Department of Computer and Information Science http://www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/su/idi-engelsk-7dec06.ppt

1. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU Faculty of Information Tecnology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering Department of Computer andInformation Sciencehttp://www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/su/idi-engelsk-7dec06.ppt

2. Organization Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

3. Key figures • Employees: 175 • ”Production”: 48.000 ECTS)/year • Scientific papers: ca. 250/year. • Budget 2006: 108 MNOK (€ 13 M) • NTNU, ordinary: 78 MNOK • NTNU, strategic: 15 MNOK • External. research fundings: 15 MNOK Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

4. People • Faculty: 58Permanent, full time: 41Adjunct (20% positions): 7 Temporary, full time: 10 • Staff: 27Engineers: 19Administrative: 8 • PhD students, post.docs: 89PhD-students: 72 Post docs 17 Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

5. Teaching activities • Basic computer science (undergraduate level) • For all engineering faculties • For BSc computer science students • For BSc and MSc students at other faculties • Specialist education (graduate level) • Master in technology (engineering profile) • Master of science(science profile) • PhD education • Cross disciplinary programs • Social sciences • Humanities • Medicine Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

6. Teaching volume • Number of courses: • MSc/BSc: 32 • Engineering: 44 • PhD level: 13 • ”Production”: • 5500 course students (exams per year) • 800 full time student equivalents • 30/70 divided between science and engineering courses • 7-8% of the total NTNU “production” ! • 6-10 PhD awarded per year Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

7. “Sivilingeniør” (M.Eng.) - structure • Year 1 and 2 • General basis (mathematics, physics, electronics, philosophy) • Basic computer science (programming, algorithms, databases, software engineering) • Year 3 • Broad introduction to professional computer science • Year 4 and 5 • Specialities, cross disciplinary (wide spectre of choices) • Thesis (final two semesters – 100 person-years annually) Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

8. Student volumes – engineering From 1999: Separate admission (80 per year) to communications technology Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

9. Complex Data Systems • Computer systems • Neural nets, hardware/software co-design, architectures for parallel computing • Algorithm Construction and Visualization • Search algorithms, parallel algorithms • Computer graphics, scientific visualisation, modelling and animation, virtual reality, virtual heritage Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

10. Data and Information Management • Databases and Distributed Systems • Multimedia, distributed systems, geographical information systems, high capacity, high reliability, parallelism • Information Management • Digital Libraries; Open Archives; Metadata in a distributed world; Multi-media content; Information models • Interoperability between systems, collections • Information Retrieval in: Bioinformatics and Health; Geo-referenced systems; Multilingual collections Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

11. Development and Use of IT-systems • Software Engineering • Software quality, software development processes, object orientation and reuse, OSS/COTS, software architecture, cooperation technology • Human Computer Interaction • Dialogue modelling and design • Information Systems • Collaborative technology, enterprise systems, conceptual modelling, distributed information systems Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

12. Intelligent Systems • Artificial Intelligence and Learning • Neural nets, case-based reasoning, robotics, genetic algorithms • Knowledge Based Systems • Approximate reasoning based on incomplete and precarious data, knowledge-based program design, natural language analysis • Image Processing • Structural methods, statistical methods, computer vision, artificial intelligence in image processing Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

13. Project examples • Fast Search and Transfer ASA • search technology deployed by Lycos • CLUSTRA (now: Sun • open system platform, zero down-time, linearly scalable, high performance SQL database system • Falanx (“Reodorprisen”, nat’l gründer award in 2006) • Graphical processor for mobile phones • Virtual heritage • Medieval Trondheim • Numerous international projects (mostly EU) Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

14. Typical ”users” of IDI students • Consultant companies • Research institutions • Service to the petroleum industry • New enterprises (nowadays initiated by the students themselves …) • +++ And indirectly serving the whole nation. Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

15. Collaboration with industry • Student projects • 4th year: at least 280 hours/student, external “customer” • Diploma thesis • 5th year: at least 680 hours/student for those with industrial assignments • PhD projects • Industrial assignments Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

16. Important industrial partners • Telenor • Adjunct professor sponsored • PhD students sponsored • Accenture (prev: Andersen Consulting) • PhD students sponsored • Fast Search & Transfer • Professor sponsored • SINTEF • Professor sponsored • and Statoil, Hydro, Skattedirektoratet, … Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU

17. Contact information • Address: Department of Computer and Information Science Sem Sælands vei 7-9 NO-7491 Trondheim NORWAY • Phone/fax: • Phone: +47 7359 3440 • Fax: +47 7359 4466 • Internet: • Web: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/ • E-mail: idi@idi.ntnu.no Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU