We are happy to announce that Dr. Tomas Foltynek of the Mendel University in Brno, Czechia, joined our research group for a 6-month research stay. Tomas is an expert for topics related to academic integrity and is especially interested in the application of text similarity analysis in the social sciences. He will strengthen our group's research on plagiarism detection. Click here to [...]
Bela Gipp gave a talk about the immutable research data trail at the 1st international Conference on Blockchain for Science, Research and Knowledge Creation held on 5-6 November in Berlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUNVXc_2uJc More information about the conference is available here.
eCoach, an abbreviation for Electronic Coding Assigments Checker, is a teaching innovation project initiated at the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Konstanz. In 2017, the Department of Computer and Information Science provided seed funding to the eCoach project. The goal was to create the eCoach system by extending the open source software Praktomat and to test the newly created [...]
An article about the Dashcam App in BTC-ECHO based on OriginStamp project. Read the article here. To learn more about the Dashcam-APP, you may want to read our paper that we’ve published in 2016: B. Gipp, J. Kosti, and C. Breitinger, “Securing Video Integrity Using Decentralized Trusted Timestamping on the Blockchain,” in Proceedings of the 10th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems [...]
Click here to open the online version of the interview in "Die Welt". Bela Gipp was also interviewed by NDR Info (audio download).
The DFG, Germany’s organization for research funding, has awarded our group a 3-year research grant for our project: “Methods and Tools to Advance the Retrieval of Mathematical Knowledge from Digital Libraries for Search-, Recommendation- and Assistance-Systems” (Click here for more information on the project.)
Felix Hamborg and Norman Meuschke received the Best Student Paper Award for their paper Matrix-based News Aggregation: Exploring different News Perspectives; at the A* ranked Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2017.
Bela Gipp will serve as the University partner for the world’s largest ‘Blockchain Competition’ organized by the Swiss investor group Lakeside Partners AG. The call for entries is now open. Organizers are looking forward to receiving many submissions describing innovative blockchain-based business ideas under the theme innovation for the InsurTech industry, #Blockchain4Insurance. As a jury member, Bela Gipp is tasked [...]
The Human Bios International AG is announcing a research cooperation with our group to explore the use of blockchain technology for security applications. In the scope of the cooperation, Human Bios is providing research stipends for up to four PhD positions within our group. The launch of the cooperation is being celebrated with a meet-and-greet event at the headquarters of Human Bios [...]
The Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) within the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has selected Norman Meuschke as one of ten students to represent SIGIR at the 50th ACM Turing Award Celebration in San Francisco, on June 23 - 24, 2017. The ACM Turing Award, established in 1966 and often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of computing” - [...]
