UCPH Department of Computer Science

Last updated
UCPH Department of Computer Science
Datalogisk Institut - main entrance.jpg
Entrance of the main building, located at the University Park in Copenhagen, on the university's North Campus
Type Public
Established1970;53 years ago (1970) [1]
Parent institution
 University of Copenhagen,
Faculty of Science
Head of DepartmentProfessor Jakob Grue Simonsen [2]
Location
Copenhagen
,
Denmark

55°42′08″N12°33′41″E / 55.7022984°N 12.5613498°E / 55.7022984; 12.5613498
Website di.ku.dk
DIKU banner.png

The UCPH Department of Computer Science (Danish : Datalogisk Institut, DIKU) is a department in the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). It is the longest established department of Computer Science in Denmark and was founded in 1970 by Turing Award winner Peter Naur. As of 2021, it employs 82 academic staff, 126 research staff and 38 support staff. It is consistently ranked the top Computer Science department in the Nordic countries, and in 2017 was placed 9th worldwide by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. [3]

Contents

History

DIKU has its roots at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, where in 1963, the first computer was bought. [4] In 1969, Peter Naur became the first professor in Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, and in 1970, DIKU was officially established its own department. [5]

Research

As of 2021, the department is home to 82 academic staff, 126 research staff and 38 support staff. Research is organised into seven research sections: [6]

Teaching

The department offers programmes at BSc as well as MSc level, both in core computer science and in interdisciplinary subjects. Bachelor's programmes are 3-year programmes and mostly taught in Danish, whereas Master's programmes are 2-year programmes and taught in English. In 2020, DIKU enrolled 610 new Bachelor's students and 136 new Master's students. [12] As of 2021, DIKU offers the following study programmes: [13]

In addition, the department awards the research degree Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). PhD students are enrolled in the Faculty of Science's Doctoral School for a typical study period of between three and four years. [14]

Location

DIKU DIKU.jpg
DIKU
The entrance Datalogisk Institut - main entrance.jpg
The entrance

DIKU is based at University Park in Copenhagen, part of the university's North Campus. Its building complex comprises the former Department of Anatomy. The building was completed in 1942 to design by Kaj Gottlob. [15]

The Human-Centered Computing Section is located in Sigurdsgade, close to the North Campus.

Student life

An important social event is the DIKU revue which is held each year in June. The DIKU revue is always in competition with the physics revue and never misses an opportunity to computer-animate the complete and utter destruction of the physics institute at the H. C. Ørsted Institute.

As something unique among the institutes of Copenhagen University, the DIKU cantine is entirely student driven and open 24 hours. It is the natural hub for all social events on DIKU.

The two largest social events are the DIKU revue and the Julefrokost (Christmas lunch) of the canteen.

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

Miscellaneous

The domain diku.dk was registered on October 29, 1987, and was one of the first .dk domain names to be registered. [16]

The popular DikuMUD codebase was developed at DIKU in March 1990, and derives its name from the institute. [17]

In the 1994 Danish thriller Nattevagten (Nightwatch) directed by Ole Bornedal, the main entrance and stairwell of the institute was used as a main location.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Naur</span> Danish computer science pioneer

Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and Turing award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also contributed to creating the language ALGOL 60.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aalborg University</span> Public university in Denmark

Aalborg University (AAU) is an international public university with campuses in Aalborg, Esbjerg, and Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1974, the university awards bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and PhD degrees in a wide variety of subjects within humanities, social sciences, information technology, design, engineering, exact sciences, and medicine. The university is also open to international students from the European Union (EU) or from countries from the Nordic Council or outside. The international students stemming from outside the European Union or the Nordic Council are subject to tuition fees.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aarhus University</span> Research university in Aarhus, Denmark

Aarhus University is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Group, the Guild, and Utrecht Network of European universities and is a member of the European University Association.

DikuMUD is a multiplayer text-based role-playing game, which is a type of multi-user domain (MUD). It was written in 1990 and 1991 by Sebastian Hammer, Tom Madsen, Katja Nyboe, Michael Seifert, and Hans Henrik Stærfeldt at DIKU —the department of computer science at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester</span>

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester is the longest established department of Computer Science in the United Kingdom and one of the largest. It is located in the Kilburn Building on the Oxford Road and currently has over 800 students taking a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and 60 full-time academic staff.

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is a research institute of the University of Amsterdam, in which researchers from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities collaborate. The ILLC's central research area is the study of fundamental principles of encoding, transmission and comprehension of information. Emphasis is on natural and formal languages, but other information carriers, such as images and music, are studied as well.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Khulna University</span> Public university in Bangladesh

Khulna University is a public university in Gollamari, Khulna, Bangladesh. It is near the river Moyur, beside the Sher e Bangla Road. The academic programs of Khulna University started on 31 August 1991 with 80 students in four disciplines. As of 2023, the university has 29 disciplines under 8 schools

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford</span> Department of the University of Oxford

The Department of Computer Science is the computer science department of the University of Oxford, England, which is part of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. It was founded in 1957 as the Computing Laboratory. By 2014 the staff count was 52 members of academic staff and over 80 research staff. The 2019, 2020 and 2021 Times World University Subject Rankings places Oxford University 1st in the world for Computer Science. Oxford University is also the top university for computer science in the UK and Europe according to Business Insider. The 2020 QS University Subject Rankings places The University of Oxford 5th in the world for Computer Science.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of the Faroe Islands</span> State-run university located in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

The University of the Faroe Islands is a state-run university located in Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands. It consists of five faculties: Faculty of Faroese Language and Literature, Faculty of Social Sciences and History, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science and Technology and Faculty of Health Sciences. The University offers bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. programs. The student body is relatively small. The University organises an annual dissertation competition open to all students. The educational language of the university is Faroese, making it the only university in the world to conduct classes officially in the Faroese language. Some classes are taught in other languages. The University works closely with the University of Copenhagen and the University of Iceland for research projects and is a member of UArctic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beykent University</span> University in Istanbul, Turkey

Beykent University is a foundation university in Istanbul, Turkey, teaching in English, Russian combined and Turkish with 29,401 students.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bachelor of Science</span> Type of bachelors degree

A Bachelor of Science is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CITY College, University of York Europe Campus</span>

CITY College, University of York Europe Campus is a unique, international institution based in Thessaloniki, Greece but with satellite activities in 8 countries.

Faculty of Science is one of the eight faculties in University of Peradeniya. It was established as the second Faculty of Science in Sri Lanka in 1961.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeremy Gibbons</span> British computer scientist

Jeremy Gibbons is a computer scientist and professor of computing at the University of Oxford. He serves as Deputy Director of the Software Engineering Programme in the Department of Computer Science, Governing Body Fellow at Kellogg College and Pro-Proctor of the University of Oxford.

The University of Auckland Faculty of Science is one of eight faculties and schools that make up the University of Auckland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of the Witwatersrand School of Architecture & Planning</span> Architecture school at the University of the Witwatersrand

The School of Architecture and Planning is one of seven schools in the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">UCPH School of Pharmaceutical Sciences</span>

The UCPH School of Pharmaceutical Sciences is part of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at University of Copenhagen (UCPH). It is located at the university's North Campus on the border between Nørrebro and Østerbro. The school is organized in two departments.

The UCPH Department of Biology is a department under the Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen (UCPH). It is organized in 10 sections and is also involved in a number of research centres. The department offer three BSc and four MSc degree programmes. With 400 employees and 1,800 students, it is the largest department at the faculty. It also operates the Øresund Aquarium in Helsingør.

Creative computing covers the interdisciplinary area at the cross-over of the creative arts and computing. Issues of creativity include knowledge discovery, for example.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Isabelle Augenstein</span> German Scientist in Denmark

Isabelle Augenstein is a computer scientist working in the field of natural language processing. She is currently a full professor and head of the NLP section at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen. She is also a co-lead at the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Denmark's largest research centre initiated by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science. She is well known for being appointed the youngest female full professor in Denmark and for her work on detecting gender bias, fact-checking, and stance detection using computational methods.

References

  1. ↑ "About the Department" (in Danish). University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  2. ↑ Kristensen, Tina Virenfeldt (2021-03-08). "New head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen". University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  3. ↑ "Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017 - Computer Science & Engineering". Shanghai Ranking. 2018-01-01. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "Datalogisk Instituts historie - den lange version" (in Danish). University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  5. ↑ Søndergaard, Ann Steendahl (2010-06-02). "Fra DIKUs historiebog - 1970erne" (in Danish). DIKU. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Department of Computer Science, DIKU". Copenhagen University . Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  7. ↑ Steenstrup Pedersen, Kim. "Kim Steenstrup Pedersen" . Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  8. ↑ Lioma, Christina. "Christina Lioma" . Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  9. ↑ Augenstein, Isabelle. "Isabelle Augenstein" . Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  10. ↑ "Programming Languages and Theory of Computation (PLTC)".
  11. ↑ Hildebrandt, Thomas Troels. "Thomas Troels Hildebrandt" . Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  12. ↑ "Ansøgnings- og optagelsestal" (in Danish). University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  13. ↑ "Courses and programmes". University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  14. ↑ "PhD School of Science". University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  15. ↑ "Anatomisk Institutlanguage=Danish". Bygningskulturens Hus. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  16. ↑ "Verdens første domænenavn fylder 30 i dag". Netsite. 15 March 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  17. ↑ Shah, Rawn; Romine, James (1995). Playing MUDs on the Internet. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 22. ISBN   0-471-11633-5. DikuMud first appeared in mid-March of 1990 when a group of programmers at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark got together and began work on a multiplayer game that is similar to but improved on AberMuds. These coders were Hans Henrik Stærfeldt, Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen, Michael Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.