Our blockchain research on Spektrum.de
The German magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft (PDF) covered our research on blockchain technologies (for instance, used in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin).
Paper about the link-based recommendations covered in Wikimedia Research Newsletter
The Wikimedia Research Newsletter, a monthly online overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, reports on our paper "Evaluating Link-based Recommendations for Wikipedia". We will present the paper at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Newark, NJ, US in the last week of June.
Improved math rendering in Wikipedia
Wikipedia is using a new approach for rendering mathematical formulae - as of May 31st. This approach was developed by our group member Moritz Schubotz. Bitmap images representing formulae, were replaced with a combination of MathML (the web standard for mathematics on the web), in addition to a fallback mechanism for browsers that do not support this web standard. This [...]
CitePlag on public radio
The national public radio broadcasters Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur covered our collaborative research on Plagiarism Prevention and Detection and our prototype system CitePlag.
Talk at the University of Copenhagen on March 4th
Bela Gipp will give a public talk on “New Approaches for Intellectual Property Protection” at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark on March 4, 2016, 16:00-17:00. The event is jointly organized by the Centre for Communication and Computing and the Royal School of Library and Information Science at the University of Copenhagen.
Media coverage of our CitePlag research
Several media outlets recently covered our research on Plagiarism Prevention and Detection and our prototype system CitePlag. Articles appeared in the national daily newspaper "Die Welt" and the regional daily newspaper "Schwäbische Zeitung". The national public radio broadcaster "Deutschlandradio" covered CitePlag on their website and in an expert interview.
Talk at Berlin Colloquium of Library Science on November 24th
Bela Gipp will give a talk on “New Methods to Protect Intellectual Property” at the Berlin Colloquium of Library Science on November 24, 2015.
Article about OriginStamp
The technology blog "The Eclectic Light Company" presents our Bitcoin-based trusted timestamping service OriginStamp. More Information B. Gipp, N. Meuschke, and A. Gernandt, “Decentralized Trusted Timestamping using the Crypto Currency Bitcoin”, in Proceedings of the iConference 2015, Newport Beach, California, 2015. PDF of publication
Article about CitePlag in uni’kon
An article about our plagiarism detection system CitePlag appeared in uni'kon #59. Click on the picture to see the article in high resolution.
New release of Docear
Docear Version 1.0 is out now. We’ve added several new features and made many improvements over the past few months. What is Docear? Docear is an open-source software for literature management that is tailored to the needs of students, researchers, and academics. Docear bundles multiple tools for academic literature and knowledge management into a single interface. The software combines a mind-mapping tool [...]
