Overview

The Department of Computer Science (Daimi) is involved in research within a wide range of areas. These pages list the principal areas.

History

At the University of Aarhus research and teaching in computer science started at the end of the sixties. These activities continued under the Department of Mathematical Sciences until 1998 where the Department of Computer Science was founded.

Research profile – multidisciplinary research

The mathematical approach is maintained and theoretical computer science has always been an important research area. At the same time a similar area within experimental computer science, system– and software development, has been developed. Today the research profile of the department is more or less equally divided among the two large groups: Theoretical computer science (Brics) and experimental computer science (CfPC). The Department of Computer Science has always had a deliberate tradition of a decentralized research management without a fixed grouping, which has resulted in a dynamic development of research activities as well as research groupings. As we emphasise multi-disciplinary attitudes to research, no firm dividing lines are drawn between the various strands of subjects and there is a lively interaction between all areas. Problem-oriented and inter-disciplinary approaches characterize the research. The research at DAIMI is internationally recognized for its contributes within both theory and practice of computing.

Financing

The faculty members participate actively in both national and international research programmes and they are increasingly financed by external funds. Often several partners from other departments are involved as well as other Danish universities and other institutes of higher education. Department of Computer Science has had numerous successful research projects in cooperation with public as well as private enterprises.

Future

At present the department employ both graduate faculty members and numerous temporary researchers. The number of graduate faculty members is expected to raise considerably in the years to come. The establishment of IT City Katrinebjerg will be the next challenge to face. We are looking forward to this challenge as to research, where our job will be to contribute to the growing integration of computer science with other research areas and the surrounding society as well as to teaching where our job will continue to be to meet the need of the society for high educated people within the IT sector.

Target group

This presentation of our research areas is primarily directed towards academics and enterprises within the area as well towards our employees and students.