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Entries from April 2009

Gute Lehre(r) an der TU Kaiserslautern

April 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Schön, wenn man so gute Kollegen wie Achim Ebert am DFKI bzw. am Fachbereich Informatik der TU KL hat:

Am 28. 4. 2009 wird der Fachbereich Informatik zum vierten Mal in Folge auf dem Tag der Lehre ausgezeichnet. Mit J.-Prof. Ebert erhält zum vierten Mal ein Professor des Fachbereichs einen persönlichen Lehrpreis des Landes.

[From FB-Informatik (TU-KL): Newsletter FB Informatik, 1/2009]

Categories: Deutsch · Teaching

Ricoh and Java Developer Challenge

April 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Hungary (Zoltan Szabo & Balazs Lajer from University of Pannonia) won, by a hair ahead of Germany. Congratulations to all the students and professors involved. [From Ricoh and Java Developer Challenge - Octavian Tanase's Weblog]

Congratulations to my students, Markus Weber and Volker Hudlet, who had participated in this year’s Ricoh & Java Developer challenge. After having won the national competition, being awarded second place in the international competition is quite an accomplishment.

Markus and Volker developed a prototypical recommender system based on context-aware service discovery using case-based reasoning methods for a Ricoh multi-functional product (MFP). They successfully combined the open-source tool myCBR and the jColibri framework. They were co-supervised by my colleague Heiko Maus and me.

Categories: English · Research

Deadline surfing: Did I do it right?

April 3, 2009 · 1 Comment

The deadline for IST Call 4 of the seventh framework programme just closed and I am not sure if I made the ride unscathed or not. Many of us “knowledge workers” will surely recognise themselves in Leo’s post on deadline surfing.

Categories: English · Miscellaneous