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Clear rules facilitate continued web interaction among general practitioners

[31 May 2010] Urban Carlén's doctoral thesis "A professional community goes online" explores how an online learning community works for a group of general practitioners.

Playful IT at student exhibition

[17 May 2010] A new version of Twister, technology as conversation enabler and dancing in public spaces were only a few of the ideas when interaction design students challenged the boundaries between the physical and the virtual, between entertainment and usefulness.

Software students discover their strengths

[17 May 2010] During a workshop students at the bachelor programme Software Engineering and Management discovered their strengths an learned how to use individual¿s strengths to optimize the team.

Interaction design students won first prize

[15 Mar 2010] Students from the master programme Interaction Design won the category Best Student Game during the Independent Games Festival in San Francisco.

Multilingual translation system receives 25 millions in EU funding

[7 Jan 2010] All citizens, regardless of native tongue, shall have the same access to knowledge on the Internet. The MOLTO project, coordinated by University of Gothenburg, receives more than 25 million SEK (2.375 million euro) in project support from the EU to create a reliable translation tool that covers a majority of the EU languages.

ERC grants 20 million SEK (1,9 million euro) to visionary basic research in mathematics

[4 Jan 2010] Professor Thierry Coquand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has been awarded a personal ERC Advanced Grant of more than 20 million SEK (1,9 million euro) for his research in foundation of mathematics. The ERC grant was established in 2008 and targets world-class European senior researchers.

Software Development Day at Lindholmen

[7 Oct 2009] The 6th Software Development Day will be held at Lindholmen on October 22, this year with the caption "Changing requirements on SW development".

Urban Future: A new centre will be formed in Gothenburg

[1 Oct 2009] Tomorrow's cities designed in Gothenburg. The Gothenburg region gets a substantial sum to Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg to build a world-leading centre for holistic development of sustainable communities.

Strategic research funding to "Sustainable Transports"

[17 Jun 2009] The area "Sustainable Transports" is suggested to get 46 million SEK a year from the Swedish Government research funding. The ICT area is strongly represented in the application.

New web site and new assignments for the IT University

[7 Apr 2009] IT University will from now on signify the network for research, education and collaboration within the ICT area, established by the vice-chancellor for University of Gothenburg, Pam Fredman and the President of Chalmers University of Technology, Karin Markides.

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