Journal of Universal Rejection
… haven’t tried to publish there, perhaps it is worthwhile giving it a try
In the store you get your own gear, see http://www.universalrejection.org/
Add comment October 12th, 2012
… haven’t tried to publish there, perhaps it is worthwhile giving it a try
In the store you get your own gear, see http://www.universalrejection.org/
Add comment October 12th, 2012

This week, the official opening of a high performance computing centre at the University of Linz took place. The machine is called Mach.
For many reasons, this is an interesting event.
The official press release for Mach is available here.
Add comment October 19th, 2011
There is a scientific argument – one might even say “dispute” – in the Information Systems Research Community (Wirtschaftsinformatik in German). The argumentation is driven by the fact that the European (mainly German and Scandinavian) tradition of Information Systems Research argue that IT-systems need to provide a benefit for the users. The American argument – mostly driven by American business schools – is geared more towards the scientifically based description of how IT-systems work and what properties they have (following a behaviouristic approach). One might say that this is targeted towards existing (historic) systems and not towards new, innovative solutions.Add comment November 5th, 2010
At ICWE 2010, Martin Gaedke organised a panel on “How to Successfully Teach Web Engineering?“. The panelists where Fabio Casati, Yogesh Deshpande and myself. See the following pictures of the panel:
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More photos are available at http://icwe2010.webengineering.org/Conference/photos.aspx.
After a short introduction, we mainly discussed the following two questions: (1) if you would have a chance to study “Web Engineering” today, where would you do that? (2) If you were in a position to hire Web Engineers, where would you require your students from and what profile would you expect?
My personal message I take home from this panel: perhaps we are trying to much too educate “miracle-students”. From my experience at Salzburg Research I know that Web Engineering, i.e., the systematic development of Web applications, is a truly interdisciplinary task. But it is not the people/researchers as single individuals that are of interdisciplinary nature, it is the teams that are interdisciplinary: so I guess we must not aim at establishing curricula that teach everything from Web technologies, via Web science, design, information architecture, etc. That will be too much for one (single) curriculum and also, it will be unfocused and there students would have a hard time to get a job. What we need is a set of complimentary curricula, e.g., technical engineers, information architects, etc.
Add comment August 8th, 2010
Together with Markus Lassnig (head of e-motion competence centre for ICT in the tourism- and leisure-industries) we edited an HMD special issue on eTourism.
„Experience Economy“ is a term to describe a phenomenon in our society, which describes that the experience itself is being made a product. Tourism is one of the branches that takes the role of the dream factory. And because tourism is information intensive it makes heavy use of information and communication technologies.
See http://hmd.dpunkt.de/270/ for further details.
Add comment December 21st, 2009
I happened to read two articles on research development
The first article argues that Austria has substantially intensified its research activities and has come from an innovation follower to the position of an innovation leader. The research quote was increased form 1,7 % (in 1997) to 2,63 % in 2008. The increase has been achieved by more spending from the public as well as from industry (fostered by tax incentives and programmes).
The second article argues in a similar fashion about Finland (albeit with a longer historical perspective).
The interesting thing to me is, that in a short period – we are only talking about 10+ years in both cases – a country can be reshaped concerning its FTI-policy. I think this is amazing, I would not have thought that this is possible in such short timeframes (even one might argue that for a sustainable impact including a change of culture this will take at least 25 years …).
Add comment November 2nd, 2008
(c) www.hq.nasa.gov
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Thomas Fichtel, a colleague and PhD student at Salzburg Research, pointed me to the following slides/PDFs by Nasa on Technology Readiness Levels. |
Add comment May 22nd, 2008
www.arnetminer.org is a great (not to say incredible) site/tool implementing a researchers’ social web, see e.g. arnetminer.org with Siegfried Reich. I am impressed by the quality of the findings, the number (and quality of links) of people I have published papers with. Well done guys!
BTW: I came across arnetminer while looking at www.yasni.de, a site that I was pointed to by my colleague Sandra Schaffert. It also includes my Amazon wish list which is less desirable …
And: both, artminer.org and yasni.de are technically highly professional Web 2.0 sites with an almost desktop application like appearance.
Add comment May 10th, 2008
We had a follow-up discussion with a truly interesting and unique organisation: Bauhaus Luftfahrt, an association serving as a centre for creativity and whose purpose is to be both visionary and application-driven (with a long-term perspective).
The founding members include the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology (STMWIVT), EADS, Liebherr-Aerospace, and MTU Aero Engines.
Add comment April 30th, 2008
Thomas Fichtel, researcher and PhD student at Salzburg Research, pointed me to an interesting site on technology readiness levels.
Add comment April 15th, 2008
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