Arvutiteaduse tippkeskus / Centre of Excellence in Computer Science, EXCS

EXCS (Estonian eXcellence in Computer Science) was an Estonian centre of excellence in research (CoE) project 2008-2015 funded by the European Regional Development Fund within the Measure for the development of CoEs of the Operational programme for the development of the economic environment of the Estonian system for the implementation of the EU Structural Funds 2007-2013.

EXCS was based on the HTM institutional resarch grant projects of Tarmo Uustalu (Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn Univ. of Technology), Peeter Laud (Cybernetica AS), Jaak Vilo, Marlon Dumas, Dominique Unruh and Heiki-Jaan Kaalep (University of Tartu).

It built on the achievements and experience of CDC (Centre for Dependable Computing), the Estonian CoE in computer science and engineering 2002-2007.

NEWS:

• From 2016, we will continue in a new national CoE called EXCITE. The new centre is based on the former EXCS and CEBE plus the robotics groups of Maarja Kruusmaa and Alvo Aabloo and the control theory group of Maris Tõnso. The language technology groups of Einar Meister and Heiki-Jaan Kaalep will continue in a different CoE, the Centre of Estonian Studies.


• This project finished 31 August 2015. Thanks to all who contributed.
• 28 August 2015, Abel Armas and Fredrik Milani defended their UT PhD theses in software engineering.
• 26 August 2015, Priit Adler defended his UT PhD thesis in bioinformatics.
• 24-28 August 2015, two software engineering conferences, ICSSP 2015 and BIR 2015, took place in Tallinn resp. Tartu in a back-to-back arrangement.
• 16-20 August 2015, we ran the ESSCaSS 2015 summmer school at Nelijärve.
• 18 June 2015 Kairit Sirts defended her TUT PhD thesis.
• 17 June 2015 Hedi Peterson defended her UT PhD thesis.
• 18-21 May 2015 the TYPES 2015 conference took place in Tallinn.
• 24 April 2015 Sten Ilmjärv defended his UT PhD thesis.
• Liina Kamm defended her UT PhD thesis 9 March 2015.
• The 20th EWSCS winter school took place 1-6 March 2015 with an excellent set of lecturers.
• Congratulations to Dan Bogdanov and Ahto Buldas for state decorations from the President of Estonia.
• The winter 2015 theory days happened 6-8 February at Rogosi.

• Objectives
• Funding

• Institutions and people
• Job openings

• Research activities, by working groups (incl. publication lists):
ISI Web of Science indexing is a poor indicator of CS research quality. Nevertheless, our funders, HTM and Archimedes, measure our performance based on this data alone.
• Programming languages and systems (PLS)
• Formal methods (FM)
• Information security and cryptology (Sec)
• Software engineering (SE)
• Scientific and engineering computing (Comp)
• Bioinformatics (BI)
• Human language technology (LT)
• European projects
• Events
• Estonian Computer Science Theory Days

• Organization
• Contact

• Promotional materials
• EXCS in the press
• Populaarne arvutiteadus / Popular computer science

• Useful links: Publishing in CS
• Useful links: Important Estonian policy documents
• Useful links: Other Estonian CoEs 2008-2015

Public parts of the proposal

• Description of work (main part)
• Overviews of the activities of the participating themes 2006-2007
• Publications by members of the consortium 2003-2007

Consortium private area (password-protected)