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” - [...]
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.
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.
The German magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft (PDF) covered our research on blockchain technologies (for instance, used in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin).
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.
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 [...]
The national public radio broadcasters Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur covered our collaborative research on Plagiarism Prevention and Detection and our prototype system CitePlag.
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.
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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.
