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15/05 - Disputation Stig Ole Johnsen
10th of May, Stig Ole Johnsen completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Torbjørn Skramstad supervised Stig's PhD work at the Information Systems research group. Professor Eric Monteiro, Professor Britt-Marie Drottz Sjøberg and Professor Jørn Vatn have co-supervised the PhD work.
Stig's trial lecture was titled: Communicating Risk on individual-, system- and societal level to an entire population.
He defended his PhD thesis:
An Investigation of Resilience in Complex Socio-Technical Systems to Improve Safety and Continuity in Integrated Operations (pdf)
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14/05 - GEMINI Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI)
11th of May marked the opening of the new GEMINI center for Applied Artificial Intelligence. Staff and partners from both the SINTEF and the department gathered to celebrate the opening. This center is one of the four new SINTEF GEMINI centers for the 2012 - 2015 period.
The aim of GEMINI centers is for parallel research communities to build larger research communities of higher quality. Research topics within the center will be:
- Knowledge Based Systems (KBS)
- Language Technology
- Self Organizing Systems
The center will apply artificial intelligence within the fields of:
- Intelligent Traffic Systems
- Medical Decision Support Systems
- Real Time Analysis of Streamed Data
- Data Analysis and Decision Support for Oil Drilling
People from left to right: Agnar Aamodt (NTNU), Anders Kofod-Petersen (SINTEF / NTNU), Helge Langseth (NTNU) and Marius Mikalsen (SINTEF ICT)
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11/05 - Opening Ceremony of the Computer Museum
Thursday 10th of May, the Computer Museum at our department officially opened. A 140+ persons participated in the opening ceremony, and many a computer story were shared among the visitors.
The computer museum is unique in Norway, and has on display many of the first computers used at NTH and in Norway. GIER is one of the many historically important computers displayed. You also can play computer games on Commodore 64 and other old computers. Space Invaders anyone? :-)
Computer Historian Ola Nordal, and Chief Engineer Anders Christensen have devoted a lot of time and energy in collecting, organizing and documenting the computer history. The students Espen Olsen and Terje Hoås has helped in finalizing the museum.
Next time you visit NTNU - take the time to visit the Computer Museum!
Photos from the opening (Flickr).
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09/05 - New Book on Peer-to-Peer Query Processing over Multidimensional Data
Springer has published a new book on Peer-to-Peer Query Processing over Multidimensional Data, coauthored by Professor Kjetil Nørvåg and Researcher Scientists Akrivi Vlachou and Christos Doulkeridis from the Data and Information Management Group at NTNU.
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26/04 - Creating an Interactive Library Experience
Wednesday 25th of April, the Mubil village presented their experts in teamwork (EiT) projects. The projects developed software which will be used to create an interactive library experience at the Gunnerus Library at NTNU.
The four groups in the village presented their projects:
- Gamle Tangenter - an interactive computer game where you learn to play the keyboard.
- Hans Lilienskiolds reisejournal - software for tweeting and recreating events from the past on Twitter and blog. The tweets can link to blog entries which eleborate the story.
- Mubil gjestebok - a digital guestbook for the library.
- Dirigent Helt - an interactive computer game where you are the conductor of an orchestra.
Lecturer Roberta Proto has been the leader of Professor Letizia Jaccheri's EiT village. The Mubil village focused on development of software for a digital laboratory at Gunnerus. The library wishes to present library content in an engaging and interactive way to school childeren.
The Gamle Tangenter and Dirigent Helt computer games used ancient music scores from the Gunnerus Library for all of the music in the games. The projects' design also tried to capture "that Gunnerus feeling", according to one of the students.
Photos from the EiT presentation (Flickr)
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25/04 - Disputation Mikhail Fominykh
24th of April, Mikhail Fominykh completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Assoicate Professor Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland supervised Mikhail's PhD work at the Software Engineering research group. Professor Alf Inge Wang, Assistant Professor Torbjørn Hallgren and Associate Professor Mikhail Morozov have co-supervised the PhD work.
Mikhail's trial lecture was titled: Co-creation design of content for learning communities: Exploring the research and technological challenges. This may include the challenges of using virtual worlds or other social media in the co-creation design process (pdf)
He defended his PhD thesis:
Collaborative Work on 3D Educational Content (pdf)
Slides (pdf)
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25/04 - Continued Growth in Applicants Numbers
The Department of Computer and Information Science continues the steady growth (+16.8 %) in the total number of applicants to the Informatics bachelor programme and Computer Science master programme. This is the 7th year of growth since 2005.
Informatics had a 21.8 % increase in the total numbers that applied (946), and a 40.7% increase in the number of applicants who selected Informatics as the primary choice. Computer Science had a 13.6% increase in the total number of applicants (1330), and a 9,8 % increase in the number of applicants selecting it as the primary choice.
Related links:
Søknadstall (in Norwegian, Samordnaopptak.no)
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24/04 - IDI Open 2012
On Saturday 21st of April, the IDI Open 2012 programming contest took place at NTNU with a 127 teams competing for fame and glory. 87 teams and 230+ participants competed on site, while 40 teams competed online.
The 40 teams competed online, from as far away as Hong Kong, California in USA, Toulouse in France, Minsk in White Russia, and Århus in Denmark. In Norway, the University of Bergen (UiB) and the University of Oslo (UiO) had teams online. IDI Open also had a team of international students onsite this year.
The winners of IDI Open 2012 was the professional Followers of Stroustrup team from Århus, which solved 8 of the ten problems. They were closely followed by the One Man Army (Rune Fevang) team from Santa Clara in California and Toadstool from UiO which both solved 7 problems. The top three teams were all professional teams.
The best onsite team was The Dining Philosophers, sponsored by Gunnar Inge (Edvard Karlsen, Karl Johan Vekamoen Heimark, Magne Vikjord), which solved 5 problems and won 9th place. 2b||!2b (Jean Niklas L'orange, Christer Bru, Vegard Edvardsen) was second best onsite, and Binary Sudoku Solvers (Simen Natvig, Bjørn Rustad) was third best onsite.
Best girl team was Team Me (Cecilie Haugstvedt), and the best first year student team was Sleep (-1) (Aleksander Wasaznik). Details can be found at the IDI Open high score list.
IDI congratulate the winners, and hope all the contestants had fun programming.
Photos from the IDI Open 2012 event (Flickr).
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19/04 - 2nd Place in Technoport Mission Rio
The Wild for Water group, in Professor Letizia Jaccheri's Water! Social Change through New Media Experts in Teamwork (EiT) village, won 2nd place in the Technoport Mission Rio contest. The group won a trip to Copenhagen where they are invited to the "Grøn dyst" student conference.
The focus of the Technoport Mission Rio has been to solve climatic challenges with sustainable use of technology. Technoport Mission Rio started in early January with 800 students in 160 groups. 19 of those groups had stands at Technoport. Both the Wild for Water group and the Trå for vann group in Letizia Jaccheri's EiT village were among the top four nominated groups.
The Wild for Water group consisted of: Anette Skoglund, Kristian Rutlin, Louise Gabrielsen Sletta, Ole Mikkel Sjølie, Sabine Relling Nielsen and Siri Einarsdatter Minothi.
The department congratulates all the EiT students and Jaccheri!
Photos from the EiT village's presentation earlier this year (Flickr)
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17/04 - Editor in Special Issue on Agile Development
Adjunct Associate Professor Torgeir Dingsøyr from our department is one of the editors of the new special issue on Agile Development in the Journal of Systems and Software.
Agile software development has been one of the major trends in software development since the formulation of the agile manifesto in 2001. Practices like Scrum, Extreme programming and Lean software development has become the standard way of developing software in many countries. This phenomenon has also gained attention of research.
The special issue consist of an introductory article which shows the development of the research field, in addition to five studies focusing on areas such as coordination of agile development teams, decision making in agile development and a review of experience reports on lean and agile development.
The special issue on agile software development is available online at sciencedirect.com.
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