Information and communication technology (ICT) is the basis for our modern society. Without PCs, supercomputers, fibreoptic cables, wireless networks, microchips and the many other forms of ICT, both society and research would be very different to the reality in which we live today.
At DTU, we research into a wide range of subjects within ICT. We research and develop new methods for producing microchips, optical communication fibres, nanophotonics, and digital and analogue electronics, in radar systems, antennae, etc. Work is also being conducted in other areas such as communication networks, mobile phones, databases and information systems, neural networks, multimedia, etc.
Research areas within ICT benefit from close cooperation with other disciplines – e.g. in areas spanning applied mathematics, statistics and material research. On the other hand, DTU’s research environments within mathematics, traffic research, bioinformatics, biophysics, construction, nanotechnology, chemistry and chaos physics, etc. rely heavily on ICT – in the form of supercomputers, IT programmes, networks and calculation methods for processing the enormous amounts of data generated by researchers.