Siegfried Reich

Tagit

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

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

Dr. Theo Gumpelmayer …

… 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

2nd Symposium on Innovation in Salzburg

… an event, organised by ITG-Salzburg, with excellent speakers: very innovative, witty and inspiring. The full program is available at ITG-Salzburg.

The list of speakers includes

• Dr. Gertraud Leimüller, director of winnovation consulting
• Andreas Wildberger, FFG
• Andreas Spechtler, director of RealNetworks Salzburg
• Andreas Neuhofer MIM, head of marketing, Orderman
• Manfred Perterer, editor of Salzburger Nachrichten
• Walter Ebner, director of Reststofftechnik

Add comment October 11th, 2007

HMD – special issue on enterprise content management

To appear in December 2007: a special issue of the renowned magazine “HMD – Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik”, published by dpunkt on Enterprise content management (ECM).

Add comment September 13th, 2007

Exzellenzstrategie

… the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development has recently published its strategy towards excellence. To be downloaded at www.rat-fte.at.

Amongst others, the study argues for more excellence on the “top” and more quality with respect to the “breadth”. I.e., additional support for the best (institutes) and more average quality mostly through improvements in methods and processes for the average research institute.

This is somehow natural, as the strive towards the “3.0% target” requires more research and the same time this implies that some researchers need to be “extra-excellent” as otherwise the average would decrease (too much – avoiding a decrease in average will IMHO be hard to achieve).

Add comment September 13th, 2007

Nice visualisation of the Lisbon Strategy

Found in the June issue of RTD Info, see ec.europa.eu/research/rtdinfo/special_fp7/, page 6, Figure 3. The PDF can be downloaded here.

Add comment August 7th, 2007

Chinese Minister of Science

… I happened to hear this in a meeting last Friday: Chinas minister of science, Wan Gang, did his PhD at the University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, he worked at Audi and is still member of the board of directors of Thyssen Krupp. So he is a symbol of the close cooperation (in science) between Germany and China. Even more interestingly, he is the first minister that has not been a member of the communist party. See an article in Die Zeit, May 2007.

Add comment July 30th, 2007

Benchmarking of Austrian Universities

…. “Hochschulvergleich.at” offers various criteria and benchmarks for Austrian Universities. Quite interesting to see that Klagenfurt is doing pretty well in computer science and Linz is apparently only “medium”.

Add comment July 11th, 2007

Dr. Ingela Bruner vice chancelor of BOKU

… first woman in this position of a “Rektor”. Somewhat a milestone. See Der Standard.at (and many others).

She als is chairperson of the “Salzburger Wissenschaftsrat” (scientific advisory board).

Add comment July 4th, 2007