Dec 2021

• Dissertation Awards for our former PhD students Jan Maly and Markus Hecher
  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.
• #5QW: Laura Kovacs
  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

• #5QW: Stefan Szeider
  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.
• In Memoriam Wilhelm Barth
  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

• Meet Frank Leymann, Our First Kurt Gödel Visiting Professor
  Oct 24, 2021 Quantum Computing, People, Interview Frank explains the potential and challenges of quantum computing and why he moved back to academia after many years in industry.
• TCI Distinguished Service Award 2021 for Schahram Dustdar
  Oct 21, 2021 People, Excellence The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on the Internet (TCI) honors Schahram Dustdar with its 2021 Distinguished Service Award.
• Niki Popper Receives 2021 Gerhart Bruckmann Prize
  Oct 20, 2021 People, Award, Excellence The Austrian Statistical Society (ÖSG) has awarded this year’s Gerhart Bruckmann Prize to Niki Popper.
• Schahram Dustdar Elected New President of the AAIA
  Oct 1, 2021 People, Excellence Computer Scientist Schahram Dustdar, professor at TU Wien, has been appointed President of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).

Sep 2021

• New Faculty: Renata Raidou
  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

• #5QW: Johannes Vass
  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.
• Best PhD Thesis Award for Davide Ceneda
  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

• City of Vienna Diploma Thesis Award for Marcel Moosbrugger
  May 20, 2021 People, Award, News, Excellence Marcel was awarded this prize for his outstanding diploma thesis on “Automating Termination Analysis of Probabilistic Programs”.

Jan 2021

• Meet Florian Michahelles, Our New Professor for Ubiquitous Computing
  Jan 25, 2021 People, Interview Being at home in the worlds of academia and industry, Florian explains why he deems it essential not to get stuck too early in your career.
• Thomas Eiter Named ACM Fellow
  Jan 13, 2021 People, News, Faculty, Excellence For his fundamental contributions to contemporary computing, the ACM Fellows program recognized Thomas Eiter among the top 1% of ACM members.