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Email: nielsj@ruc.dk
Phone:
- 4674 3702 (office)
- 3026 8056 (mobile)
Office: Pavillon 11
(Room P11.1-115)
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Introduction

I am associate professor at the computer science department at RUC. My main interests are technology theory, it security, and open source.

My main activity in recent years has been teaching at humtek. Humtek is RUCs new bachelor program in humanistic technology. I launched the program with collegues in 2008 and was the program's study board director in its first years.

Before coming to RUC in 2001, I was at Copenhagen Business School, and before that at Nokia. My ph.d. degree from 1992 is in computer science. Before I became a computer nerd I studied math and cultural sociology.

Research:
  • Open Source software development.

    The paper Developer autonomy in the FreeBSD open source project in Journal of Management and Governance (2007) discusses the decentralized development process in FreeBSD from a software engineering perspective and a knowledge creation perspective.

  • E-banking.

    The paper New technologies in e-banking: convenient and trustworthy ? in Gupta et al. (eds) Managing Information Assurance in Financial Services (2007) discusses user-authentication using special purpose tokens such as the ActivCard marketed by Danske Bank. The tokens easier to use in some respects, but the secrecy associated with the new hardware technologies may be a weakness, since it prohibits public analysis of their security.

  • Aircraft engineering and digitalized development.

    The paper The Boeing 777: No chainsaw massacres, please! in Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science, 10 (2), 2006 discusses life cycle models in aircraft engineering. Waterfall-type models prevail, but new approaches emerge as a byproduct of digitalized development, ie., CAD tools for digital (or 'virtual') pre-assembly.

  • Technology theory.

    The paper The Engineering of Software: Views from Technology Theory at ICIS 2005 discusses theories of technology proposed by Mary Shaw, Walter Vincenti, and Herbert Simon, with an offset in Parnas' statement that a software module is "a responsibility assignment rather than a subprogram".

  • Publication list.
Teaching:
  • Technological innovation (humtek)

    The course introduces students to technological innovation and the technical dimension of humtek. A new course taught in the fall 2012 for the first time.

    We are seeking teaching assistants to teach at three or five exercises associated with the course. See job description and the exercises (in Danish).

  • Project proposals for students:

    Humtek. Computer science and informatics.

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