Siegfried Reich

40 years of Computer Science (“Informatik”) as a study course in Austria

April 24th, 2009

Today, in a big event at the University of Linz, 326 people celebrated the fact, that 40 years ago at the University of Linz the first study course in “Informatik” (computer science) was introduced.

Johann Eder from the Alpe Adria University in Klagenfurt presented one of two keynote talks. The theme was on the “Great Challenges of computer science”. He selected some studies, e.g. the U.K. study, the ISTAG-Challenges (a nice PPT can be found here) and others. He reflected these with Austrian’s strengths (see Austria’s ICT-strategy).

The open keynote was by Prof. Christiane Floyd.

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