DANISH UNIVERSITIES JOIN FORCES ON IT RESEARCH

The centre is to develop computer scientific and mathematic models which will increase the stability in complex software systems, writes comon.dk.

The University of Aalborg, the Technical University of Denmark and the IT University in Copenhagen have now joined forces to establish a joint IT research centre MT-LAB. The new centre has received DKK 25 million in support from the Villum Kann Rasmussen Fund. The target is to develop computer scientific and mathematic models that will increase the stability in complex software systems.

“The research is to be original and innovative and to have a high international level. We would like the fund’s support to make a difference so that it will promote innovative research groups which need and can exploit significant support means. The centre is to carry out basic research but with the target of developing methods that will make complex computer systems safe, stable and resource-saving so that they can be used on a broad front,” says Lars Erik Kann Rasmussen who is chairman of the board of the fund.

MT-LAB will be concerned with long-term basic research at elite level that often loses out in the Danish IT research which is more focused on solving concrete problems. “I am quite confident that within a few years we will be able to look back on this grant to discover that it was visionary and made a great difference. This centre will smooth the path for a number of efforts within the information technology’s use in society. We therefore look forward very much to a productive and constructive cooperation with our partners,” says pro-rector at DTU Knut Conradsen.

The three universities are usually competing for the attraction of grants, researchers and students, however this week’s launching of the joint research centre bodes reconciliation and more cooperation.