Department of Computer Science

Research News

New Professor investigates large-scale data management systems in collaboration with Maersk

For more than 15 years, Yongluan Zhou has investigated different kinds of data and database systems…

SIGCHI Academy Award

Professor Kasper Hornbæk receives international award and membership of prestigious academy

Professor at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU) Kasper Hornbæk has bee…

computer science

Size does matter: People with longer thumbs mistype on their phones more often

People with long thumbs have a tougher time hitting the right phone keys. According to a recent…

Machine learning

Intelligent alarm to help doctors predict heart attacks

University of Copenhagen researchers are in the process of testing a new alarm that helps Danish…

Artificial Intelligence

Copenhagen is at the forefront of Machine Learning

Copenhagen will contribute to catalyzing European AI research and business as one of the newly…

New professor: Computer science is shaping our reality and norms

As of 1 March 2020, Irina Shklovski will join Department of Computer Science (DIKU) and Department…

More synergy between psychology and computer science

In the beginning of 2020, professor Søren Kyllingsbæk, will become part of the Department of…

New project will improve the integration of programming in primary school

With a grant of approx. DKK 5.5 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the new interdisciplinary…

New technology to prevent future IT flops in the public sector

Researchers from University of Copenhagen have developed a new technology to help public agencies…

ELLIS PhD Award 2018

Researcher receives prestigious award for combining NLP and eye tracking

In her PhD thesis from 2018, Maria Barrett, postdoc at Department of Computer Science, University o…