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13/02 - Roger Midtstraum's 50 Years Birthday
Thursday 9th of February, the staff at the Department of Computer and Information Science gathered to celebrate Roger Midtstraum's 50 years birthday.
Photos from the event (Flickr)
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08/02 - Disputation Joćo Batista Rocha-Junior
30th of January, João Batista Rocha-Junior completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Kjetil Nørvåg supervised João's PhD work at the Data and Information Management research group. Professor Jon Atle Gulla, Adjunct Associate Professor Jon Olav Hauglid, Research Scientist Akrivi Vlachou og Post Doctoral Fellow Christos Doulkeridis have co-supervised the PhD work.
João's trial lecture was titled: Quering and Managing Social Data (pdf)
He defended his PhD thesis:
Efficient Processing of Preference Queries in Distributed and Spatial Databases (pdf)
Photos from the event (Flickr) by Heri Ramampiaro, Naimdjon Takhirov and Kai T. Dragland
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27/01 - Water! Social Change through New Media
Friday 27th of January, the Water! Social Change through New Media village presented their experts in teamwork projects related to global water challenges. The village has co-operated with Liv Arnesen, to aid the Access Water 2012 project.
The students in the village presented five water related projects:
- Trå for vann (a bicycle driven interactive computer game)
- Water ownership (a short video and web page)
- I India drikker alle saltvann (an e-book aimed a children)
- Vill etter vann (a web-based computer game for elementary school)
- Kompetansedråper for rent vann (an interactiv web page with videos and photos)
Professor Letizia Jaccheri was the leader of the village. The village focused on the use of new media as a tool for increasing the awareness of global water issues among school children.
Photos from the EiT presentation (Flickr)
Read more about it in Universitetsavisa (in Norwegian).
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09/01 - Virtual Nidaros
6th of January, one of our former master students, David Svånå, and his video of Virtual Nidaros were featured in Adressa. David Svånå's master thesis work was supervised by Assistant Professor Torbjørn Hallgren and Associate Professor Jo Skjermo.
Read more about Virtual Nidaros in the Bli med 700 år tilbake i tid article at Adressa.
More videos about Virtual Nidaros (YouTube).
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05/01 - A Pioneer Signing Off
Wednesday 4th of January, the staff at the department (IDI) gathered to celebrate Torbjørn Hallgren's 70 years birthday. Hallgren is signing off after 44 years at the university and SINTEF, but he still wish to contribute with graphic research at the department through his colleagues.
After graduating in 1966 from the Technical Physics programme of study at Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), Hallgren started working at Regnesenteret (RNTH). At RNTH he worked with technical/mathematical programming and taught the SIMULA programming language. Later he joined the Academic Administration at NTH, and pioneered the development of software for their academic needs.
In 1986 Hallgren joined our department, and started lecturing the major subjects in programming. His main responsibility has been computer graphics.
Hallgren was one of the initiators of the Distributed Visualization Laboratory (DVL). DVL began as a collaboration between departments and faculties at the university, since computer graphics and visualization required expensive equipment. Hallgren was crucial in establishing the cooperation - he has been a pioneer for computer graphics and visualization at the university.
Photos from the event (Flickr).
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22/12 - Philosophy of Interaction
Professor Dag Svanæs is one of the authors in the new online book, Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. Svanæs' chapter, the Philosophy of Interaction, has received great commentaries from both Donald A. Norman and Eva Hornecker, and it is currently used as the featured chapter of the book.
In the Philosophy of Interaction chapter you can watch four videos of Dag Svanæs, were he talk about the history of interaction design, and elaborates on concepts of interaction.
The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction is available for free from Interaction-Design.org. The Interaction-Design.org Foundation produce world-class educational materials by elite professors and elite designers, and give them away for free - to the benefit of both industry and academia all over the world.
Illustration: Interaction-design.org
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16/12 - Disputation Basit Ahmed Khan
15th of Desember, Basit Ahmed Khan completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Adjunct Professor Mihhail Matskin supervised Basit's PhD work at the Information Systems research group. Professor Rolf Bræk and Professor Monica Divitini have co-supervised the PhD work.
Basit completed his PhD work at the FABULA research project, which was funded by the Reseach Council of Norway's VERDIKT programme.
Basit's trial lecture was titled: Digital Ecologies: Theory and Applications.
He defended his PhD thesis:
Applying Multi-Agent Software System to Support Citywide Mobile Learning (pdf)
Photo: Private
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16/12 - NOK 10 Million to the Digital Oil Research Project
Professor Eric Monteiro has landed NOK 10 million in funding for his Digital oil (Doil) research project. Monteiro's research project was one of only six projects to receive funding. It was chosen in hard competition among the 101 project applications sent to the VERDIKT programme.
The Research Council of Norway used international experts to evaluate the project applications for their VERDIKT programme. VERDIKT is a research programme, which aims to aid in the development of the Internet of the Future. The Digital oil project builds upon two of the three themes of the VERDIKT programme; Social networks, and the Internet of Things.
The name, Digital oil, is based on the use of sensors to generate data from oil and gas wells. More than 50% of the oil produced on the Norwegian continental shelf today is drilled from unmanned subsea wells, which only provide data through sensors and measurement devices.
A core project aim is to develop an in-depth understanding of theoretical and actual risks related to sensor-based data management. By doing so, the project will contribute to the discussions on automation in the gas and oil industry.
The Digital oil project is a joint effort with Statoil and the Center for Integrated Operations in the Petrolium Industry (IO center) at NTNU. Eric Monteiro hopes that the project will be a catalyst in collaboration between the department, Statoil and the IO center.
Related links:
70 millioner til seks nye prosjekter (in Norwegian, Forskningsrådet)
Statoil signs environmental monitoring development agreement (Statoil)
Illustration: Statoil
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01/12 - Disputation Norvald Hegelstad Ryeng
28th of November, Norvald Hegelstad Ryeng completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Kjetil Nørvåg supervised Norvald's PhD work at the Data and Information Management research group. Professor Svein Erik Bratsberg and Senior Staff Engineer Olav Sandstad have co-supervised the PhD work.
Norvald's trial lecture was titled: Methods for Storing Data in Distributed Systems and Cloud.
He defended his PhD thesis:
Improving Query Processing Performance in Large Distributed Database Management Systems (pdf)
Photos from the disputation (Picasa).
Photos: Heri Ramampiaro
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29/11 - Disputation Ole Andreas Alsos
24th of November, Ole Andreas Alsos completed his trial lecture and thesis defense. He will eventually be awarded the PhD degree. Professor Dag Svanæs supervised Ole's PhD work at the Information Systems research group. Professor Øystein Nytrø and Associate Professor Arild Faxvaag have co-supervised the PhD work.
The committee for the disputation were: Professor Jan Stage from Aalborg University and Associate Professor Monique W. Jaspers from the University of Amsterdam. Professor Letizia Jaccheri from our department was the administrator for the event.
Ole's trial lecture was titled: Human computer interaction research issues in computer games.
Ole defended his PhD thesis:
Mobile Point-of-Care Systems in Hospitals:Designing for the Doctor-Patient Dialogue (pdf)
Photos from the trial lecture and thesis defense (Flickr).
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