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Prestigious award for ITU researcher

Computer Science Department Research Marco Carbone awards programming languages

22 January, 2018

Marco Carbone, Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen, has won the Most Influential Paper Award at the world’s leading conference on the theory of programming languages.

New ITU professor: "We should be careful not to get dumber as technology gets smarter"

Business IT Department Research Brit Ross Winthereik digitization e-government big data

10 January, 2018

Brit Ross Winthereik has been appointed Professor of Science & Technology Studies at the IT University of Copenhagen from January 1, 2018. In her research, she investigates how we build and use IT infrastructures – and she warns against letting the technologies and platforms we have already built limit our imaginations.

Digital trends for 2018: Data ethics, IT security and self-driving cars

Business IT Department Computer Science Department Digital Design Department Rasmus Pagh Kasper Støy Irina Shklovski Søren Debois Lone Malmborg

22 December, 2017

What’s in store for technology in 2018? We have asked five ITU researchers to share their predictions.

A Tinder app for art

Digital Design Department Education ITU thesis digital art design

20 December, 2017

Digital technologies allow us to create more targeted and personalized museum experiences, according to Marie Bryndum and Maria Muhandes, who studied Digital Design and Communication at ITU. In their thesis project, they designed a Tinder-like app that gives museum visitors easier access to information about the artworks.

Research project will contribute to a more secure pension system

Computer Science Department Collaborations Research fintech grants Peter Sestoft

20 December, 2017

With computing power from graphics processors commonly used in gaming computers, a new research project aims to develop an advanced calculation platform for pension funds. Innovation Fund Denmark is investing DKK 9 million in the project collaboration between the IT University of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen and the software company Edlund A/S.

Teaching computers to understand human language

Computer Science Department Education artificial intelligence algorithms ITU thesis

13 December, 2017

Despite big advances in machine learning, making computers understand language is still a big challenge. Daniel Varab and his two classmates from Software Development trained a computer program to detect contradictions in texts – a technology that might eventually help us keep track of statements made by politicians and contradictions in the law.

New Computer Science programme at ITU

Computer Science Department Education Peter Sestoft

12 December, 2017

From autumn 2018, the MSc programme in Software Development will be split into two independent programmes: Computer Science and Software Development.

Digital design programme sharpens technical focus

Digital Design Department Education design Jonas Fritsch

11 December, 2017

The IT University's MSc programme in Digital Design and Communication changes its name to Digital Design and Interactive Technologies (DDIT). At the same time, the programme will give students a stronger technical foundation.

CAST IT: Secure Multi-Party Computation

Research cast IT IT security privacy Thore Husfeldt

6 December, 2017

Thore Husfeldt talks to Ivan Bjerre Damgård, one of the world’s leading researchers in cryptography, about internet security, authentication, privacy.

Thesis project turned into an award-winning puzzle game

Digital Design Department Education ITU thesis computer games

6 December, 2017

Four students from ITU’s Games programme dedicated their thesis to making the Virtual Reality (VR) experience more social. The resulting game ‘Tell Me What You See’ won the award for ‘Most Innovative Newcomer’ at the game festival Play17 and took the prize as best ITU student project in 2017.

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