Computer Science Department


Studying Computer Science in English

Welcome to the web site of the VUB Computer Science department. On the site for future students you will find everything about studying complete Master programs in Computer Science in English at VUB University, and the site about the Erasmus program will tell you all about shorter visits. Alternatively, visit our site for Dutch speakers.

News

Best Paper Award

At the 12th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2011) in Sydney (Australia) the best paper award went to William Van Woensel, Elien Paret and Olga De Troyer of the WISE research lab together with Sven Casteleyn of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) for their paper "Transparent Mobile Querying of online RDF sources using Semantic Indexing and Caching".

Best Paper Award for WISE

The members of the research group WISE of the department of Computer Science Elien Paret, William Van Woensel, Beat Signer and Olga De Troyer, together with Sven Casteleyn of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), have won the best paper award at the 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS) in Canada with their article "Efficient Querying of Distributed RDF Sources in Mobile Settings based on a Source Index Model".

Ph.D. Jorge Vallejos

On Thursday 7 July 2011 Jorge Vallejos successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled "Context Dependency and Group Behaviour in Ambient-oriented Programming" (abstract). Prof. Dr. Theo D'Hondt was the promotor of this dissertation.

Ph.D. Yann-Michaël De Hauwere

On Tuesday 28 June 2011 Yann-Michaël De Hauwere successfully defended his Ph.D dissertation titled "Sparse Interactions in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning" (abstract). Prof. Dr. Ann Nowé was the promotor of this dissertation.

Ph.D. Michael Spranger

On Friday 20 May 2011 Michael Spranger successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled "The Evolution of Grounded Spatial Language" (abstract). Prof. Dr. Luc Steels was the promotor of this dissertation.

Three out of three for Extreme Blue

Three students of our program Master of Science in Applied Science and Engineering: Computer Science were selected for IBM's extreme blue project. There were 120 applications for this project. Out of these, 26 students were invited for a final day of selections. In the end, twelve candidates were selected. Among these were three computer science students, all three of them out of our program. Congratulations to these students: Gomez Marulanda, Thiago Dantas de Mendonca, and Wolney De Mello Neto !

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