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ID-tyveri-konferansen 2010 11.-12. oktober

ID-tyverikonferansen 2010 arrangeres 11. - 12. oktober på Thon Hotel Slottsparken, Oslo.

Konferansen er et samarbeid mellom Norsk Regnesentral (NR) og Norsk senter for informasjonssikring (NorSIS). Årets faglig oppdatering om ID-tyveri, ID-teknologi samt debatt rundt temaet er konferansens fokus.

Norsk Regnesentrals forskere bidrar med faglig innspill om personvernsøkende teknologi (PET) og brukervennlighet og problemer med e-inkludering i e-ID.

Les mer om konferansen, programmet og påmelding

Påmeldingsfrist 1. oktober 2010. Meld deg på og møt landets eksperter.

Relationship between footlength and height? NR at Forskningstorget i Oslo September 24 and 25

NR is represented at Forskningstorget i Oslo with the stand Er det en sammenheng mellom fotlengden og høyden din? Anthropometry is the study of the measurements of the human body. This is important when designing furniture, clothes and cars, but also in the field of forensics, e.g. for human identification.

At our stand we invite everybody to join us in exploring the relationship between footlength and height. There you can also learn about celebrities’ measurements, for instance our Minister of Education Kristin Halvorsen.

Read more about our stand (in Norwegian).

Forskningstorget i Oslo is part of the science festival Forskningsdagene, which the Research Council of Norway arranges for the 16th time since 1994.

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NR blog

Researchers at NR have established a new blog at blog.nr.no (in Norwegian). The title of the blog is Regn med oss, under which we will share parts of our research that might be interesting to a wider audience. To reach out to more people, some of the blog entries are published simultaneously at www.forskning.no/blog. Enjoy!

NR's annual report for 2009 is here

2009 has been another very good year for NR with exciting research results and a good financial result. The annual report shows some of our research results; the historical returns on structured investments products and how to standardize the user interface of computer programs. The financial result was 4,5 mill. NOK, which makes the owners fund above 50 mill. NOK.

Read the report (pdf)

New and valuable guidelines for inclusive ICT

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Norsk Regnesentral and Karde AS have jointly developed a design guide on how to make inclusive content and technical solutions for the Web.

As such, the design guide addresses a previously unmet demand of all who produce web content, such as journalists, editors, bloggers, homepage maintainers, etc. The guide is in particular meant as a means for developers and designers of technical solutions. The guidelines show in a hands-on manner how to develop and design electronic services which are accessible for individuals with a cognitive challenges. Examples for those are memory capability decline, reading and writing difficulties, and impairments concerning attention and orientation ability.

Various topics are considered, ranging from planning to development and testing. The guide comes with a number of concrete design recommendations, each including solutions and implementation examples. It can also be used for look-up purposes concerning universal design, cognition, legal matters, technical specifications, links and tools, and definitions and technical terms.

Design guide Cognitive Accessibility of Web Pages and Sites (In Norwegian)

NR award for best master thesis in mathematics and ICT

From left: Managing director Lars Holden and the NR's master prize winners 2009 at UoO: Evgenij Thorstensen and John Christian Ottem

NR has established an annual award for best master thesis in mathematics and ICT, one award at The University of Oslo (UoO) and one award at NTNU. The first awards were given for the period 2008/2009. The prize is NOK 25 000.

NR recruits most of our employees from UoO and NTNU and hopes that an award will strengthen the recruitment in these subjects and stimulate the students during their study.

The statutes for the awards has been finished together with the two departments at each of the two universities. All the members in the jury are recruited from the scientific staff at the universities and there are no NR representatives.

Rune Erlend Jensen for his thesis Techniquues and Tools for Optimizing Codes on Modern Architectures. A Low Level Approch and Eivind Fonn for his thesis Computing Metrics on Riemannian Shape Manifolds. Geometric shape analysis made practical shared the prize at NTNU.

The first NR prize for best master thesis in mathematics and ICT at University of Oslo was shared between Evgenij Thorstensen for his thesis Instance-Based Hyper-Tableaux for Coherent Logic and John Christian Ottem for his thesis Cox Rings of Projective Varieties.

Read the interview with the prize winnners from UoO. (In Norwegian)

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