Department of Computer Science at

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is with its 1000 students the largest Computer Science Department in

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. Earlier, the department abbreviation was 'DAIMI’, but after a restructure and internationalization, the abbreviation of the department became CS AU, short for Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University.

History

Originally, Department of Computer Science was a section within Department of Mathematics at Aarhus University. Here, the department was abbreviated DAIMI, short for Datalogisk Afdeling i Matematisk Institut, and by 1998 the name DAIMI had become so well known that it was kept, when the department became an independent department. The computer science course started at Aarhus University in 1971 as part of Department of Mathematics. During the period 1993-1998 the computer scientific subject area underwent rapid growth, and at the department the total number of staff members rose from 80 to 160, primarily because of an increase in external funding. An independent Department of Computer Science was founded in 1998. In the coming 5–6 years the department continuously moved more sections to new buildings as part of Aarhus University's plan to concentrate IT activities within the IT City Katrinebjerg. Close working relations to other organizations within the IT City have been established, i.e. with Department of Aesthetics and Communication and the Alexandra Institute. Well-known computer scientists from Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University include: *

Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup (; ; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer sci ...

(inventor of C++) * Jakob Nielsen (expert in usability) *

Lars Bak Lars Ytting Bak (born 16 January 1980) is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2019 for the Fakta, , , , and squads. Since retiring as a rider, Bak has acted as a directeur sportif for in ...

(inventor of the V8 JavaScript Engine)

Education

Educations at Bachelor level: * Bachelor in Computer Science * Bachelor in IT (Information Technology) Educations at Master level: * MSc in Computer Science * MSc in IT Product Development * MSc in Information Technology Additionally, the department offers a number of continuing and further education courses.

Research

* Algorithms and Data Structures * Bioinformatics * Complexity Theory * Computer Graphics and Scientific Computing * Cryptography and Security * Human Computer Interaction * Modelling and Validation of Distributed Systems * Object-Oriented Software Systems * Programming Languages and Formal Models

Professors

* Lars Arge *

Susanne Bødker Susanne Bødker (born 1956 in Randers, Denmark) is a Danish computer scientist known for her contributions to human–computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, and participatory design, including the introduction of activity theory ...

* Lars Birkedal * Ivan Bjerre Damgård * Kaj Grønbæk * Christian S. Jensen * Kurt Jensen (

CPN Tools CPN Tools is a tool for editing, simulating, and analyzing high-level Petri nets. It supports basic Petri nets plus timed Petri nets and colored Petri nets. It has a simulator and a state space analysis tool is included. CPN Tools is originally de ...

) * Morten Kyng * Ole Lehrmann Madsen * Brian H. Mayoh * Peter Bro Miltersen (

P/poly In computational complexity theory, P/poly is a complexity class that can be defined in both circuit complexity and non-uniform complexity. Since the two definitions are equivalent, this concept bridges the two areas. In the perspective of circui ...

) * Mogens Nielsen (

Petri net A Petri net, also known as a place/transition net (PT net), is one of several mathematical modeling languages for the description of distributed systems. It is a class of discrete event dynamic system. A Petri net is a directed bipartite graph t ...

) * Michael I. Schwartzbach

The IT City Katrinebjerg

The department is located in the Aarhus region named Katrinebjerg. The area also hosts many IT companies as well as other institutes of education and is known as the IT City Katrinebjerg.

External links

Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University

Magazine about the Dept. of Computer Science, Aarhus University (2009)

Research areas at CS
Founded: 1971 (section) / 1998 (department)
Head of Department: Lars Birkedal
City: Aarhus
Country: Denmark
Number of students: Approximately 1000
Website:''
cs.au.dk
Aarhus University