The 2nd edition of Oldenbourg’s 
has been published (it is German only).
Good overview, very much from an information systems’ perspective (and not so much from a computer science point of view. Anyway, well done …
Add comment February 23rd, 2009
ISO 9001:2000 is an international standard that has its origins in assessing suppliers for technical systems. Salzburg Research today successfully passed the audit (by TÜV Österreich).
I believe that the following three main points argue for a quality management system:
On the negative side there is – obviously – some overhead in necessary documentation and also, you may loose some degrees of freedom/individuality.
3 comments December 2nd, 2008
Beginning with sunset (16:39) and lasting until midnight, the researchers’ night 2008 took place, also at Salzburg Research. All over Austria some 240.000 people participated (Der Standard, Salzburger Nachrichten, Landeskorrespondenz).
At Salzburg Research we had an immense amount of people coming to see some applications of our research work (tagIT – a Geo-tagging application; tourguide – a project about pedestrian navigation; a traffic control centre; and finally, a project showing the use of sensors using SunSPOTs). The response was truly positive!
Most amazing to me was that even at 11:30pm we had people coming and wanting to see our demos. We do not expect such a huge interest (overall there were some 300+ unique visitors).
Pictures are available here:
1 comment November 9th, 2008
… a new Series by 
ORF Ö1 Radio from Monday to Thursday about living in a digital world. Very practical discussion, e.g. about storing/backing up your data (photos from the last holidays), about security, eSport, social networking, etc. …
Available as PodCast on http://oe1.orf.at/podcast/ – highly recommended. I am looking forward to podcasts on navigating, finding the closest (and cleanest) loo (e.g. www.mizpee.eu), rules for filtering e-mails (and how to practically deal with huge amounts of information in general), being locked in in your e-car, …
Add comment September 2nd, 2008
On March 11, 2005, the European Charter for Researchers has been signed. Three years later, doktorat.at has asked some people about their experiences and/if something has changed.
See http://doktorat.at/Neuigkeiten/3_Jahre_Charta_fuer_Forscher_-_Die_Bilanz.html
Add comment March 18th, 2008
… a special issue of HMD. See 
.
ECM can be seen as a technical infrastructure (tools, methods, …) for managing an organisation’s content assets.
2 comments December 28th, 2007
On the homepage it says that KAUST will offer “uncommon freedom for pursuit of scholarship” to lecturers.
Add comment November 19th, 2007
Tagit is a small dissemination project supported by Land Salzburg (Wissenschaftsressort). The innovation is in students/pupils themselves contributing to a virtual atlas on Salzburg. See tagit.salzburgresearch.at.
The first tag was set by Frau Landeshauptfrau.
Add comment November 14th, 2007
www.wikiwoods.org, a project about planting trees in order to raise awareness for the climate change (and do something about it). This was mentioned to me by Ingo Frost (see 
).
2 comments October 31st, 2007
… died at the age of 72. A visionary, “pontifex” (in the strict sense, i.e. someone bilding bridges) and friend.
Add comment October 22nd, 2007
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