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Summer Semester 2020 Update!!! WE ARE STARTING!!!

2020-04-07
Summer Semester 2020 Update!!! WE ARE STARTING!!!
We will start teaching this summer semester on 14.04.2020 with a mixture of live online lectures, online Q&A sessions, online tutorials, downloadable learning materials and homework for self-education. Please register with OPAL and join the online course on time via Zoom as stated in your email inbox. As a bonus, we will introduce some new learning/teaching concepts to provide a new and advanced learning experience - We are sure you will love this! Let us tackle this crisis together and grow through it together!!
 
You can find current information in the educational section of our VSR website.

We received a Best Paper award at the e-Society 2020 conference

2020-04-06
We received a Best Paper award at the e-Society 2020 conference

We are very happy and proud to announce, that our research on "Improving Fake Product Detection using AI-based Technology" got an Outstanding Paper award at the 18th International Conference on e-Society 2020 . Congratulations to our VSR members Eduard Daoud, Dang Vu Nguyen Hai, Hung Nguyen and Martin Gaedke!

 

VSR Educational courses postponed

2020-03-16
VSR Educational courses postponed

Based on the Second Open letter from the President regarding the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), all educational courses from our VSR professorship are currently postponed.

In particular, this applies to the final pitches of the Planspiel Web Engineering and the regular start of the summer semester 2020 courses. Other activities such as staff member meetings, oral exams or thesis defenses can currently take place on an individual basis.

We will keep you up-to-date via our website and other communication channels.

In the meantime, you can find further information on the news site of the rectorat of Chemnitz University of Technology

The First VSR PhD in 2020

2020-02-27
The First VSR PhD in 2020

Our external PhD student Christian Hochmuth successfully defended his PhD thesis "Strategic planning of technical capacity in complex production systems: mathematical optimization of graphical models with the software AURELIE" on 27 February 2020.

We congratulate Christian to his achievement and wish him all the best for his future.

ESF Young Researcher Group DYNAMIK started project

2020-02-11
ESF Young Researcher Group DYNAMIK started project

Our VSR professorship is part of the newly established ESF-funded Young Researcher Group DYNAMIK

Within the next three years, we will do excellent research on a Dynamic navigation and orientation system for physically
impaired people in complex buildings, together with the Professorships for Circuit and System Design, Media Computer Science and Media Psychology.

VSR exams in winter semester 2019/2020

2020-01-27
VSR exams in winter semester 2019/2020

We wish all our students excellent results in the up-coming exam period.

The VSR exams will take place as Open-Book exams in written form on the following dates:

  • Design of Distributed Systems: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:30 - 13:30 in room 2/N115
  • XML: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:00 - 17:00 in room 1/316 (+1/305)
  • Software Service Engineering: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 14:00 - 16:00 PM in room 2/N114 + 2/N115
  • Current Trends in Web Engineering: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:00 - 13:00 in room 1/316 (+1/305)

Please check the Prüfungsplan in advance for any changes.

Collaborative Research Center Hybrid Societies established

2020-01-02
Collaborative Research Center Hybrid Societies established

In January 2020, the CRC 1410 Hybrid Societies started its activities at Chemnitz University of Technology.

Within this Collaborative Research Center, our VSR professorship leads the activities on a sustainable, cross-domamin information infrastructure together with the professorship for private law and intellectual property of Prof. Dr. Gesmann-Nuissl.

Happy New Year!

2020-01-01
Happy New Year!

We wish all our students, customers, partners and colleagues a happy, healthy, prosperous and pleasant new year 2020. We continue to work hard on our mission of creating talents, developing the future of collaboration, and making the world a little smarter. With you already part of it.

XML and CTWE lecture on 17 December 2019 postponed

2019-12-15
XML and CTWE lecture on 17 December 2019 postponed

The lectures XML and Current Trends in Web Engineering (CTWE) will not take place on 17 December 2019 and are postponed to the first week of January 2020.

The lectures SSE and EVS/DDS will be conducted regularly.

VSR at ICBDR 2019 in Paris

2019-11-24
VSR at ICBDR 2019 in Paris

Our vsr staff member André Langer participated for our VSR professorship in the ACM 3rd International Conference on BigData Research (ICBDR 2019) at the École Internationale des Sciences du Traitement de l'Information (EISTI) in November 2019 in Cergy, France. 

We presented our latest research results on Multi-party computation in Cloud-based environments as a joint venture project with the SAP SE Innovation Center Network in Dresden.

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