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The BARC Family Event

BARC opened its doors to an afternoon with families, welcoming Danupon Nanongkai to the team as well as his wife and daughter.

BARC turns 4

Four years ago today, on September 1, 2017, the BARC Centre officially began its journey.

From basic research to machine learning libraries

This is a story of foundational research, and innovative algorithms motivated by basic algorithmic questions, unfolding into real-world impact: the TensorSketch, from theory to practice.

Mikkel Thorup receives a Fulkerson Prize

Professors Thorup and Kawarabayashi have won an esteemed Fulkerson Prize for their paper “Deterministic Edge Connectivity in Near-Linear Time”.

Jakub Tětek joins BARC

BARC welcomes PhD student Jakub Tětek to the team.

BARC has 4 accepted papers at STOC '21

Again four BARC papers have been accepted at the prestigious ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC, as well as one paper by the closely affiliated complexity group MIAO headed by Jakob Nordström.

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.