Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)

Research at IDA covers a broad spectrum of topics from core computer science to applications. Our broad research base directly enriches our undergraduate and graduate education.

Photo: Karl Öfverström That includes theoretical computer science, programming environments, software engineering, real-time and embedded systems, artificial intelligence, information security, databases, information systems, computational linguistics, cognitive science, interaction and service design, autonomous systems and statistics.

Our broad research base directly enriches our undergraduate and graduate education. We give courses within most engineering programmes, several Master programmes, as well as the programmes for innovative programming, cognitive science and statistics.

The Department of Computer and Information Science was founded in 1983, but the roots go back to the early seventies. It is one of the largest departments for computer and information science in northern Europe, with 190 employees of which 68 are faculty members (PhDs), including 26 full professors. Approximately 70 postgraduate students are enrolled in the department's PhD programmes, including two thirds doctoral students holding salaried positions.

Divisions
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Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems

The main focus is intelligent artifacts. That is, man-made physical systems containing computational equipment and software that provide them with capabilities for receiving and comprehending sensory data, for reasoning, and for rational action.

Database and Information Techniques

The division Database and Information Techniques (ADIT) consists of two research groups, the Security and Networks Group and the Database and Web Information Systems group, each of which has its own research profile.

Human-Centered Systems

The research and teaching at the Division for Human-centered systems (HCS) at the Department of Computer and Information Science is highly interdisciplinary.

Software and Systems

The division deals with research and education in areas that covers basic research and projects in cooperation with industry. Nine professors and eight associate/assistant professors are involved in the research together with 25 graduate students.

The Division of Statistics and Machine Learning

We conduct research in the intersection of Statistics/Computer Science and host; the bachelor's programme Statistik och dataanalys, the international master's programme Statistics and Data Mining and the Machine Learning courses for engineers.

Administrative Services

Administrative Support and Management provides support to the institution's core business, management and employees.

News
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Learn the fundamentals of AI with Fredrik Heintz

The online course Elements of AI is intended both for those who want to learn more about what AI is and for those who want to take the first steps towards working with AI. Examiner for the course is Fredrik Heintz, a global leader in AI research.

Services designed for a new age

Security in the gig economy, a solution for long-term unemployment and the creativity of young people are areas in which students of design at LiU have developed new smart services. A 12-credit course in service design has just ended.

AI helping robots to make safe real-time decisions

If robots are to move among people in everyday life, they must be able to make decisions in real time, without human help. WASP doctoral student Olov Andersson describes in his thesis investigations into three different methods of learning.

Research
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The Climate Change Megagame

The Climate Change Megagame is a large-scale game with elements of board gaming, role playing and conflict gaming, and up to a hundred players can participate.

Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is an extension of the traditional Web in which interlinked data with well-described semantics has been added in a machine-processable form.