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BARC result on national news site

New BARC result makes it onto national news.

Danish invention to make computer servers worldwide more climate friendly

An elegant new algorithm developed by Danish researchers can significantly reduce the resource consumption of the world's computer servers. Computer servers are as taxing on the climate as global air traffic combined,…

Prestigious STOC Test of Time Award to Mikkel Thorup

At the top conference within theoretical computer science: “ACM Symposion on the theory of Computing” (STOC), Mikkel Thorup and Uri Zwick received a 20-Year STOC Test of Time Award.

CSRankings puts University of Copenhagen 4th in the world

Within Algorithms and Complexity CSRankings puts the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen 4th in the world within the field.

Load Balancing with a Dynamic Set of Balls and Bins

This new result is yielding the right understanding of load-balancing in a dynamic environment and presents a key to drastically cutting server based CO2 emissions in the future.

Ioana Bercea joins BARC

BARC welcomes Postdoc Ioana Bercea to the team.

Hashing for Strong Concentration

Real world data sets often consists of millions of data points which makes it a non-trivial task to store them efficiently. Four BARC researchers have developed a superior solution!

New Professor investigates differential privacy techniques to protect sensitive data

How do we develop solutions that can make useful data analyses without invading privacy? Is it possible to share data on populations that cannot be traced back to individuals?

Danupon Nanongkai joins BARC

Danupon Nanongkai will start as a professor of theoretical computer science at DIKU in March 2021.

Mikkel Thorup about digital contact tracing

Mikkel Thorup is interviewed by Thore Husfeldt on the popular science podcast Cast IT about digital contact tracing, the possibilities, restrictions and loopholes.