TU Wien Informatics

20 Years

2023

Jul 2023

  • Jul 12, 2023 People, Excellence We are proud to present twelve outstanding students and alumni of TU Wien Informatics as part of TUW Under 30, 2023.

Jun 2023

  • Jun 12, 2023 Vienna Gödel Lecture, People, Research The number of stars in the Universe is 10²². The number of possible combinations of dams in the Amazon basin is 10¹⁰⁰⁺. We need AI.

May 2023

  • May 24, 2023 People, Research, Lecture, Teaching We welcomed four new professors in a joint inaugural lecture, shaping the future of research and education in informatics.
  • May 15, 2023 People, Award, Excellence Congratulations to Michael Wimmer for receiving this year’s Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award.
  • May 15, 2023 #5qw, People, Faculty Katja is unleashing the power of data. Our new Professor of Databases & AI tells us what data can do and why accuracy is the name of the game.
  • May 1, 2023 #5qw, People, Faculty Want to know what plumbing and models have in common? Henderik has the answers. The teaching enthusiast is our newest professor of business informatics.

Apr 2023

  • Apr 26, 2023 The Long Read, People Christiane Floyd made her path by walking. The software engineering pioneer and passionate hiker ventured many a trail – through forests, networks, mountains.
  • Apr 16, 2023 #5qw, People, Faculty Software is key. And Maria likes to find out what’s wrong with it. The ERC grant winner sets new standards for reliable software.

2022

Dec 2022

  • Dec 2, 2022 The Long Read, People Helmut Schauer loves Bob Dylan’s Jokerman, but is definitely a Javaman. On Dec 2nd, he received the Golden Dissertation Diploma – 50 years after his graduation.

Nov 2022

Aug 2022

Jul 2022

  • Jul 8, 2022 People, Excellence We are proud to present nine outstanding students and alumni of TU Wien Informatics as part of “TUW Under 30”.
  • Jul 8, 2022 #5qw, People, Faculty Math-enthusiast Marcel had a hard time deciding what to study. Lucky for us, he chose informatics and is on his way to an exceptional career.

May 2022

  • May 2, 2022 #5qw, People, Faculty Astrid tells us how robots led her to pioneer in a transdisciplinary research field – although at first, she only knew them from movies.

Mar 2022

  • Mar 2, 2022 People, Award, Excellence On 2 March 2022, Lara Spendier was honored with the seventh TU Women’s Award, which was for the second time awarded to an exceptional woman in IT.

Feb 2022

Jan 2022

2021

Dec 2021

  • Dec 14, 2021 People, Award, News, Excellence, Doctoral School Two former PhD students of Prof. Stefan Woltran, Markus Hecher and Jan Maly were recently honored for their excellent dissertations.
  • Dec 10, 2021 #5qw, People, Women in Informatics, Excellence Maths competitions braced Laura for the field she is now researching. She also explains why computer scientists are supposed to live in eternal happiness.

Nov 2021

  • Nov 22, 2021 #5qw, People, Faculty Although interested in computers in his teenage days, Stefan’s real entry point into Informatics was when reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.
  • Nov 9, 2021 People, Obituary It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Wilhelm Barth, professor emeritus, who passed away on October 31, 2021.

Oct 2021

Sep 2021

  • Sep 2, 2021 People, News, Faculty Renata is delighted to be back at TU Wien, where she did her Post-Doc. In her research, she tries to integrate Visual Analytics into clinical decision making.

Jun 2021

  • Jun 29, 2021 #5qw, People, Excellence Johannes noticed that despite the nerdy informatics image, you need to display social skills for communicating successfully in big software projects.
  • Jun 21, 2021 People, Excellence, Doctoral School The EuroVis Best PhD Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding dissertations in academic research over topics relevant to visualization.

May 2021

Jan 2021