Interview: Blockchain technology research in “Die Welt” & “NDR Info”
Click here to open the online version of the interview in "Die Welt". Bela Gipp was also interviewed by NDR Info (audio download).
New DFG Project about math retrieval
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.)
Best Student Paper Award at the JCDL 2017
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” - [...]
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.
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.
Our blockchain research on Spektrum.de
The German magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft covered our research on blockchain technologies (for instance used in the crypto currency 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.
