Oct 2026

• #SaveTheDate: Vienna Gödel Lecture 2026 with Geoffrey Hinton
  Oct 23, 2026 Vienna Gödel Lecture, Public Lecture, Research, Public Outreach, AI On October 23, we have the great honor of welcoming Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton as this year’s speaker for the Vienna Gödel Lecture!

Aug 2026

• ICDAR 2026
  Aug 30, 2026 Conference Join us from August 30 to September 4 for the 20th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition at TU Wien!

Jul 2026

• Henderik Proper elected ER Fellow 2026!
  Jul 7, 2026 Award, Faculty, Excellence We’re delighted to announce that Henderik Proper was elected as an ER Fellow 2026!
• Austrian eSports Festival 2026
  Jul 6, 2026 Event, Computer Graphics, Students Join us on July 11–12 at the Austrian eSports Festival 2026, held at the Austria Center Vienna!
• UNIKATE Ideas Competition
  Jul 6, 2026 Call for Applications The call for UNIKATE 2027 is now open! Students are invited to submit their ideas for inclusive technologies and help shape a more accessible future.
• ACM Europe Digital Humanism Summer School 2026
  Jul 6, 2026 Digital Humanism, Research, Summer School Join us for the 5th ACM Europe Digital Humanism Summer School: Democracy in the Digital Age.
• European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence 2026
  Jul 6, 2026 Research, Summer School, Machine Learning, AI Join us from July 6-10 at TU Wien for ESSAI, the fourth European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence 2026!
• Best Paper Award at CAiSE 2026!
  Jul 3, 2026 Conference, Award, Excellence We’re excited to announce that the paper “Shortcut or Understanding? Diagnosing LLM Type Prediction in Conceptual Models” received a Best Paper Award at CAiSE!
• Distinguished Paper Award at ACM PODS!
  Jul 3, 2026 Conference, Award, Excellence We’re excited to announce that the paper “FPT Parameterisations of Fractional and Generalised Hypertree Width” received a Distinguished Paper Award at ACM PODS!

Jun 2026

• Dean about planned Budget Cuts: “No Future for Austria”
  Jun 30, 2026 #unisretten, #zukunftsichern “Such Budget Policy Is Reckless”: Gerti Kappel, Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, comments on the government’s planned budget cuts for Universities.
• Maria Christakis Receives ERC Proof of Concept Grant
  Jun 30, 2026 Grant, Award, Women in Informatics, Excellence We are thrilled to announce that Maria Christakis has received an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for her project CIRCUZZ!
• Temporary Hiring Freeze Amid Uncertainty Over Funding
  Jun 29, 2026 #unisretten, #zukunftsichern TU Wien Introduces Temporary Hiring Freeze for Global Budget-Funded Positions Amid Uncertainty Over 2028–2030 Funding
• ACM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation
  Jun 24, 2026 Conference Join us from June 24-26 for the 40th ACM SIGSIM International Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation at TU Wien!
• Digital Humanism Conference 2026
  Jun 24, 2026 Digital Humanism, Conference, Digital Transformation This conference brings together experts to discuss technology, human values, and democratic principles. Challenging the digital, empowering the human.
• S+T+ARTS Exhibition
  Jun 23, 2026 International Outreach, Students Join us until July 4 at Galerie Rauminhalt for the S+T+ARTS Exhibition: “Translating Clouds, Grounds and Flows”!
• Bildung im Zeitalter der KI
  Jun 23, 2026 Digital Humanism, eduLAB, Education Outreach Join us on June 23 for a Pre-Conference session of dighum 2026 on education in times of AI!
• Healthcare: How Simulation, Data Science, and AI can Point the Way Forward
  Jun 23, 2026 Digital Humanism, Workshop, Conference Join us on June 23 for the workshop “The Overburdened Healthcare System: How Simulation, Data Science, and AI Can Point the Way Forward”!
• #5QW: Tatjana Chavdarova
  Jun 16, 2026 #5qw, People, Faculty “System-level behavior is shaped by strategic interaction, not just individual intelligence.”
• Yuri Gurevich: Assisted Algorithms
  Jun 16, 2026 Public Lecture, Logic and Algorithms Join us on June 16 for the Guest Lecture “Assisted Algorithms” by Yuri Gurevich!
• Ing-Chao Lin: Fault-Tolerant Energy-Efficient RRAM-based Computing
  Jun 16, 2026 Public Lecture, Lecture, Guest Professor, Doctoral School Join us on June 16, when Guest Professor Ing-Chao Lin will hold a Lecture on Fault-Tolerant Energy-Efficient RRAM-based Computing!
• Andreas Gerstlauer: System-Level Design of Accelerator-Rich Architectures
  Jun 16, 2026 Public Lecture, Lecture, Guest Professor, Doctoral School Join us on June 16, when Guest Professor Andreas Gerstlauer will hold a Lecture on System-Level Design of Heterogeneous, Accelerator-Rich System Architectures!
• #README: Digital Girls Hackathon 2026
  Jun 15, 2026 Hackathon, eduLAB, Education Outreach On 10–11 June, more than 50 girls, together with eduLAB mentors and researchers, came together for the Digital Girls Hackathon 2026!
• #README: Austrian Computer Science Day 2026
  Jun 12, 2026 Report, Faculty On June 1, we hosted the annual Austrian Computer Science Day under the motto “Computer Science in Modern Times: A sign of the times.”
• #README: 27th RoboRacer Autonomous Racing Competition
  Jun 11, 2026 Conference, Event Thrilling races, vivid discussions, and a bunch of exciting developments for the future of autonomous driving - that was the 27th Autonomous Racing Competition!
• Jobs: Prae-Doc, Post-Doc, Student Staff and Expert in Science Communications
  Jun 11, 2026 Open Position, Students We’re looking for candidates in Security and Privacy, Software Engineeringa, Data Science and Communications.
• Job: Expert in Public Relations and Science Communication
  Jun 11, 2026 Open Position TU Wien Informatics is hiring a temporary member (“Karenzvertretung”) of our Communications team.
• Johannes Buchmann: Numbers, Quantum Computers & the Question of Responsibility
  Jun 10, 2026 Public Lecture, Lecture, Guest Professor, Doctoral School Join us on June 10, when Guest Professor Johannes Buchmann will hold a Lecture on Numbers, Quantum Computers, and the Question of Responsibility!
• Amy Zhang: Generative Models in RL and Behavioral Foundation Models
  Jun 9, 2026 Public Lecture, Machine Learning Join us on June 9 for the Guest Lecture “Generative Models in Reinforcement Learning and Behavioral Foundation Models” by Amy Zhang!
• iCAIML Industry Seminar
  Jun 3, 2026 Event, CAIML, AI, Doctoral School Join us on June 3 for the iCAIML Doctoral College’s Industry Seminar, with expert talks on the intersection of academia and industry!
• Katalin Fazekas wins Amazon Research Award!
  Jun 1, 2026 Award, Research, Faculty, Excellence We’re delighted to announce that Katalin Fazekas won a highly competitive Amazon Research Award in the 2025 fall cycle!