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• Students from Software Engineering and Management win NASA Space Apps Challenge

  [13 May 2013] Nico Boh, Patrik Bäckström and James Omoya, students at the Software Engineering and Management bachelor's programme at University of Gothenburg, were appointed winners of NASA's Space Apps Challenge in Gothenburg last week. Their concept of "Greener Cities" will now be judged by an international jury.

• Instagram - more than self-portraits and pictures of food

  [18 Apr 2013] The photo-sharing application Instagram is used by millions of people around the world daily. In the media, the social media phenomenon is sometimes dismissed as trivial pastime. However, according to a fresh study at the University of Gothenburg, a lot of effort often goes into a picture before it is shared.

• Mahsa Mirtalebi is appointed "Global Swede" at the University

  [8 Apr 2013] The University of Gothenburg has appointed Mahsa Mirtalebi as the "Global Swede" of 2013.

• Gothenburg University Scientists to Develop Pedagogical Robots

  [8 Mar 2013] Can robots improve teaching in schools? This is something that Dr. Wolmet Barendregt, senior lecturer at the Department of Applied IT at the University of Gothenburg, will investigate together with researchers from four countries in the research project EMOTE, which is financed by European Union. Over the next three years, the researchers will work to develop, apply and evaluate whether robots with the ability to interpret and act on emotions can contribute to the learning of school children.

• Software students from Gothenburg won driverless-car-competition in Germany

  [6 Feb 2013] Students on the international programmes in Software Engineering ended up on first place in the junior version of Carolo Cup in Germany.

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