Ben Livshits from Microsoft Research, a well-known profile within the area of secure software, acted as opponent at the PhD defence by John Wilander within the area of software security. The seminar was attended by a large audience from the industry including several LiU alumni.
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By relating complexity issues in constraint satisfaction problems to properties of graphs and their structure Tommy Färnqvist has in a recent PhD shown that a large class of applications e.g. in database search or AI do not have efficient solutions, thus not polynomially solvable. He has thereafter found a metric to relate problems that are approximation friendly.
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Anders Haraldsson, one of the early pioneers of computer science in Sweden, and an inspiration engine on teaching and learning for generations of computer scientists, was thanked in a touching show of support by students and colleagues at IDA on the occasion of his retirement.