A commercial mindset is just as important as a good idea
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.
Data detects irregularities before things go wrong
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.
The programming language of the future is being developed in Denmark
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.
Intelligent technology must help prevent a repeat of the floods of 2011 and 2013
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.
New database provides valuable knowledge about pollution from maritime transport
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.
The IT University of Copenhagen has doubled the number of female IT students after a few years – a series of initiatives have a positive effect
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.
Database can become a potential gamechanger for robotics
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.
Quantum technology and digitalisation: DIREC invited to a research workshop at DTU on 6 January
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.
A new data tool can help municipalities make transport solutions more sustainable
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.
Researchers and industry are investigating the possibilities of blockchain-based voting
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.