TU Wien Informatics

2020

Dec 2020

  • Dec 17, 2020 Open Position, Research, Focus CE We are looking for candidates for a postdoc position in Cyber-Physical Systems.
  • Dec 17, 2020 Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus CE, Focus VC+HCT Selma Šabanović (Indiana University Bloomington) discusses how we can design robots to fit the needs and values of potential users.
  • Dec 15, 2020 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT In our next lecture, Julian Nida-Rümelin will develop the main features of what he calls Digital Humanism.
  • Dec 10, 2020 Open Position, Research, Focus VC+HCT We are looking for candidates for a postdoc position in Visual Analytics.
  • Dec 9, 2020 News, ERC, Women in Informatics, Excellence, Focus L+C, Focus ISE Laura receives €2 million to research on Automated Reasoning with Theories and Induction for Software Technology.
  • Dec 2, 2020 Epilog, News, Women in Informatics, Faculty, Excellence, Students We honored our most excellent students for their achievements and bestowed them their awards in an online ceremony.
  • Dec 1, 2020 Epilog, Event, Women in Informatics, Faculty, Excellence Once again this semester, we honor our most excellent graduates for their outstanding achievements—and invite you to be virtually part of the award ceremony.

Nov 2020

Oct 2020

  • Oct 29, 2020 People, News, Women in Informatics, Excellence, Focus VC+HCT In the field of visualization, the induction into the Vis Academy is the highest and most prestigious honor.
  • Oct 29, 2020 Open Position, Research, Focus VC+HCT We are looking for candidates for a postdoc position in Visual Analytics.
  • Oct 29, 2020 Public Lecture, Event, Public Outreach, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT Neha Kumar and Naveena Karusala discuss citational justice in our new public lecture series on Critical Perspectives on Technology.
  • Oct 22, 2020 Open Position, Study Services We are looking for candidates for an administrative staff position in Study Services.
  • Oct 22, 2020 Open Position, Research, Focus VC+HCT We are looking for candidates for a predoc position in Computer Graphics.
  • Oct 22, 2020 Award, News, Faculty, Excellence, Students Despite obstacles due to the corona crisis, our faculty’s lecturers maintain excellent teaching and were honored for their special commitment.
  • Oct 20, 2020 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT Join us online for the next lecture in our series on Digital Humanism—this time with Elissa M. Redmiles from Microsoft Research.
  • Oct 15, 2020 Research, News, Innovation, AI, Focus CE, Focus L+C, Focus AI+DS AI becomes more efficient and reliable if it is more closely oriented to biological models: New approaches in AI research prove themselves in experiments.
  • Oct 15, 2020 Public Lecture, Event, Public Outreach, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT Join us online for our new public lecture series on Critical Perspectives on Technology, starting with Roos Hopman (Amsterdam).
  • Oct 12, 2020 People, News, Faculty, Excellence, Focus L+C Manuel Sorge joined our Algorithms and Complexity group as the first fellow of the prestigious Humboldt Foundation.
  • Oct 12, 2020 Event, Public Outreach, Education Outreach, Focus AI+DS Joining the EU Code Week from October 12 to 16, we will host the Week for Good Artificial Intelligence for Austrian school classes. [Registration closed.]
  • Oct 8, 2020 People, News, Excellence, Focus VC+HCT At the most recent IFIP General Assembly, Geraldine was honored for her outstanding professional standing and expertise.
  • Oct 8, 2020 Open Position, Research, DC SecInt, Doctoral The doctoral college Secure and Intelligent Human-Centric Digital Technologies is looking for ten PhD candidates.
  • Oct 8, 2020 Open Position, Research, Focus CE We are looking for candidates for two predoc positions in Cyber-Physical Systems and Parallel Computing.
  • Oct 8, 2020 Research, News, Innovation, Focus CySec, Focus CE On September 15, the joint venture “TÜV AUSTRIA #safeseclab, Research Lab for Safety and Security in Industry” was established at TU Wien.
  • Oct 8, 2020 News, Innovation, Excellence, Focus VC+HCT The READ project implements a virtual research environment and contributes to the preservation of European heritage.
  • Oct 6, 2020 News, Excellence, Students, Focus L+C, Focus ISE, Focus VC+HCT Our students from the Algorithms and Complexity group won four prizes at the 27th Annual Graph Drawing Contest in Vancouver.
  • Oct 6, 2020 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT Join us online for the next lecture in our series on Digital Humanism, where international experts discuss digital sovereignty.
  • Oct 5, 2020 Studies, Event, Students Our new online event where we answer your questions about our master programs, extended study opportunities, and other issues we can help you with.
  • Oct 4, 2020 People, Award, Faculty, Excellence, Focus ISE Our honorary professor received the prestigious biannual award for her contribution to the advancement of science and research.
  • Oct 2, 2020 People, Award, News, Women in Informatics, Excellence, Focus CE The City of Vienna honors Laura Nenzi for her outstanding achievements in Cyber-Physical Systems.
  • Oct 1, 2020 Open Position, Research, Focus AI+DS We are looking for candidates for a predoc position in Machine Learning.
  • Oct 1, 2020 Studies, Event Am 1. Oktober 2020 findet der Beginners‘ Day statt. Sie erhalten alle wichtigen Informationen über die Bachelorstudien Informatik und Wirtschaftsinformatik.

Sep 2020

  • Sep 30, 2020 People, Arrival, News, Faculty, Focus ISE After research activities in Bamberg, Sydney, Mexico, Pretoria and Albi, Dominik joined us as Assistant Professor for Business Systems Engineering.
  • Sep 30, 2020 Doctoral, Guest Professor, Doctoral School, Focus VC+HCT Three renowned experts in their fields, professors Tedre, van der Torre, and Stork, will teach as visiting professors in the coming winter term.
  • Sep 24, 2020 Open Position, Research, Focus VC+HCT We are looking for candidates for a postdoc and three predoc positions in Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology.
  • Sep 22, 2020 Digital Humanism, Event, Public Outreach, Social Responsibility, Focus AI+DS, Focus VC+HCT Join us online for the next lecture in our series on Digital Humanism, held by Harvard’s Barbara J. Grosz.
  • Sep 21, 2020 Alumni, News, Entrepreneurship, Women in Informatics, Excellence, Focus CySec, Focus ISE With her software company C2RO, our alumna Soodeh is one of Canada’s leading female entrepreneurs.
  • Sep 21, 2020 Conference, Event, Christian Doppler Labor, VCLA, Focus L+C, Focus AI+DS Join our online conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research.
  • Sep 19, 2020 People, News, Honorary Commendation, Faculty, Focus L+C, Focus AI+DS Commuting between Oxford and Vienna, Georg remains faithful to his old alma mater and our faculty.
  • Sep 17, 2020 Open Position, Research, Students, Focus ISE, Focus AI+DS We are looking for candidates for three predoc positions and a student staff position in Information Systems Engineering.
  • Sep 16, 2020 News, WWTF, Excellence, Focus L+C, Focus AI+DS, Focus VC+HCT Seven out of nine successful project proposals in the ICT 2019 call come from TU Wien Informatics researchers.
  • Sep 14, 2020 People, Obituary, Focus CE It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Gerhard-Helge Schildt, professor emeritus, who passed away on September 4.
  • Sep 11, 2020 Workshop, Security & Privacy, Focus CySec International experts will discuss security issues caused by the rising demand for automated contact tracing solutions.
  • Sep 8, 2020 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, Event, Social Responsibility, Focus AI+DS, Focus VC+HCT Join our DIGHUM lecture series with Stuart Russell from UC Berkeley presenting his views on this crucial issue.
  • Sep 7, 2020 People, Arrival, News, Faculty, Focus AI+DS, Focus VC+HCT Starting in September, Florian Michahelles serves as Professor for Ubiquitous Computing at our research unit Multidisciplinary Design and User Research.
  • Sep 2, 2020 Studies In diesem Übungskurs werden die Inhalte des Online-Kurses „Programmieren mit Processing“ anhand von Übungsbeispielen gefestigt und auftretende Fragen geklärt.
  • Sep 1, 2020 Studies, Students Als Vorbereitung auf das Studium und als Ausgleich der unterschiedlichen Voraussetzungen bieten wir den Prolog an.

Aug 2020

  • Aug 31, 2020 Conference, Event, Focus CE, Focus L+C, Focus AI+DS Vienna is hosting QONFEST, a joint congress of the most important international scientific conferences and workshops on “Verifying Automatic Smart Systems”.
  • Aug 19, 2020 Studies, Excellence, Students Want to expand your expert horizon? Then join one of our international master programs, spend time abroad, and earn two diplomas.
  • Aug 13, 2020 News, Social Responsibility, Focus ISE Simulating future spreading scenarios or taking care of data protection: Implementing a secure data infrastructure is the key.
  • Aug 10, 2020 Studies, Focus CySec, Students, Focus L+C, Focus ISE You can now expand your knowledge in this important field within the master program Software Engineering and Internet Computing.
  • Aug 3, 2020 #5qw, People, Women in Informatics, Students, Focus VC+HCT Because of a not very promising maths test at school, Glenda was advised not to specialize in science. Now she is researching on Human-Robot Interaction.

Jul 2020

Jun 2020

  • Jun 30, 2020 People, Arrival, News, Faculty, Focus ISE After research activities in Switzerland and the United States, we welcome Jürgen back to his alma mater.
  • Jun 30, 2020 Research, Event, Public Outreach, Focus ISE, Focus AI+DS, Focus VC+HCT We invite you to a webinar to learn about the latest developments in this fast-growing research area.
  • Jun 24, 2020 Epilog, News, Graduation, Excellence Once more, we honored our most excellent graduates for their outstanding achievements—and you can virtually be part of it.
  • Jun 24, 2020 Epilog, Event, Graduation, Excellence, Students Once again, we honor our most excellent graduates for their achievements—and you can be part of it virtually.
  • Jun 18, 2020 Grant, People, Research, News, FWF, Excellence, Focus L+C, Focus AI+DS FWF will provide €1.2m for his project to build a bridge between complexity theory and artificial intelligence.
  • Jun 16, 2020 #5qw, People, Women in Informatics, Excellence, Focus AI+DS Despite her disappointing experience with her first Informatics course at school, Katinka got curious to learn more about computers and coding.
  • Jun 10, 2020 The Long Read, People, Excellence, Focus CE Indelibly linked with TU Wien, Heinz Zemanek’s intellectual and personal heritage is a beacon of excellence—and wit—in our history.
  • Jun 9, 2020 Digital Humanism, Public Lecture, News, Social Responsibility, Focus VC+HCT Following workshops and the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism, we invite you to our online DIGHUM lectures, where we discuss different aspects of this topic.

May 2020

  • May 24, 2020 News, Security & Privacy, Innovation, Focus CySec In their breakthrough work, a team at the research unit Security & Privacy developed sound static analysis for Ethereum smart contracts.
  • May 18, 2020 Digital Humanism, Workshop, News, WWTF, Social Responsibility, Focus CySec, Focus VC+HCT Renowned experts met in our online workshop on May 14th—St. Corona’s day of all days—and discussed the digital transformation of society.
  • May 14, 2020 Digital Humanism, Workshop, Event, WWTF, Social Responsibility, Focus CySec, Focus VC+HCT Following a workshop and the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism, we invite you to our online workshop highlighting the digital transformation of society.
  • May 12, 2020 People, Award, News, AI, Excellence, Focus CE, Focus AI+DS Shafique is ranked among the top ten researchers in the field of Chip Technology between the years 2009 and 2019.
  • May 7, 2020 News, Security & Privacy, Social Responsibility, Focus CySec Clara Schneidewind, from the Security and Privacy research unit, explains the challenges of programming a contact tracing app.

Apr 2020

Mar 2020

  • Mar 30, 2020 News, Education Outreach, Social Responsibility, Focus ISE The project “Head in the Clouds: Digital Learning to Overcome School Failure” provides Educational Resources for Roma children.
  • Mar 23, 2020 News, Social Responsibility, Focus ISE The model calculations of Niki Popper predicted what now turns out to be effective: The more we reduce our social contacts, the slower the pandemic spreads.
  • Mar 16, 2020 Studies, Faculty, Students To contribute as best as possible to reduce the further spread of a SARS CoV-2 infection, we take decisive action. [Updated 30 March]
  • Mar 11, 2020 Admission, Public Outreach, Students Alle wichtigen Infos zum Aufnahmeverfahren für ein Bachelorstudium in Informatik oder Wirtschaftsinformatik an der TU Wien.
  • Mar 11, 2020 #5qw, People, Women in Informatics, Excellence Tina was awarded the Siemens Award for Excellence in 2019. She continues her bachelor degree in Medical Informatics, and wants to create innovative tools.
  • Mar 9, 2020 People, Arrival, News, Faculty, Focus AI+DS Starting from February 2020, Thomas Gärtner is setting up the new research unit Machine Learning. We visited him in his (still empty) office.*
  • Mar 4, 2020 Research, News, Rankings Despite increasing international competition in academia, we were able to hold our ground in QS’s latest ranking of the subject Computer Science.
  • Mar 4, 2020 Call for Applications, Open Position, Research, Focus CySec, Focus CE, Focus ISE In cooperation with TÜV Austria, the newly founded Safety and Security in Industry Research Lab is looking for four excellent candidates (Deadline: March 19).
  • Mar 4, 2020 People, Award, Women in Informatics, Excellence, Focus AI+DS, Focus VC+HCT On 4 March 2020, Katja Bühler was honored for her innovative work on biomedical image processing and her inspirational role for female students.
  • Mar 4, 2020 Studies, Event, First Steps, Students Wir starten das neue Erweiterungsstudium mit einem Event für alle Studierenden, Lehrenden und Interessierten.
  • Mar 4, 2020 Talk, Doctoral School, Focus L+C Erika Ábrahám (RWTH) gives a historical overview of this development, describes her own solver SMT-RAT, and discusses some applications and potentials.

Feb 2020

  • Feb 27, 2020 Studies, Admission, Education Outreach, Focus CE, Focus ISE Aus aktuellem Anlass und im Interesse der öffentlichen Gesundheit wird diese Veranstaltung nicht stattfinden.
  • Feb 26, 2020 Women in Informatics, Education Outreach, Focus VC+HCT Our workshop series “Tagebuch der Informatikerin” brought female computer scientists and practitioners to school classes across Austria.
  • Feb 26, 2020 Event, Public Outreach, Faculty, Focus CE Given the current developments, we have decided, with a heavy heart, to postpone our anniversary celebration until 2021.
  • Feb 19, 2020 Talk, Focus VC+HCT Lucas Fidon (KCL) talks about stationary velocity fields (SVFs) parameterized by divergence-conforming B-splines in the context of image registration.
  • Feb 17, 2020 Award, Excellence, Focus VC+HCT Katta received the prestigious ACM SIGCHI award for the research on technology experience and autistic children.
  • Feb 13, 2020 Call for Applications, VCLA, Students, Focus L+C Our VCLA calls for nominations of outstanding Master’s and Bachelor’s theses in the field of logic and computer science until March 25.
  • Feb 12, 2020 People, Award, Education Outreach, Focus L+C, Focus ISE Gerald Futschek was awarded a medal of honor at ETH Zürich for his services to teaching Informatics.

Jan 2020