24/10 - JoinGame

Associate Professor Alf Inge Wang has initiated JoinGame; a Norwegian resource network for computer game development.

Read  the article about JoinGame in Dagens it (in Norwegian)

19/10 - Stoltenbergs favoritt på Technoport?

Fredrik Orderud har sammen med ultralydforskere ved institutt for sirkulasjon og bildediagnostikk presentert en nyutviklet sanntids-algoritme for automatisk segmentering og volummåling av venstre hjertekammer i 3d ultralyd på Technoport.

Demonstrasjon på stand, med hjertemålinger av frivillige forbipasserende ble fort en populær attraksjon. Statsminister Stoltenberg lot seg imponere over teknologien, noe han gav klart uttrykk for i intervjuet med TV-Adressa. Papirutgaven av Adressa har også en artikkel om hjerteundersøkelser fra Technoport.

TV-Adressa: Stoltenberg lot seg imponere (streaming video)

Adressa: Slik har hjertet ditt det i dag (pdf)

18/10 - Spillteknologi på Technoport

Les hva Aftenposten.no skriver i artiklene:  Spiller på kinolerretet og "Dr. cand.spill" om førsteamanuensis Alf Inge Wang, spillteknologien fra NTNU presentert på Technoport.

Foto: Geir Otto Johansen

15/10 - PhD Defence Peter Boros

11th of October Peter Boros completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree.

He defended his PhD thesis:
Object Recognition: Modelling and the Interface to a control Strategy for Matching (pdf)

06/10 - Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest 2007

The Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest 2007 was arranged on the 6th of October. Java the ^ from NTNU was the best student team and managed to solve all 9 problems, which isn't even intended to be doable in the 5 hour contest.

The non-student team Three-Headed Monkey from KTH was the only other team to solve 9 problems and became the best team in the open class division, having completed the problem set faster than Java the ^.

A total of 4 teams from NTNU are advancing to the regional Northwestern European Programming Contest in Utrecht in November. The national organizing committee sponsors the top two teams and the best young team, which were all from NTNU, and IDI sponsors the fourth best team.

01/10 - PhD Defence Sigve Hovda

1st of October Sigve Hovda completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree.

He defended his PhD thesis:
New Doppler-Based Imaging Methods in Echocardiography with Applications in Blood/Tissue Segmentation

01/10 - Ny studieveileder

Terje Rydland er ny studieveileder ved instituttet.

Torsdager fra 12:15 til 14:00 er satt opp som trefftid for studieveiledning.

05/09 - Hands-On Programming of Cell BE Processor

The Cell BE (Broadband Engine) processor, developed by Sony, Toshiba and IBM, is used in the PlayStation 3 game console, as well as in compute servers for the oil industry and other compute intensive applications. The nine processor cores may produce a substantial performance speedup compared to traditional processors, but mastery of its compute power requires heterogeneous parallell programming skills.

44 participants from the Nordic countries participated in Duc Vianney's two days programming course at NTNU. Duc Vianney is the education lead of the Cell Ecosystem and Solutions Enablement team at IBM. Currently he is on a Europe tour to educate programmers in the skills required to harness the power of the Cell processor. Warzawa and Belgium are next in line on his visit to Europe.

Professor Lasse Natvig was the NTNU coordinator for the event.

03/09 - Best Paper Nomination

The paper "SArt: Towards Innovation at the Intersection of Software Engineering and Art" by Anna Trifonova, Salah U. Ahmed, and Letizia Jaccheri was nominated as one of the five best papers (of 90 in total) at the International Conference on Information Systems Development.

The evaluation committee proclaimed that "the paper is not only very interesting (because of the innovative topic of art and software), but it also shows solid and serious research and is very well written".

Anna is from Bulgaria, Salah is from Bangladesh, and Letizia is from Italy. A great example of the department's multi cultural work force.

Download: SArt: Towards Innovation at the Intersection of Software Engineering and Art (pdf)

24/08 - Computer Game Competition

For almost two weeks this year's new students have been working in groups, making computer games. The teaching assistants nominated ten of the games for a final demonstration, and a student vote. The demonstration of the games marked the end of the Teknostart and Realstart events for the new students.

Escape from Dragvoll won the student's vote. It was created by Stupid Cat Productions (Michael Marszalek, Nikhil Luthra, Geir I. Kihle Hanssen, Stian Paulsen, Cai Helltun, Jon Kjetil Øye, and Ole Mikkel Sjølie) which appear in the photo.

To run the game: Install Scratch and download the file Escape from Dragvoll which you open from the Scratch application. 

Apple Theft Auto and Superhøna Turbo came in 2nd and 3rd place. The other nominated games were: Andy's Aquarium, Dance Trance 2008, Space, Tanks, Invation, Air Protector, and Super Zario Zos. Each member of the three best teams won NOK 500.