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Neural networks behind social media can consume an infinite amount of energy

Artificial neural networks are deployed intensively by social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to recommend content that matches user preferences. The process is energy intensive and generates heavy carbon…

Four accepts at STOC 22

The BARC team is represented yet again at the STOC conference.

5 BARC presentation at FOCS this week!

FOCS 2021, the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, is taking place this week as a virtual conference and again this year BARC is well represented.

Best Student Paper at SODA 2022

At SODA this year BARC is represented with two papers, one of which has been awarded Best Student Paper written by two of our PhD students Lorenzo Beretta and Jakub Tětek.

André Nusser joins BARC

BARC welcomes Postdoc André Nusser to the team.

As the first Dane, Professor Mikkel Thorup receives the prestigious Fulkerson Prize

Professor Mikkel Thorup is the first Dane ever to be awarded the prize for finding the solution to a problem that it took him 18 years to figure out.

Training neural networks can drain the world of all power

A new paper proves that training neural networks is even harder. All the world's energy can be used to train a single network of modest size without reaching the optimum. This calls for restricting the training process…

Mikkel Abrahamsen receives a DFF grant

Assistant Professor Mikkel Abrahamsen has received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark of 6.2 million DKK for his project "Algorithms for Packing and Decomposition Problems".

Reconstructing The Evolutionary Tree of Life with BARC

Is it possible to reconstruct the evolutionary tree of life, despite our limited knowledge of the past? Recently, a group of three researchers from BARC-UCPH and two former UCPH researchers had a major break through on…

BARC hosts NWERC hub

22 teams from Denmark, Sweden and Norway participated in BARC’s NWERC hub on November 20 & 21, 2021 and contributed to a weekend of focused programming, academic presentations and fun networking.