CSC – School of Computer
Science and Communication
CSC in brief – Facts and figures about CSC
CSC research and education
CSC is one of Sweden’s most advanced and successful
research and education institutions in Information
Technology.
CSC works with education and research at KTH Royal
Institute of Technology and at Stockholm University in:
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Computer Science,
Media Technology,
Human-Computer Interaction,
Speech Technology and Music Acoustics,
High Performance Computing and Visualization.
CSC – basic figures
• About 380 people work in this dynamic environment.
• About 100 graduate students.
• 1500 undergraduate students are enrolled in our
education programmes.
• About 6000 students participate in our about 300
courses each year, ranging from basic level to
research level.
CSC Departments
CSC
TCS – Theoretical
Computer Science
CB Computational
Biology
CVAP - Computer
Vision and Active
Perception
MID – Media
Technology and
Interaction Design
Speech, Music
and Hearing
PDC – Center for
High Performing
Computing
HPCViz - High
Performance
Computing and
Visualization
CSC Departments
more in-depth
CB – Computational Biology
The department of Computational Biology does
research in the fields of systems biology, computational
neuroscience, neurocomputing, computational
biomechanics, biological physics, theoretical biology,
genome evolution and gene regulation.
The department has been involved in planning the EU
Flagship project The Human Brain Project.
CVAP – Computer Vision & Active Perception
The department of Computer Vision and Active Perception
performs research in computer vision and robotics,
developing methods for analyzing images in the same
manner humans perceive and understand their
surroundings.
The research can be used to develop vision used for manmachine interaction.
TCS – Theoretical Computer Science
The mission of the Theoretical Computer Science group
is to carry the culture of theoretical computer science,
and to develop and disseminate new, interesting and
useful theory in computer science.
TCS is concerned with the foundations of efficient and
correct algorithms, and deals with the tractability of
computational problems. Applications include
computational biology, cryptography, natural language
tools, and complex technical systems.
Research has been conducted on for example electronic
voting systems.
MID – Media Technology and Interaction
Design
The MID group at CSC is an interdisciplinary research
group consisting of the two previous research groups
Media Technology and Graphical Production and
Human Computer Interaction.
The group has its roots in computer and behavioural
science, graphic technique and media technology, and
today has faculty that represents e.g. anthropology and
psychology, computer science and media technology,
interaction design, film and literature science, as well
as media and communication science.
TMH – Speech, Music and Hearing
• Music Acoustics Group
The research in the music acoustics group runs in
three main streams;
• instrument acoustics, especially strings;
• the science of music performance; and
• the acoustics of the human voice, in singing and for
medical applications.
While running in parallel for periods, they often merge
and interact. An experimental approach has long been
characteristic of the research.
TMH – Speech, Music and Hearing
• TMH Hearing Technology Group
The research of the hearing technology group aims to
improve hearing impaired persons ability to perceive
speech and other sounds and to understand what is
being said. The challenge lies in trying to apply the
fundamental knowledge of human hearing and
perception to "intelligent" electronic aids for changing
circumstances in everyday life.
PDC – Center for High Performance
Computing
PDC operates leading-edge, high-performance
computers on a national level. PDC offers easily
accessible computational resources that primarily cater
to the needs of Swedish academic research and
education. PDC also takes part in major international
projects to develop high-performance computing for
the future and stay a leading national resource in
parallel computing.
HPCViz – High Performance Computing
and Visualization
The HPCViz department is concerned with the
development of new concepts for improved usage of
high performance computer systems, including
modeling and simulation, as well as analysis and
synthesis of (typically) visual data.
Research Centres at KTH CSC
• CESC - Centre for Sustainable Communications
• CAS – Centrum för Autonoma System
• COT – Centrum för Opera och Teknik
• Green Leap
Education at CSC
What CSC can offer in terms of programs
Education programs
CSC gives two five-year programs in Swedish leading
to the degree Master of science of engineering:
• Computer science and engineering
• Media technology.
Research Areas at CSC
CSC
Computer
Science
Media
Technology and
Interaction
Design
Speech and
Music
Communication
Computer Science
Comprises:
• CVAP – Computational Vision and Active Perception
Laboratory
• CAS – Centre for Autonomous Systems
• CB – Computational Biology
• TCS – Theoretical Computer Science
• HPCViz – High Performance Computing and
Visualization
Conducts research within computer science on a broad
scale.
Media Technology & Interaction Design
• Originates in computer and behavioural science, as
well as graphic technology and media technology.
• The faculty represents for example anthropology and
psychology, computer science and media technology,
interaction design, film and literature science, as well
as media and communication sciences.
Speech and Music Communication
• Covers topics ranging from theoretical development
of speech production models, through phonetic
analyses to practical applications of speech
technology.
• Includes the Centre for Speech Technology (CTT).
• Research runs in three main streams:
- instrument acoustics, especially strings,
- the science of music performance,
- the acoustics of the human voice, in singing and for
medical applications.
Other active research centre cooperations
at KTH CSC
CSC is an SBI, Stockholm Brain Institute, partner,
concerning the calculation platform, and hosts the
Swedish Neuro Information Node within INCF.
• SBI - Stockholm Brain Institute
• INCF - International Neuroinformatics Coordinating
Facility
• SBC – Stockholm Bioinformatic Center