Med den norske opprykksordningen hvor alle med professorkompetanse gis et personlig professorat, så er det ingen andre enn den vitenskapelig ansatte selv som står i veien for professortittelen. I denne artikkelen gjennomgås 12 suksesskriterier for å oppnå professorkompetanse: (1) Ta imot faglige utfordringer; (2) tenk publisering; (3) barn bør ta tid; (4) begrens forelesningsforberedelser; (5) ha ...

En ansatt i vitenskapelig stilling skal utføre minst tre forskjellige oppgaver: forskning, undervisning og formidling. I tillegg kommer administrative gjøremål. Oppgavene trekker på ulike ferdigheter som alle bør dokumenteres i en søknad på en vitenskapelig stilling. Dessverre er det kun et mindretall som utformer sine søknader slik at totalkompetansen anskueliggjøres. En god søknad skal være komplett, ...

Graphic Processing Units have during the recent years evolved into inexpensive high-performance many-core computing units. Earlier being accessible only by graphic APIs, new hardware architectures and programming tools have made it possible to program these devices using arbitrary data types and standard languages like C. This thesis investigates the development process and performance of image and ...

The ability to deliver computing as a metered service has made the cloud an attractive platform for deployment of applications. Using the cloud, enterprises experience a decrease in maintenance overhead, faster deployment, and that cloud elasticity can be exploited to meet fluctuating resource demands.

In recent years, social network providers has become one of the largest industries in the world. These networks created a new arena for sharing information over the Internet, and thus changed the way people interact with each other. Hundreds of millions of social network users are updating statuses and sending messages to each other every day. These interactions produce vast amounts of social data. ...

This report presents the results of the research conducted by Tor Kreutzer and Ø yvind Holmstad during the summer of 2011 at the University of Troms ø. The goal of the project was to gain practical experience with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology by exploring its properties through hands-on development of applications and services. To explore the applicability and limitations of NFC we ...

Locating content in existing video archives is both a time and bandwidth consuming process since users might have to download and manually watch large portions of superfluous videos. In this paper, we present two novel prototypes using an Internet based video composition and streaming system with a keyword-based search interface that collects, converts, analyses, indexes, and ranks video content. ...

In recent years the Web has come into its own as a social platform where health consumers are actively creating and consuming Web content. Moreover, as the Web matures, consumers are gaining access to personalized applications adapted to their health needs and interests. The creation of personalized Web applications relies on extracted information about the users and the content to personalize. The ...

The widespread use of digital cameras and mobile phones, along with a rapidly growth of image sharing, challenges current image retrieval techniques. It is difficult for image retrieval system to find the semantic meaning of images based on human’s subjectivity and the size of current image databases makes it difficult to organize and search images. This thesis shows that information retrieval ...

In biology the introduction next generation technology is increasing the amount of data generated rapidly. New sequencing machines are able to produce terabytes of genomic data in days and in later years the cost of storing data has become higher than to produce it. With enormous amounts of data arrives great opportunities, but also new challenges; how should biologists analyze and interpret the ...