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  • Now everyone can write music

    Published Apr 02, 2013

    With the help of the music app ScoreCleaner Notes you can transform your recorded tones into written scores. No knowledge of music theory is required – all you need is a joy of playing music.
 “Music scores is a universal language, so the market for the app is huge”, says Sven Emtell, computer science engineer at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and co-creator of the new music technology.

  • Jan Gulliksen receives STIMDI’s Grand Prize for 2012

    Published Feb 22, 2013

    Jan Gulliksen, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Dean of the School of Computer Science and Communication, has been awarded the 2012 Grand Prize by STIMDI.

  • Report exposes Pakistani e-waste recycling workers’ plight

    Published Feb 21, 2013

    A 6-year-old girl in a remote Pakistani village sits quietly in the family’s kitchen, breathing toxic fumes that drift from across the table where her father is burning a computer circuit board. The scene is one of scores documented by researcher Shakila Umair, whose has compiled the first known evidence of horrifying conditions in the country’s secretive e-waste recycling cottage industry.

  • Jan Gulliksen starts to blog

    Published Feb 06, 2013

    Jan Gulliksen, Dean at CSC, recently launched a new, personal website where he also writes a blog.

  • Babak Rasolzadeh listed as a top talent in Sweden

    Published Jan 31, 2013

    Former CSC PhD student Babak Rasolzadeh was listed on the prestigious annual Super Talent list provided by the Swedish finance magazine Veckans Affärer.

  • The Human Brain Project receives large research grant from the EU

    Published Jan 25, 2013

    The Human Brain Project, HBP, which combines brain research with ICT (Information and Communications Technology), is one of the two research ventures that have been chosen to receive funding from the EU through the Future and Emerging Technologies, FET, Flagship program.

  • Professor Lorenz Hilty new affiliated professor at CESC and CSC

    Published Jan 21, 2013

    Professor Lorenz Hilty, well-known name within IT and sustainability, is appointed affiliated professor of IT and sustainable development at the Centre of Sustainable Communication (CESC) and the School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) as of 1 January.

  • Virtual Grasp – an award-winning innovation for both rehabilitation and computer gaming

    Published Jan 16, 2013

    Don’t bother with the keyboard and the computer mouse - use your hands instead. Virtual Grasp is an innovation that can be useful to rehabilitate stroke patients, but is also useful in computer gaming.

  • Researcher at KTH develops tool for evaluating methods for DNA analysis

    Published Jan 10, 2013

    Francesco Vezzi, researcher from KTH Royal Institute of Technology at the SciLifeLab has, together with international colleagues, developed a method to better compare the quality of two or several versions of what is called genome assemblies.

  • Mobile battery influence on our mobility during the Mobile Life open house

    Published Dec 20, 2012

    A large number of people appeared during the open house arranged by Mobile Life on 12 December at Kista. Kristina (Kia) Höök, researcher in interaction design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and also one of the founders of the centre, was one of the people who greeted visitors. And among those presenting their projects was PhD student Pedro Ferreira’s BetteryLogger, which logs information on mobile phones in order to monitor how we are actually restricted by the need to charge our mobile phone batteries.

  • Elina Meier received the Bo Rydin prize for best master thesis

    Published Dec 19, 2012

    Elina Meier, student at the computer science programme at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, has won the Bo Rydin prize of 30,000 SEK for best master thesis. She has produced a master thesis on designing an improved instruction, or algorithm, for cache storage.

  • Forgotten researchers improve the ranking

    Published Dec 18, 2012

    This year KTH climbed more than 40 places on two of the most important global ranking lists. But in order to achieve the ranking goals more researchers need to produce world-class articles and KTH must raise the visibility of the research stars that the ranking institutes have missed.

  • Networking without borders gave convincing projects on a cross-disciplinary project course

    Published Dec 10, 2012

    Possibilities for people to check how their older relatives are doing, a way to speed up recruitments for both employers and job seekers, an app to store recipies with related family traditions. That was some of the contributions from students taking the KID/PEL course within the framework of studies in Human Computer Interaction.

  • The Future of Magazines presented at KTH

    Published Dec 07, 2012

    Smarter advertising, social recommendations and innovative distribution. That were some of the ideas presented by the students at the Future of Media course final presentation on December 7.

  • How to communicate effectively

    Published Nov 28, 2012

    How do you communicate effectively? What is the difference between advocating and inquiring? And why is it good to be aware of the filters you use in your dialogue with others? Those were some of the issues that were dealt with in the second doctoral student seminar, held on 14 November at the School of Computer Science and Communications (CSC).

  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology at the Gamex Fair

    Published Nov 05, 2012

    The Gamex fair, showing the last in computer games, was open between 1 and 4 November at Kistamässan.

  • Optimize your doctoral student period

    Published Oct 04, 2012

    Responsibility, team work, planning, (f)initiative and having fun were some of the main topics presented by Niki Kringos during the breakfast seminar organized on 3 October at the School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC).

  • Jan Gulliksen to be keynote speaker at internetdagarna

    Published Sep 28, 2012

    Jan Gulliksen, professor and dean at the School of Computer Science and Communication, will be giving the keynote speech on 24 October at internetdagarna (eng. “internet days”), a conference organized in Stockholm on 22-24 October 2012.

  • White-Hat Hackers Hit Helsinki

    Published Sep 26, 2012

    They call themselves hackers, but they’re not out to break into your bank account or steal government secrets. Instead, programmers meeting at the third Green Hackathon in Helsinki, Finland, are looking at ways to make data more “transparent” for use in sustainability and environmental protection.

  • CESC enters third contract period with two new partners

    Published Sep 25, 2012

    Centre for Sustainable Communications (CESC) enters a third contract period, lasting until June 2015. In addition, Sweden’s second largest food retailer Coop and Swedish IT research institute, the Interactive Institute, join CESC as partners.