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CAST IT: Game Studies From The Hobbit To Minecraft

Digital Design Department Research computer games Espen Aarseth Thore Husfeldt cast IT

13 October, 2017

Learn more about computer games and the field of Game Studies in this podcast featuring Espen Aarseth, professor at ITU.

Making case management effective, flexible and transparent

Thomas Hildebrandt Computer Science Department Research e-government Collaborations grants

5 October, 2017

Digital case management systems should become more intelligent and flexible so that both case workers and clients are provided better and more transparent service, despite the increasingly complex legislation. Innovation Fund Denmark invests DKK 16 million in the research project Ecoknow, which links technology and practice of adaptive case management.

Researchers are training a deep learning algorithm to beat humans at StarCraft

Computer Science Department Research algorithms computer games artificial intelligence

4 October, 2017

Computers have already crushed humans at chess, Go and poker. Now, researchers at the IT University of Copenhagen are training an algorithm to beat the best human players in the sci-fi computer game StarCraft. If the project succeeds, it will be another quantum leap forward for artificial intelligence (AI).

Jørgen Staunstrup appointed Honorary Professor at ITU

Computer Science Department About ITU Jørgen Staunstrup

2 October, 2017

ITU has appointed Jørgen Staunstrup, former Pro-Rector and current Head of ITU Professional Courses, as Honorary Professor in the Computer Science Department.

We judge the success of digital transformation projects in wrong ways

Arisa Shollo Professional education Business IT Department business innovation management

20 September, 2017

IT projects are almost impossible to compare to each other and often judgements of good or right projects are based on unconscious use of fundamental devices. Associate professor at the IT University, Arisa Shollo, advices organizations to become more aware of the kind of the judgement devices they use in project selection processes as they lead to different kind of projects being selected . Projects within digital transformation would rarely be selected based on business cases and cost benefit models.

CAST IT: Cybersecurity And Star Wars

Research cast IT IT security software Thore Husfeldt

20 September, 2017

Cybersecurity and the early history of software engineering are among the topics discussed in this episode of CAST IT, featuring Rebecca Slayton.

Big data from space to be used in ITU classrooms

Computer Science Department Education Collaborations big data Philippe Bonnet

20 September, 2017

A new collaboration between the IT University of Copenhagen and the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education gives students and researchers the chance to work with data collected by the EU’s earth observation program, Copernicus.

CAST IT The truth in digital society

Research cast IT media algorithms Thore Husfeldt

19 September, 2017

Vincent Hendricks talks about information, knowledge and truth in the internet age.

USA: Virginia ditches DRE voting machines after ITU researcher’s hack

Carsten Schürmann Computer Science Department Research democracy IT security e-government

12 September, 2017

In July 2017 associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Carsten Schürmann made the headlines in the international media with a hack that demonstrated the vulnerabilities of the DRE voting machines used in the U.S. elections. Now these voting machines are decertified in the state of Virginia.

New survey: The notion of echo chambers on Facebook is exaggerated

Digital Design Department Research Luca Rossi democracy social media

5 September, 2017

A new survey by the research group DECIDIS at the IT University of Copenhagen challenges the notion that social media make users with different political positions invisible to each other. Nearly a third of Danes sometimes change their opinion as a result of a political discussion on Facebook.

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