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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.
By Tor Gunnar Høst Houeland
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 (pdf)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
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.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
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.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
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)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
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.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
21/08 - PhD Defence Simon Thoresen
20th of August Simon Thoresen completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree.
He defended his PhD thesis:
An effecient solution to inexact graph matching with application to computer vision (pdf)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
15/08 - Ny IT student i Trondheim
Eline Melkild er en av IDIs nye studenter og har reist fra Tromsø for å starte sine IT studier i Trondheim.
Hvorfor valgte du Trondheim som studieby og hvilket studie følger du?
- Jeg har hørt mye bra om Trondheim som studieby, så derfor valgte jeg Trondheim før jeg bestemte meg for studium. Jeg kan ikke så mye data enda, men jeg valgte å begynne på bachelor informatikk fordi jeg ønsker å lære, og det virker veldig interresant.
Hvilke forventninger har du til informatikkstudiet?
- Jeg skal bli god i data. Det høres veldig gøy ut!
Hvordan føler du deg mottatt ved NTNU?
- Føler meg veldig god mottatt. Fadderene er imøtekommende og vil ha med folk på det som skjer. Kjempebra ordning med aktiviteter og opplegget rundt studiestart.
Onlines fadderordning
Leder for fadderuka for informatikk, Mats Angermo Ringstad fra Online, forteller at fadderordningen er semesterets viktigste arrangement. Onlines fadderopplegg varer i to uker, og er Gløshaugens lengste. Helt siden nyttår har Online jobbet med å skaffe sponsorer og samarbeidspartnere. Ringstad forklarer at det investeres mye ressurser i fadderordningen, men det er verdt det når både faddere og nye studenter har det utrolig artig!
Online utdeler T-Shirts både til faddere og fadderbarn som viser tilhørighet til linjeforeningen og informatikkstudiet (se bildet). På bilde: Wenche Meland, Eline Melkild og Mats Angermo Ringstad.
Abakus' fadderordning
Leder i Arrkom, Ingrid Hjulstad, forteller at for Abakus er fadderopplegget veldig viktig, og det legges ned mye arbeid i planleggingen. Arrangementskomiteen har hovedansvaret og legger opp til at alle de nye studentene på Komtek og Datateknkikk skal få en morsom og sosial start på studiene.
Fadderopplegget startet på mandag, og varer i 2 uker, etterfulgt av opptak i linjeforeningen og immatrikuleringsball første helgen i september. Opplegget inneholder fester, pizzakvelder, sportslige arrangementer i dødensdal, grilling og mye mer. Fadderukene skal først og fremst være en morsom opplevelse for å gi de nye studentene et godt sosialt grunnlag før de tar fatt på skoleåret. Mange viktige vennskapsbånd blir knyttet gjennom fadderopplegget, forteller Ingrid.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
14/08 - Matriculation Ceremony
5500 new students attended the matriculation ceremony. In the plenum ceremony the Norwegian Minister of Education, Øystein Djupedal, and the NTNU Rector Torbjørn Digernes held speeches to encourage the new students to do their best.
Afterwards the students attended local cermonies where the matriculation certificates were awarded. In the photo Vice Dean Kristian Seip awards a certificate to one of our new IDI students.
Read the full story in Universitetsavisa (in Norwegian)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
20/06 - CAiSE Round Up
CAiSE 2007 took place at the Britannia hotel in Trondheim, Norway from 11th to 15th of June. Around 140 registered for the main conference, and 250 registered for the pre-conference events which took place from 11th to 12th of June. In total 310 participants from 29 countries visited the conference and the pre-conference events.
Arne Sølvberg was the honorable panellist in the panel session The Future of Information Systems Engineering - ISE research from 1977, in 2007, and how it will be in 2037.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
19/06 - Best Paper Awards in Visualisation to IDI-employees and Students
At the TPCG'07 conference held in Leeds last week, Odd Erik Gundersen and MSc student Lars Tangvald were awarded the Terry Hewitt Prize for Best Technical Research Student Paper for their contribution: "Level of Detail for Physically Based Fire". At the same conference, Jo Skjermo was awarded the Rob Fletcher Prize Best Student Application Paper for his contribution "GPU-based Wind Animation of Trees".
By Bård Kjos
14/06 - Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering
The Dean of the IME Faculty, Arne Sølvberg, is one of the pioneers of information system modelling, and one of the co-founders of the international CAiSE conference. A book, Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering, has been written in his honour. It includes 20 contributions from renowned researchers, covering all aspects of conceptual modeling.
The book was until recently a secret, but on sunday 10th of June 2007 it was publicly announced by the editor John Krogstie. The announcement was made on the occasion of Arne Sølvberg’s 67th birthday, as the book was written in honour of his efforts in the research field.
The volume is published by Springer, and is now available.
Read the full story in Universitetsavisa (in Norwegian).
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
07/06 - Premier International Conference in Trondheim
The 19th international Conferences on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'07) takes place at the Britannia Hotel in Trondheim, from June 11-15, 2007. The premier conference is hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), with Professor John Krogstie as general chair.
The special theme of CAiSE'07 is Ubiquitous Information Systems Engineering, reflecting that modern information systems often span activities performed in several organisations and at different geographical locations. The conference aims to bring together practitioners and researchers in the field of information systems engineering, discussing the aspects related to information systems engineering in ubiquitous environments.
More information in the CAiSE'07 conference website.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
06/06 - Ensuring Digital Access and Preservation
Professor Ingeborg Sølvberg and the working group she has directed, unanimously agree that a digital Institutional Repository will provide easier access to scientific work, as well as solving the preservation challenge.
It is important for NTNU to implement strategies which ensure easy access to scientific work, as well as preservation of knowledge for future generations. By using a digital Institutional Repository the scientific personnel will have one solution for both easy access to- and digital preservation of knowledge.
Currently scientific personnel often keep scientific work at personal web pages, which disappear when leaving the university. A digital Institutional Repository will ensure both availability and accessability of knowledge.
Read the full story in Universitetsavisa (in Norwegian).
Photo: Professor Ingeborg Sølvberg and Rector Torbjørn Digernes.
Photographer: Trond Åm.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
05/06 - PhD Defence Anders Kofod-Petersen
1st of June Anders Kofod-Petersen completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree.
He defended his PhD thesis:
A Cased-Based Approach to Realising Ambient Intelligence among Agents (pdf)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
04/06 - IME Graduation Ceremony
On friday 1st of June, the graduate students and staff members of the IME departments celebrated this years graduate students in the IME Graduation Ceremony.
The head of TietoEnator, Per Bakseter, held an encouraging speech for this years graduate students. Torbjørn Digernes, the Rector of NTNU, and Arne Sølvberg, the Dean of the IME faculty, also partook in the event.
Read more about the IME Graduation Ceremony in Universitetsavisa (in Norwegian)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
25/05 - Search Engine Technology in Gene Searching
Heri Ramampiaro uses search engine tehcnology for gene searching in Biotracer. The Biotracer search engine is designed for biomedicinal (the theoretical research of medical correlation) search and retrieval.
By combining search engine technology and user feedback, Biotracer aims to provide search results both faster and more accurate to medical researchers and doctors, than any currently available solution.
Read the full article at forskning.no (in Norwegian)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
03/05 - PhD Defence Haakon Dybdahl
3rd of May Haakon Dybdahl completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree.
Appearing from left to right on photo: Haakon Dybdahl, Gjessing, Gonzalez, and Pauline Haddow.
He defended his PhD thesis:
Architectural Techniques to Improve Cache Utilization (pdf)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
18/04 - A New Computer Game Concept
The joint efforts of Alf Inge Wang and the Tellu cell phone company has created a new computer game concept; Multiplayer On One Screen (MOOS).
The technology enables multiple players to interact on the same cinema display through Bluetooth cell phone technology.
The full story is available at Dagbladet.no (in Norwegian).
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
16/04 - IDI Open Programming Contest
On saturday 14th of April, 49 teams of up to three programmers competed in the IDI Open programming contest. Each team managed to solve at least two of the nine problems presented in the contest.
Java the ^, a student team (Erik Axel Nielsen, Rune Fevang, and Ruben Spaans) from IDI, solved nine of nine problems and won the contest. Stuff thinkers won 2nd place and Nanashi won 3rd place.
Find more information on the highscore list and on the IDI Open 2007 web page. The event was sponsored by Fast.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
29/03 - PhD Defence Cyril Banino-Rokkones
27th of March Cyril Banino-Rokkones completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree.
He defended his PhD thesis:
Algorithmic and Scheduling Techniques for Heterogeneous and Distributed Computing (pdf)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
23/03 - PhD Defence Jennifer Sampson
21st of March Jennifer Sampson completed her trial lecture and thesis defence, and she will eventually be awarded the PhD degree.
She defended her PhD thesis:
A Comprehenshive Framework for Ontology Alignment Quality (pdf)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
20/03 - Norsk informatikkolympiade
Finalen for Norsk informatikkolympiade (NIO) 2007 ble arrangert på NTNU i helgen. Finalen ble avholdt lørdag 17. mars 2007, med elleve deltagere fra videregående skoler.
Vinneren ble Ivar Urdalen fra Notodden VGS. Eirik Ravnan (på bildet) fra Gjøvik VGS sikret andreplassen, mens Sivert Berg fra Olav Duun VGS kom på tredjeplassen.
Søndag ga Anne Elster deltagerene et foredrag om "Supercomputing og MPI", etterfulgt av omvisning på superdataanleggene til NTNU sammen med Bjørn Lindi, ITEA. Alle deltagerene ble invitert til å delta på IDI Open 2007.
Les mer på NIOs hjemmeside.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
09/03 - IDI Publication Rate Soars
The official report from DBH shows that IDI produced 111.8 "publication points" in 2006, which is up 30,6 percent from 2005. This is by far the largest increase at NTNU.By Bård Kjos
20/02 - Secustream Technologies
Secustream Technologies is a young start up company that creates security solutions for the fast gowing IP-TV market. The enabling technology behind Secustream was developed by Gisle Grimen and Christian Mönch at IDI over the last three years.
Secustream Technologies was founded in October 2006 by Gisle and Christian together with TTO/NTNU and Telenor.
More detailed story in Norwegian: NTNU-teknologi til Hollywood.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
16/02 - PhD Defence Frode Sørmo
9th of February Frode Sørmo completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree.
He defended his PhD thesis:
Case-Based Tutoring with Concept Maps (pdf)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
06/02 - Bør satsa stort på dataspel
En nettverksgruppe arbeider for å oppretta eit nasjonalt kompetansesenter for spelforskning i Trondheim. Førsteamanuensis Alf Inge Wang deltar i gruppen og har kartlagt spillrelaterte aktiviteter ved NTNU. Les hele saken i Universitetsavisa.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
Articles From 2006
13/12 - CAiSE'07 in Trondheim: record #submissions
CAiSE'07, to be held in Trondheim 11-15 June, received 301 submissions. This is a record number for the CAiSE conference series, and generally very high for a single track event. IDI persons have key roles in the conference organization, cf CAiSE'07 Web Site.By Guttorm Sindre
01/12 - Insatiable Needs for Computational Power
Read what Universitetsavisa says about the new Njord super computer.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
30/11 - Falanx Microsystems won "Reodorprisen"
Falanx Microsystems has been awarded Reodorprisen for it’s 3D chip for mobile devices. The award was presented by Innovasjon Norge at a seremony in Oslo 29th of November.
Falanx Microsystems is a Trondheim based company, which was acquired by ARM in June 2006. The company was founded in 2001 by three students from our department and one student from Department of Electronics and Telecommunications. The company has it’s roots in projects done during their last year at the University, supervised by Professor Lasse Natvig, Professor Letizia Jaccheri and Professor Einar Aas (Department of Electronics and Telecommunications).
By Roger Midtstraum
30/11 - New National Supercomputer: Njord
Today, the new national supercomputing facility Njord was officially opened by NTNU's Rector Torbjørn Digernes. Njord, an IBM p575+ computer which delivers a peak performance of 7,5 TeraFLOPS, will be a central resource for computational intensive research at NTNU.
In the photo, we see Rector Digernes, Associate Professor Anne Elster and CEO IBM Norway Morten Torkildsen just after Njord was opened.
Anne Elster is Director of Infrastructure, Program for Computational Science and Visulisation at NTNU.
TV Adressa (streaming video)
By Roger Midtstraum
30/11 - The Capital of Search
Schrödingers katt, a science television show by NRK (Norway's public broadcaster), recently made a special feature on Trondheim as the World Capital of Search, in which professor Arne Halaas appeared.
Full interview (streaming video)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
28/11 - Disseminator of the Year at IME
IDI's professor Letizia Jaccheri was awarded "Disseminator of the Year" at the faculty's traditional Christmas Buffet on November 27.
It was pointed out by the dean of the faculty, professor Arne Sølvberg, that Jaccheri not only has written the book "Cuore e Computer" ("Heart and Computer"); she has also been heavily engaged in cooperation with the Trondheim art scene and NTNU's Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, active in the Open Source Software (OSS) community as well as being a highly visible role model for female computer scientists and engineers.
Congratulations!
More information about Letizia in the media.
By Bård Kjos
23/11 - PhD Defence Hao Ding
23rd of September Hao Ding completed his trial lecture and thesis defence, and he will eventually be awarded the PhD degree.
He defended his PhD thesis:
A Semantic Search Framework in Peer-to-Peer Based Digital Libraries (pdf)
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
10/11 - PhD Defence Hien Nam Le
On November 10, Hien Nam Le completed his trial lecture and thesis defence. November 14, he was awarded the PhD degree by the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering.
Hien defended his PhD thesis:
A Transaction Processing System for Supporting Mobile Collaborative Works (pdf)
Photos from the dissertation.
By Kai Torgeir Dragland
09/11 - Artificial Intelligence Aiding the Oil Industry
IDI's professor Agnar Aamodt and adjunct associate professor Ketil Bø (Trollhetta) have succeeded in developing software which has the potential to prevent halts due to drill strings getting stuck in the well during drilling operations.
During the next two years a system to prevent stuck pipe and other unwanted events during drilling will be developed.
Aamodt and Bø has, together with associate professor Pål Skalle of the Department of Petroleum Technology, succeeded in having Statoil, ProVenture Seed, and NFR invest a total of 20MNOK in the establishing of the new company Volve AS and funding of its first R&D project.
The technology is based on results from many years of research at NTNU on case-based and model-based reasoning targeted at the oil and gas domain, as well as advanced use of pattern recognition methods, and the company expects to hire several new employees, primarly software developers or programmers, in near future.
By Bård Kjos
19/10 - New Professor
We congratulate our new professor, Kjetil Nørvåg. On Tuesday he was awarded the professor title.By Kai Torgeir Dragland
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