On the 17th of December, Huishi Yin defended her PhD on “Using a Kano-like Model to Facilitate Open Innovation in Requirements Engineering” which combines a well-known approach to enhance satisfaction of software users, the Kano model, with modern approaches to gather information from online data sources to facilitate open innovation in the context of software […]

Dietmar Pfahl, Professor of Software Engineering, co-authored the article “Synergies between Education, Training, and Research: How the Institute of Computer Science does Industry-Relevant Research in Software Engineering”. Doing industry-relevant research is the mission of the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tartu. This new publication in one of the top-notch software engineering journals […]

To strengthen and improve the key competencies in blockchain technology, our institute organized a BLISS workshop on November 9, which was attended by more than 65 participants from both the industry and the university. The aim of BLISS “Blockchain skills for ICT professionals” is to develop a blockchain course for ICT professionals, which helps to […]

This October the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, Garage48 and Startup Estonia organized a Cyber Security hackathon, which was attended by almost 100 developers, designers, experts, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts in order to create new cyber security solutions, for the benefit of humanity. Out of 17 pitched ideas 10 teams were formed. The winner […]

On 26 May 2019, the paper “What are Hybrid Development Methods Made of? An Evidence-based Characterization” won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP 2019) in Montreal, Canada. ICSSP is an A-category international conference co-located with the premier conference in the field of software engineering worldwide, […]

On 31st of May, the paper on Going Farther Together: The Impact of Social Capital on Sustained Participation in Open Source won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering.The conference is the premier conference in the field of software engineering world wide and they give out these […]

Digital games producer Edvin Aedma tells us how one presentation from Keith Devlin inspired him to take up teaching game development and how it affected UniTartuCS. Sometimes before 2012, Keith Devlin visited Institute of Computer Science at University of Tartu and gave a rather fascinating lecture about the synergy between teaching mathematics and videogames. I […]

Institute of Computer Science Professor of Engineering Dietmar Pfahl has co-authored a paper “Status Quo in Requirements Engineering: A Theory and a Global Family of Surveys”. This publication is an outcome of the NaPiRE (Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering) project. The objective of the NaPiRE project is to establish a valid foundation for a […]

Noored Koodi meeskond korraldas 16. veebruaril juba teise IT-alase võistluse, kus osales kokku üle 45 õpilase üle Eesti. Päeva jooksul said osalejad end proovile panna virtuaalreaalsuses, programmeerimiskeele Python tundmises, algoritmikas ja veebilehe loomisel. Üritusel külastati virtuaalreaalsuse laborit. Päev algas võistluse korraldaja Magnar Varese tervitussõnade ja projektijuhi Heilo Altini ning Magnari tutvustusega sellest, kuidas nad IT valdkonda […]