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Georg Gottlob ACM Fellow

Georg Gottlob, definitely one of the best (the best?) Austrian computer scientists received the status of an ACM fellow. See http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3385212 (in German, Der Standard) and http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases-2007/fellows-2007.

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FYI: Yearly Technology Report

By law, the Austrian ministries have to publish yearly a status report on research, technology and innovation. I find it interesting that they cite a study on PhD development in Austria (Pechar et al. 2008). One of the great figures can be found on p. 88: reasons why students decide to pursue a PhD. Number is pure interest. I think this is excellent news!
The latest report can be found at http://www.bmwf.gv.at/uploads/tx_bmwfcontent/ftb_2008.pdf. Page 88 gives the following figure:

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