Department of Computer and Information Science The Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Department of Computer andInformation Science

http://www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/su/idi-engelsk-7dec06.ppt

The Norwegian University ofScience and TechnologyNTNU

Faculty of Information Tecnology,Mathematics and Electrical Engineering

Dept. Computer and Information Science, NTNU 2

Organization

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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


People

• Faculty: 58Permanent, full time: 41Adjunct (20% positions): 7Temporary, full time: 10

• Staff: 27Engineers: 19Administrative: 8

• PhD students, post.docs: 89PhD-students: 72Post docs 17


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


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


“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)


Student volumes – engineering

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Sum

Students admitted 100 170 230 200 270 215 200 165 165 155 1870

Female students 5 50 70 50 50 45 40 30 20 10 370Male students 95 120 160 150 220 170 160 135 145 145 1500

Primary applicants 600 750 800 600 690 510 445 330 180 170Applicants totally 3000 2000 2300 1200 870 890

From 1999: Separate admission (80 per year) to communications technology


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


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


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


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


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)


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.


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


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, …


Contact information• Address:

Department of Computer and Information ScienceSem Sælands vei 7-9NO-7491 TrondheimNORWAY

• Phone/fax:– Phone: +47 7359 3440– Fax: +47 7359 4466

• Internet:– Web: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/– E-mail: [email protected]

http://www.idi.ntnu.no/



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Department of Computer and Information Science The Norwegian University of Science and Technology