Current Topics 2007

This term we will have two different streams focussing on software and internet technologies technologies. The software stream will have a special topic: The IBM Global Services Method (GSM) and its current evolution with ideas from TUP.. Bachelor students can select each stream separately, students for a diploma have to take both streams as "aktuelle Themen A".

The fifth IBM university day will be a half day workshop on data visualization and data mining with exercises. It will be called "data day". A theory session on both topics will prepare us for the exercises. See the announcement at the hdm hompage or here: IBM Data Day. Because of the workshop character with laptops and software provided by IBM a registration will be required for the exercises.

For the 3nd games day we have a lot of ideas:

The law and the internet - our first Law Day will cover lots of interesting topics in the grey areas of the modern digital world. Copyright issues, software patents, open source and its consequences, publishing and censorship, how to protect your forum etc. We expect lawyers, companies and judges to participate, together with representatives from Universities and politics.

Usability - still widely misunderstood and disregarded slowly turns into a core business requirement. We will leverage our Usability Professor Micheal Burmester and his connections to demonstrate the state of the art in usability research and development in different areas. Our students have done a number of interesting thesis works with ETAS, SONY and DaimlerChrysler in the area of usability. Usability and security is another hot topic: much of our future safety and security will rely on a better understanding of the trade-offs involved. But they are NOT in such opposition as is usually assumend.

Please watch this page closeley for changes in dates or topics. Most speakers work in the industry and sometimes need a change in schedule due to that fact.

You will find some required reading materials here. I will put most papers on transfer/kriha/aktuellethemen A short preview on the topics in the winter term: