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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…

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…

Impact of contaminated biological material in animals' health and in research data

Do you value your research data so much to assume that it is not contaminated by pathogenic agents? Did you know that lab animals’ health and welfare is of vital importance in order to produce valid and reproducible…

New season of the Privacy Studies Podcast

The first episodes of the newest and fifth season of the centre’s very own Privacy Studies Podcast have been published. Listen to the podcast here on our website. The new season follows the discussions of the symposium…

Homecoming: Experienced Professor in Computer Systems is back at DIKU

Franco-Danish Professor Philippe Bonnet is back at DIKU after 14 years at the IT University of Copenhagen. Before that, Philippe was at DIKU from 2001 to 2009. He returned to DIKU in October 2023 and became a part of th…

Professor Pernille Bjørn Recognized as Distinguished Member of ACM

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Professor Pernille Bjørn a Distinguished Member for her exceptional contributions to Global Software Development and Equity in Computing.

Ethnote's rejsegilde

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

Nutan Limaye receives prestigious ACM award

Nutan Limaye receives the ACM India Outstanding Contributions in Computing by a Woman Award.

BARC welcomes a new Associate Professor

BARC welcomes Andreas Björklund to the team.

CMS Researcher Tobias Liebetrau publishes new article in Journal of Cyber Policy

Researcher at CMS, Tobias Liebetrau, has co-authored a newly published article in the Journal of Cyber Policy entitled: “Cybersecurity and the politics of knowledge production: towards a reflexive practice”.

Computer scientists makes noisy data: Can improve treatments in health care

University of Copenhagen researchers have developed software able to disguise sensitive data such as those used for Machine Learning in health care applications. The method protects privacy while making datasets…

Artificial Intelligence and Privacy: Causes for Concern. Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz.

Video from the PRIVACY Challenge Seminar with Mateusz Jurewicz now available.

New study pinpoints the weaknesses in AI

ChatGPT and other solutions built on Machine Learning are surging. But even the most successful algorithms have limitations. As the first in the world researchers from University of Copenhagen has proven mathematically…

Breakthrough: Weight loss drug from highly toxic plant can now be produced in yeast

A traditional Chinese medicinal plant has huge potential as a weight loss drug. However, due to the plant’s notorious toxicity, no one has yet succeeded in exploiting it effectively. Researchers from the University of…

Breakthrough: Weight loss drug from highly toxic plant can now be produced in yeast

A traditional Chinese medicinal plant has huge potential as a weight loss drug. However, due to the plant’s notorious toxicity, no one has yet succeeded in exploiting it effectively. Researchers from the University of…

Morten Axel Pedersen gave talk at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

In the beginning of December, Morten Axel Pedersen gave a talk on the potentials and pitfalls of working quantitatively in anthropology at the research seminar in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position

A tenure-track assistant professor position available at the department of Plant and Environmental Sciences.

Ethnote test-event held at SODAS

Last week a test-event exploring new users' first meeting with digital fieldnote appe app Ethnote was held at SODAS

New Faces 2023

BARC and the AC-section welcomed lots of PhD's and Postdocs in 2023!

Researchers invent "methane cleaner": Could become a permanent fixture in cattle and pig barns

In a spectacular new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have used light and chlorine to eradicate low-concentration methane from air. The result gets us closer to being able to remove greenhouse gases…

Anthropologist to explore “out of the way” places’ dreams of becoming tech landscapes

What does it mean for “out of the way” places to build technological futures, and how can these futures reproduce or reconfigure social and economic inequalities? This is what Samantha Dawn Breslin will explore thanks t…

Student creates green investment tool

A student at University of Copenhagen has developed a method for optimizing profit relative to risk while also including sustainability and social responsibility concerns. The tool is relevant to both professional and…

Communication transforms surveillance into quality control

Students at University of Copenhagen analysed the adoption of an AI-backed tracking system recently installed by university hospital Rigshospitalet.