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New Study: User-based surveillance is not effective against fake-news

Digital Design DepartmentResearchsocial mediaMichele Coscia

The defence against fake news, to a large extent, relies on the social media users identifying and "flagging" suspicious stories, but are we, the users, really capable of doing that? No, a new study concludes.

New podcast on the public sector's use of big data

ResearchBusiness IT Departmentbig datadigitizationJames Maguire

The research project Data as Relation has launched a new podcast series, exploring the public sector's use of big data in governance.

ITU professor awarded prestigious international honour

Philippe BonnetComputer Science DepartmentResearchdata storage

Professor Philippe Bonnet has been honoured with The SIGMOD Contributions Award for his research in database systems.

The XP 2020 conference on Agile software development grows bigger online

Maria PaasivaaraEventssoftware

Researchers and practitioners from the software industry was set to gather for the International Conference on Agile Software Development at the IT University of Copenhagen, instead the conference has now moved online.

ITU participates in 3D-printing visors for healthcare workers

Two ITU employees are using ITU’s 3D-printers to make visors. Their effort is a part of a larger operation by a national community volunteering to produce protection for healthcare workers exposed to the coronavirus.

All of ITU's research articles are accessible to anyone

For the second time, the IT University of Copenhagen has achieved the national goal of 100 percent Open Access – meaning that all of its research articles are freely available online

Researcher at ITU: Ethics is the path to better technology

Irina ShklovskiResearchethicsinternet of thingswearables

With a toolbox for newly established tech-companies, researchers at the IT University of Copenhagen seek to help developers design better technologies connected to the Internet of Things (IoT).

Study shows correlation between the number of tweets on mental health issues and urgent crisis referrals

Leon DerczynskiComputer Science Departmenthealthsocial media

As a part of a UK research group, Assistant Professor Leon Derczynski, conducted a study that revealed a correlation between increases in the number of urgent mental health-related crisis referred to two mental healthcare providers in London on days and a high number of tweets mentioning depression and schizophrenia. The study has been published in one of the world's leading science journals, Nature's Scientific Reports.

The IT University of Copenhagen is to host a conference on Agile software development

Maria PaasivaaraEventssoftware

Researchers and practitioners from the software industry will gather at the International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP2020) at the IT University of Copenhagen. The call for industrial and academic contributions is open.

Newly appointed Professor is a boundary crosser

Yvonne DittrichResearchComputer Science Departmentsoftware

Communication and cooperation are points of equilibrium between success and failure in software development. By crossing boundaries between computer science and social science, Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen Yvonne Dittrich extends the field of computer engineering.