Title: From Computing to Interaction
Speaker: Professor Jørgen Staunstrup, Provost IT University of Copenhagen

Time: 9:30am, Apr. 11 (Monday), 2011
Place: Lecture Room, Level 3, Building No. 5, State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, ISCAS

Abstract:

The use and appearance of IT technology is under rapid and fundamental change. Whereas the primary focus previously was on the computer and its use for computing the technology now manifests itself pervasively, indirectly and invisibly, for example in context-aware applications. Many of the fundamental research challenges in IT, for example, in software engineering remains, however, new ones also emerge as a consequence of the new appearance of IT. The talk will present examples of research at the IT University to interaction. The IT University is the youngest university in Denmark devoted entirely to the digital world.

Short bio:
Professor Jørgen Staunstrup has a PhD from University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He has been on the faculty of Aarhus University, The Technical University of Denmark and since 2003 the IT University of Copenhagen. He is now the provost with the overall responsibility for research at the IT University, see also http://www.itu.dk/people/jst/