News about Digitization

Deon Digital's SFI system can revolutionise securities trading

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen has provided the research basis for a test programme of Deon Digital's Smart Financial Instruments system (SFI system), which shows promising results.

DISTRACT article: "How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy"

DISTRACT researchers Eva Iris Otto, Anders Blok, and Jonathan Holm Salka published the paper "How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy" in Journal of Cultural Economy in April…

DISTRACT PhDs present at SODAS PhD Days

In February, SODAS PhDs Malene Hornstrup Jespersen and Sofie Læbo Astrupsgaard presented some of their current work in the DISTRACT project at the SODAS PhD Days

Unumed lends doctors a helping hand

With the help of the Department of Computer Science, Unumed has developed a prototype that uses artificial intelligence to help doctors read X-ray images.

New article: "New methodologies for the digital age? How methods (re-)organize research using social media data"

DISTRACT researchers Sune Lehmann, Anders Blok, and postdoc at Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society Yangliu Fan (PhD from SODAS) published in December 2023 the paper "New methodologies for the digital age? How…

DCR Solutions makes legal texts easy to understand with artificial intelligence

With the help of the Department of Computer Science, DCR Solutions has developed a solution that makes it possible to decode complex legal texts using advanced language algorithms.

Ethnote's rejsegilde

Yesterday, the progress of the digital fieldnote app Ethnote was celebrated at a traditional 'rejsegilde'

New article: "Exposure to urban and rural contexts shapes smartphone usage behavior"

DISTRACT Researchers Anna Sapienza, Sune Lehmann, and DTU researchers Laura Alessandretti and Marita Lítlá has recently published an article in PNAS Nexus

25 Students Join Forces to Reshape Tech Policy

The CPH Tech Policy Youth Committee has now been formed – with 25 students ready to engage in the field of tech policy.

Panel discussion on digital dependencies at Tech Policy Days

Last Friday DISTRACT PhD Malene Hornstrup Jespersen took part in a panel discussion on digital dependencies held as part of the Tech Policy Days and the launch of the Tech Policy Youth Committee

Do you find work using an app or an online platform?

The GIG-OSH research project is conducting a large survey and is searching for respondents among platform workers

Modern blockchain technology to become our weapon in the green transition

Greenwashing scams, murky networks and poor oversight cloud the experiences of climate-conscious consumers and investors. Research from the University of Copenhagen demonstrates that we can create transparency in supply…

Social dialogue in times of crisis

A special edition of the Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, edited by Bertil Rolandsson and Anna Ilsøe, examines how Nordic models respond to crises and times of uncertainty

Digital disruption diversified—FinTechs and the emergence of a coopetitive market ecosystem

In a new article in Socio-Economic Review Bengt Larsson, Bertil Rolandsson, Anna Ilsøe, Trine Pernille Larsen, Alex Lehr and Jaan Masso analyse the impact of FinTech on the traditional banking sector.

We are wasting up to 20 percent of our time on computer problems

Even though our computers are now better than 15 years ago, they still malfunction between 11 and 20 per cent of the time, a new study from the University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University concludes. The researchers…

Record-breaking attendance at the IT Career Day 2023

The IT Career Day 2023 saw a record number of students. Many new relationships were created.

It takes two to code: a comparative analysis of collective bargaining and artificial intelligencegence

In a new article Trine P. Larsen and Anna Ilsøe et al. focus on the role of collective bargaining and employee involvement in relation to algorithm management

SODAS professor discusses AI on the danish radio program Kulturen

SODAS professor Morten Axel Pedersen discusses generative AI systems in the danish radio program Kulturen

Invitation to the inauguration of professor Morten Arendt Rasmussen

Invitation to the inauguration of professor Morten Arendt Rasmussen March 3 at 1 pm in Copenhagen Plant Science Center Auditorium A2.11.01 - CPSC1, entrance via Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C

Newly appointed professor: Data science can save food research decades

We can potentially save decades of food research by using data science to investigate where we have the greatest chance of finding the most significant results. It is a latent game changer when we want to convince…

SODAS researchers receive Carlsberg grant to develop the Ethnoplatform

SODAS PhD August Lohse and professor Morten Axel Pedersen have received a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation to develop the Ethnoplatform

Researcher: The future of learning technology is offline 

If learners are in more control of the technology they use for learning and the data they generate, it can create better learning as well as deeper understanding of the technology, says Postdoc Mark Johnson.

Playing alone? Interest representation in the videogame industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands

In a new article in Economic and Industrial Democracy Mikkel Mailand and Trine P. Larsen et al. examines the examines the interest representation in the gaming industry in Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands.

"I'll pay later!" – People promise the stars and moon to charities, but donations remain unsent

More than half of charitable giving via payment apps is "forgotten" as soon as a fundraiser leaves according to a new University of Copenhagen study. On the other hand, digital solutions make it easier to donate more…