DIKU, Basic…
Best-Ever Algorithm Found for Huge Streams of Data

2017.10.31

Mikkel Thorup of University of Copenhagen and Kasper Green Larsen of University of Aarhus are…
Lambdabamserne defended their title as Danish Programming Champions 2017

2017.10.25

Once again the Danish (and Nordic) Championship in programming - Nordic Collegiate Programming…
Who will become the next Danish Champions in Programming 2017?

2017.10.02

The interest of winning this year's Danish championship for CS students in programming is to be…
Experts in big graph analysis systems met up at DIKU

2017.08.30

The workshop in Big Graph Analysis Systems on 21-22 August 2017 collected renowned international…
Computer Science at UCPH makes a giant jump up the ARWU ranking list

2017.08.23

Computer Science at University of Copenhagen has jumped from a position as 49 to 11 on the ARWU…
Computer Science bachelor enrolment at University of Copenhagen increases by 30%

2017.07.28

242 applicants have been offered a seat for the bachelor's programme in computer science. This…
High School Students! Don't cheat! You'll get busted eventually

2017.06.21

More than 6% of the Danish high school pupils cheat with assignments or at their final exams. Some…
Mikkel Abrahamsen gets four papers accepted at SoCG

2017.06.16

DIKU's PhD student Mikkel Abrahamsen is the first researcher in Denmark, who gets four papers…
Operating smart devices from the space on and above the back of your hand

2017.05.04

Operate your smart watch without touching it! Anders Markussen and Sebastian Boring at University o…
New centre of excellence in algorithms research in Copenhagen

2017.03.20

With a grant of DKK 40m from the VILLUM Investigator Programme, four international leading…
First step towards a joint vision for an interdisciplinary Makerspace has been made

2017.03.15

On 13 March, approx. 40 researchers and students from University of Copenhagen were gathered with…
Great interest in Blockchain at the first DIKU Business Club meeting of the year

2017.03.07

On 11 January 2017, DIKU Business Club held this years' first meeting focusing on Blockchain. The…
Three individual Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship grants for DIKU

2017.02.21

The SCIENCE faculty at UCPH has been awarded nearly half of all individual Marie Sklodowska Curie…
Battlecode: 1000 teams participated, Julian Zimmert came in fifth

2017.02.14

DIKU's new PhD student Julian Zimmert participated in this year's Battlecode competition arranged b…
Creativity and Innovation - in a UCPH MakerSpace

2017.01.31

Several American universities have one. Roskilde University have one. Roskilde Festival has one.…
DIKU researchers win Best Paper Award at PEPM 2017

2017.01.18

At the Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM) held on 16-17 January 2017,…