D3A 2.0 – Open call for session proposals
8 March 2024
Mark your calendars for October 22-23, 2024, as we gear up for another great community-driven conference in Nyborg – Danish Digitalization, Data Science and AI 2.0 – also called D3A 2.0.
8 March 2024
Mark your calendars for October 22-23, 2024, as we gear up for another great community-driven conference in Nyborg – Danish Digitalization, Data Science and AI 2.0 – also called D3A 2.0.
7 March 2023
In 2023, there was a significant breakthrough in digitisation, particularly in generative AI, which became a widespread topic of conversation. The introduction of ChatGPT allowed everyone to explore the possibilities of interacting with advanced language models.
6 March 2024
Probabilistic programs, a fundamental concept in modern computing, have gained increasing attention due to their versatile applications across various domains, including machine learning, cryptography, and statistics.
13 December 2023
PhD Student Axel Christfort and Supervisor Associate Professor Tijs Slaats from the University of Copenhagen won the Process Discovery Contest at the 5th International Conference on Process Mining with their DisCoveR miner.
11 December 2023
Kurt Nielsen is one of the pioneers behind encryption and blockchain technology for protecting sensitive data while in use, and co-founder of Partisia. Here, he tells about the journey from researcher to CEO.
1 December 2023
Language models like ChatGPT will change how we conduct research. To ensure transparency and maintain trust in research, a code of conduct should be drawn up, writes the Royal Academy in Altinget, an online Danish political review.
29 November 2023
Quantum technology opens up a world of possibilities, but we must acknowledge that the path forward may not necessarily be easy. Denmark can play a crucial role in the development, but to realize this potential, focused investments and, above all, competent digital specialists are needed.
21 November 2023
Danish farmers are ready to embrace new technologies to support the green transition and ensure smarter production. Multi-robot systems are a crucial part of the solution, but barriers need to be dismantled and teething problems eliminated for seamless interaction between farmers and robots.
20 November 2023
This year’s Digital Tech Summit formed the framework for a unique conversation space. With over 4,000 participants, 100 professional presentations from 8 stages, and 80 companies, startups, and organizations in the exhibition area, universities, companies, and legislators gathered to discuss the development and use of AI.
23 October 2023
The LearnT Conference 2023 at Technical University of Denmark was organized by the Center for Digital Learning Technology at DTU Compute with support from DIREC. The conference shed light on the rapidly evolving field of digital learning technologies and brought together an impressive panel of experts and participants from academia and the business world.
4 October 2023
Susanne Bødker’s research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has had a profound influence for decades on how we interact with technology in our daily lives and work.
3 October 2023
We met the world-renowned robotics expert for a discussion on Danish tech research compared to American and Swedish research and on the next major advancements in robotics technology.
3 October 2023
The research project, REWORK, explores the future of hybrid work technologies and experiences. Three Copenhagen-based artists presented their interpretation of how technology in the near future could transform our work lives.
3 October 2023
The research project called ‘REWORK’ aims at developing the digital meeting room to make human interaction feel more authentic and personal, much like in a physical meeting.
9 August 2023
“This can go far” a team of researchers from Aarhus University realized when a PhD project turned out to have great application potential. The project became the launch pad for the company Coana.
9 August 2023
DIREC invites to a high calibre research meeting with the workshop ‘Verifiable and Robust AI’ in November.
4 July 2023
The agricultural sector is the least digitized sector in the world, and a large part of food quality assurance is still handled manually. The aim of a research project is to strengthen understanding of and trust in AI and image analysis, which can improve quality assurance, food quality and optimize production.
15 June 2023
Maja Hanne Kirkeby is Associate Professor at Roskilde University (RUC) and works closely with companies and other researchers to develop more energy efficient software solutions.
13 June 2023
Getting a complex piece of hardware to work with all the variables of the real world is difficult. But through a DIREC-project collaboration, Luca Pezzarossa got much closer to having a working prototype.
7 June 2023
DIREC works to ensure that Denmark gets more university-based tech startups, and there is plenty of inspiration to be gained from successful entrepreneurs such as Chief Physician Søren Andreas Just and Professor of Medical Robotics from SDU, Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu. They are co-founders of the company ROPCA and the robot Arthur, which will revolutionize everyday life in busy hospital wards.
25 May 2023
A defect at a processing plant in Brazil meant that production was at a standstill for three days. The incident has prompted SANOVO TECHNOLOGY GROUP to invest time and data in a DIREC research project, which involves machine learning and IoT with the aim of preventing similar breakdowns in the future.
15 May 2023
On December 9, 2021, businesses and organizations around the world got a serious surprise when a critical vulnerability in the open source logging module Log4J, which is used by millions of applications, was discovered. The security vulnerability could be exploited by hackers to gain access to the underlying systems and networks.
13 April 2023
Denmark must prepare for more extreme weather in the future. By using machine learning and artificial intelligence, researchers will effectively be able to prevent floods.
28 March 2023
A recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is full of distressing reading. Digital development must speed up, and researchers can play a leading role in the development of digital solutions to counteract climate change.
24 March 2023
The better we can use data to calculate the CO2 emissions from sea, road and air transport, the more effectively we can implement measures that have effect. Researchers from AAU and SDU are leading the development of the most comprehensive environmental database so far, which is based on decades of data.
15 March 2023
A DIREC project led by researchers from the IT University and the University of Southern Denmark shows that a series of efforts have provided a wider recruitment field in the computer science studies and reduced dropout rates.
27 February 2023
In DIREC, we have accelerated with new projects and activities in 2022 to ensure that Denmark is at the forefront of digital research and innovation.
22 February 2023
How do we create future technologies and at the same time maintain a critical approach to the many new possibilities? A workshop on speculative design challenged the PhD students to take a critical look at the downside of technology.
20 February 2023
The reuse of robot data would make it much easier to improve existing or set up new robot solutions. This was the aim of the completed ReRoPro project led by Norbert Krüger, who is a Professor at the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute at the University of Southern Denmark and part of SDU Robotics.
20 January 2023
How do we create a Danish community of computer scientists who can develop future software for quantum technologies? This was the subject of a workshop where 40 leading researchers were recently gathered at Technical University of Denmark.
19 January 2023
Researchers from Aalborg University, together with Rambøll, have developed a tool which contributes to a better overview of CO2 emissions on the road network.
15 December 2022
Denmark has formed an ambitious government framework listing a large number of proposals for reforms that must meet the major societal challenges we are facing. We wish the 23 new ministers all the best in their new jobs and we are delighted to have a minister for digitalisation, as there will plenty to deal with during the next four years with a world in great change.
22 December 2022
Aarhus University and the Alexandra Institute have been granted DKK 1.8 million by Digital Research Centre Denmark (DIREC) to investigate safe software and protocols for voting and blockchain governance. The Concordium Blockchain is the industry partner in this project.
22 December 2022
Christmas is coming after an extraordinary and eventful year. The digital agenda is busy and, in DIREC we have been fully engaged with placing Denmark at the forefront of digital research and innovation. We would like to thank you for a great year with many fruitful collaborations and projects.
20 December 2022
Artificial intelligence can prevent costly production breakdowns and predict exactly when a robotic system requires service and maintenance. The technology is expected to save billions in lost production and general service costs for industrial companies.
7 December 2022
A group of researchers from the IT University will – in collaboration with the Greenlandic authorities – investigate how an internet election will affect the voters’ confidence in the electoral process. DIREC has granted the group 1.8 million DKK for the project.
24 November 2022
Universities will upskill Danish high school teachers with the latest IT knowledge and inspiration for teaching. Dedicated teachers are important inspiration for young people when choosing their course of study.
16 November 2022
In Denmark we have a shortage of medical specialists and nurses. In 2025, according to the Danish Nurses’ Organization, there will be a shortage of at least 6,000 nurses, and the lack of medical specialists is also a huge problem for a hospital sector under a historically high pressure.
1 November 2022
This autumn’s last big tech event has completed with great success. Thank you for two exciting days at the Digital Tech Summit 2022 in Bella Center Copenhagen.
27 October 2022
Denmark’s talented researchers must become better at collaborating across universities and industry. Only then do we stand a chance against the big foreign knowledge institutions.
17 October 2022
There is an increasing demand in Denmark for new and more advanced healthcare services. In the coming years, there will be more elderly people with treatment needs and a decreasing youth population to take care of the elderly.
10 October 2022
Artificial intelligence must make drone swarms autonomous in order to use them as an effective tool for searches at sea. Drone swarms must also be able to respond fast in the event of floods and other natural disasters.
4 October 2022
A huge thanks to all those who participated and helped make the DIREC Seminar 2022 a success.
The DIREC team had aimed to put together a programme that we hope accommodated everyone’s interests.
23 July 2022
Artificial intelligence and algorithms can help calculate how we can best heat our homes, produce efficiently, transport with the least possible energy consumption, and make optimal use of the IT infrastructure as part of the green transition. But it requires that we dare to delegate more tasks to algorithms and invest more in research and development.
22 June 2022
Companies are increasingly investing in systems with sensors that can capture employees’ interaction with physical objects such as motors and robots.
31 May 2022
A new approach for gathering robotic experience from industry, so companies don’t have to start from scratch every time they need to put robots into production, has been launched.
26 April 2022
Blockchain-based technologies can eliminate the need for an intermediary when making transactions between two parties and can ensure that data cannot be modified.
8 April 2022
Miao Zhang focuses on building efficient and explainable prototypes for different tasks and data in an automated manner.
31 March 2022
Zimmermann is part of the project Verifiable and Safe AI for Autonomous Systems and he works on understanding the foundations of correct and secure systems.
2 March 2022
We have initiated projects for a total of DKK 166 million in which university researchers work together with companies and public organizations to develop new digital technologies.