Disruptive Technology and the Christensen book (did not want to do this repeatedly but had to learn otherwise) http://www.slideshare.net/ProfessorMathur/book-summary-of-the-innovators-dilemma-by-clayton-christensen. This is mandadorty reading, because the concept of disruptive technology is so fundamental to this course.

We did a thing on Bitcoins last summer: how do they work? And some bits on fiat-money. http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/ money laundering: http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/2013/images/11/25/silk-road-paper.pdf good video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx9zgZCMqXE&feature=youtu.be. This gave me the idea to take a closer look at darknets in general.

Http2.0 - what's new in this protocol. How is it going to affect us? http://www.heise.de/netze/artikel/Wie-HTTP-2-0-das-Surfen-beschleunigt-2164146.html http://heise.de/-2552760

I am close to thirty years old - and I don't understand the Internet anymore. Current developments in a strange land... http://www.welt.de/kultur/article137869675/Warum-ich-das-Internet-nicht-mehr-verstehe.html

Welcome to the matrix - the internet of things is about to become real - or?. http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Willkommen-in-der-Matrix-2551024.html

Scalability, performance and costs of running large scale internet sites: does it make sense to move away from Amazons cloud? What is feedback control and how does Netflix handle it? The slides from Uwe Friedrichsen, codecentric.de. highscalability.com How Github concquered everybody (network effects etc.) http://www.wired.com/2015/03/github-conquered-google-microsoft-everyone-else/ and of course: microservices: http://www.indix.com/blog/microservices-what-are-they and an exciting distributed search architecture with dist. consensus and anycast DNS: http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/9/the-architecture-of-algolias-distributed-search-network.html

Marketing in internet times: 30 Billion ads per day! http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/9/applovin-marketing-to-mobile-consumers-worldwide-by-processi.html

Love in the Internet Age: the user experience with online dating algorithms and sites.http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2015-02/tinder-online-dating-hacks-erfolg

Cyborgs - from smartphone to wearable to implants: Internet driven enhancements to humanity. Let's develop a vision on google glasses, embedded sensors and actors and a new definition of where your body ends...http://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/unter-die-haut-1.18485958 http://www.futuremag.de/interview/mensch-und-maschine-schon-heute-verschmolzen-interview-mit-stefan

Privacy - a concept left only for the rich? Internet driven services like uber are revolutionizing society and breaking old legal and political settings. Lannier puts up a radical concept of ownership of your data and how to get re-embursed by internet sites. http://www.fr-online.de/digital/sharing-economy--privatheit-gibt-es-nur-noch-fuer-reiche-,1472406,29482580.html

Net Neutrality and attacks on the internet http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Klartext-1965046.html Irrtümer in Sachen Netzneutralität http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/digital/netzneutralitaet-etno-itu-1.17231939 http://www.heise.de/thema/Netzneutralit%C3%A4t Netzpolitik «Eine Verfassung für das Internet»http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/international/auslandnachrichten/brasilien-kreiert-eine-internet-verfassung-1.18272165

The End of the Internet: Hannes Grassegger , Das Ende des Internets Staaten steigen aus dem Web aus http://www.heise.de/netze/meldung/Internet-Society-warnt-vor-neuen-Internet-Regeln-1664289.html Leaks, Wikileaks, Türkei etc.

Decentralized solutions - no longer viable? Soller paper, http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/MediaGoblin-GNU-Projekt-fuer-dezentrales-Media-Sharing-2132308.html diaspora, distributed search, mail, news etc.

Crowds and Crowd-Funding http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Meilenstein-fuer-Crowdfunding-Plattform-Kickstarter-Insgesamt-eine-Milliarde-Dollar-zugesagt-2131171.html

Getting rid of information: Snapchat etc. http://www.heise.de/tp/news/Weg-mit-den-Bytes-2121769.html

Creating your own android: Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/neither-microsoft-nokia-nor-anyone-else-should-fork-android-its-unforkable/

The new digital age: Eric Schmitt et.al. on the new world. http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/eric-schmidt-kritik-des-buchs-the-new-digital-age-a-896503.html Reputation, Identity,

Darknets and Anonymity: http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39575/1.html

Router Attacks: http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Grossangriff-auf-Router-DNS-Einstellungen-manipuliert-2132674.html

Internet Resilience: ENISA Study

Bandwidth problems in Germany

Neuroscience and Computer Science: I think, therefore I heal: the weird science of neurofeedback theverge.com http://m.heise.de/tr/artikel/Schrittmacher-fuer-das-Gedaechtnis-2092798.html?from-classic=1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/wearable-neurocam-records-scenes-when-it-detects-user-interest http://www.kurzweilai.net/neuroscape-lab-visualizes-live-brain-functions-using-dramatic-images

Inhouse-Navigation, Apple I-Bacon, Android

Eli Pariser, the filter bubble (and perhaps the price bubble..)

The Master Switch - Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Tim Wu

Campact und Co.: Demokratie durchs Internet - ein Erfolgsmodell? https://www.campact.de/netzneutralitaet/appell/empfehlen/

Internet Payment: http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Kreativer-Zerstoerer-2127847.html

Mesh Networks, open WLAN www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Die-Ruechttp://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Die-Rueckeroberung-des-Internets-2127869.html?view=printkeroberung-des-Internets-2127869.html?view=print and http://www.heise.de/download/firechat-1194036.html

Dave Eggers, the circle: The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award.

25.3.2015, Special feature on streaming technologies and video conferences. Marc Walter will present his thesis work on a WebRTC based Video Conferencing System with Media Server. Patrick Bader will join us with an idea to use Kinect for better tracking of live events. And I will present some current and unfinished work on live input from smartphones and how to connect them to our streaming server. We will also discuss the future of university courses and the role streaming technologies are going to play.

10.4.2015, Language Day with a focus on current developments in various computer languages. Years ago it looked like there was no development in computer languages at all. We had c++ and java (c#) and what else would somebody need?. And then new languages popped up almost on a weekly base. Old technologies like the functional thinking got rediscovered and integrated into all kinds of languages (even Java!). Object orientation lost its top position and became a programming paradigm like many others. And now we see different paradigms being integrated in languages. Javascript turned into an extremely popular language and seems to revolutionize secure software with Secure Ecmascript and the concept of object capabilities. C# does an excellent integration of asynchronous calls through the concept of await/async. Java integrated collection pipelines and higher order functions. And GO seems to be an exciting concept altoghether. So, let's spend a Friday afternoon with a look on all those new features and developments.

8.5.2015, Data Protection Day. Organized by my colleague Prof. Dirk Heuzeroth and friends, this Day will have its focus on data privacy and protection.

12.6.2014, Games Day. I have no idea about the contents yet. Cloud gaming? New game play?

19.6.2015, 2nd Accessibility Day with Prof. Gottfried Zimmermann.

26.6.2015, Science Day, organized by Andy Stiegler.