﻿{"id":2603,"date":"2021-08-23T17:40:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T17:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2026-04-15T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:52:09","slug":"computer-science-department-has-moved-to-groska-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/2021\/08\/23\/computer-science-department-has-moved-to-groska-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science department has moved to Gr\u00f3ska building \/ H\u00cd n\u00e1msbraut \u00ed t\u00f6lvunarfr\u00e6\u00f0i fl\u00fdtt \u00ed Gr\u00f3sku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/PXL_20211110_133043125-670x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"503\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/PXL_20211110_133043125-670x503.jpg 670w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/PXL_20211110_133043125-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/PXL_20211110_133043125-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/PXL_20211110_133043125-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/PXL_20211110_133043125-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/PXL_20211110_133043125-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Computer Science department has moved to the new <a href=\"https:\/\/groska.is\/en\/home\/\">Gr\u00f3ska<\/a> building (between Askja building and the DeCode Genetics building -- probably, most people know it, because there is a gym on the ground floor and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccpgames.com\/\">CCP<\/a> is located there). The official visiting address is: Bjargargata 1, 102 Reykjavik. (<strong>Update 2025:<\/strong> As the street name Bjargargata is phonetically too similar  to the already existing street name Bjarkargata, it will sooner or later be renamed to Krist\u00ednargata.) Paid parking (camera will read your number plate) is available either at the university's Askja building (pay via the Parka app) or next to Gr\u00f3ska (pay via the Autopay app).<br \/>\nYou can find us also on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/node\/9171525844#map=19\/64.13608\/-21.94690\">OpenStreetMap<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/node\/9171525844#map=19\/64.13608\/-21.94690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/osm_groska-670x481.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"481\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/osm_groska-670x481.png 670w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/osm_groska-1024x735.png 1024w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/osm_groska-150x108.png 150w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/osm_groska-768x551.png 768w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/osm_groska.png 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To open the door, there is at the wall on the left a button to open the door. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5634\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5634\" src=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/door_opener-670x377.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/door_opener-670x377.jpg 670w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/door_opener-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/door_opener-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/door_opener-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/door_opener.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Door opener button<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Computer Science department is on the 3rd floor -- the same floor where CCP is located, however, we are at the southern-most wing of the building -- see the purple lines in the photo below. Inside the building, take either the stairway A or B -- stairway B is closest to us. Inside the building, you will also find signs: <em>T\u00f6lvunarfr\u00e6\u00f0i H\u00cd<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/09\/groska-670x392.jpg\" alt=\"Computer Science location within Gr\u00f3ska\" width=\"670\" height=\"392\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/09\/groska-670x392.jpg 670w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/09\/groska-1024x599.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/09\/groska-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/09\/groska-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/09\/groska-1536x899.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/09\/groska-2048x1199.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hi.is\/haskolinn\/groska\">floor plan<\/a> of the Computer Science department is below. The rooms most relevant to visitors are: the big teaching room <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ada_Lovelace\">Ada<\/a> is GR-321, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Turing\">Alan Turing<\/a> is honored by meeting room Alan in GR-310, and meeting room <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Babbage\">Charles<\/a>   has number GR-326.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hi.is\/haskolinn\/groska\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hi.is\/sites\/default\/files\/jonsig\/Myndir\/yfirlitsmynd_-_groska_3._haed.png\" alt=\"Floor plan of the Computer Science department\" width=\"670\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2624\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMy office is located in room 306.<\/em> The phone numbers are now routed via MS Teams that I am not going to install on my system: rather call me on my provided mobile phone number.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning, we were lacking furniture for visitors: I had to build our own chairs out of cardboard, e.g.: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Build-a-Cardboard-Stool\">https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Build-a-Cardboard-Stool<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hometalk.com\/diy\/decorate\/rooms\/diy-cardboard-stool-looks-like-wood-31556361?expand_all_questions=1\">https:\/\/www.hometalk.com\/diy\/decorate\/rooms\/diy-cardboard-stool-looks-like-wood-31556361?expand_all_questions=1<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the meantime, we got visitor chairs and some other visitor:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/parrot-538x670.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"670\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/parrot-538x670.jpg 538w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/parrot-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2021\/08\/parrot.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn addition to a bicycle storage room for employees, there are also EV chargers. (Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e1.is\">e1<\/a> is taking care of billing, but initially an RFID card from <a href=\"https:\/\/bilahledslan.is\/saekja-um-hledslulykil\/\">B\u00edlahle\u00f0slan<\/a> was needed -- they used the IT infrastructure from <a href=\"https:\/\/bilahledslan.everon.io\">Everon<\/a> and some of the involved registration emails are prone to be deleted by spam filters.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Computer Science department has moved to the new Gr\u00f3ska building (between Askja building and the DeCode Genetics building -- probably, most people know it, because there is a gym on the ground floor and CCP is located there). The official visiting address is: Bjargargata 1, 102 Reykjavik. (Update 2025: As the street name Bjargargata [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organisational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6191,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/6191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}