Blockchain Innovation: Collaboration with the International Blockchain Competition

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 [...]

2022-03-28T16:32:05+02:00May 20th, 2017|

Research cooperation with Human Bios International AG on blockchain-based security technologies

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 [...]

2024-01-13T14:27:55+01:00March 7th, 2017|

Norman Meuschke represents ACM SIGIR at the 50th Turing Award Celebration

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” - [...]

2022-03-28T16:32:05+02:00January 18th, 2017|

Talk at the department of computer science at the TUM Research Center Garching

Bela Gipp will give a talk on “Building Applications on the Blockchain of Crypto Currencies”, at the Department of Computer Science, TUM Forschungszentrum Garching on November 5th, 2016, at 11:00 in lecture hall #2. Everyone is welcome to attend.

2024-01-13T17:18:11+01:00October 1st, 2016|

Article about the research internship at NII in Tokyo

Felix Hamborg shared his experience of the research internship at National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo in the uni'kon magazine. In the article, he explains which opportunities the internship program offers, both in conducting research and exploring Japan. To read the full article, please click here.

2023-10-12T23:42:25+02:00September 1st, 2016|

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.

2022-03-28T16:32:06+02:00May 31st, 2016|

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 [...]

2024-01-13T17:18:55+01:00May 31st, 2016|

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.

2024-01-13T20:52:24+01:00February 11th, 2016|
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