past events

The topics: latest research on who "the" gamer in Germany really is and what he or she plays. And what it does to them (:-). Game development as a part of computer science. Content creation for games, performance design patterns for speed and the psychology and technology behind the "uncanny valley". Finally, a demonstration of a current large scale game project.

This Web Day covers topics in security, user tracking, search engine optimization and finally asynchronous I/O and performance. You will get rare insights into leading edge technologies and business strategies and meet some of the leading industry experts in those areas.

I am hosting another BWtest talk at HdM. This time Andreas Bartsch of eXept will talk about successful planning and execution of test. The program can be found here. Like always the talk is free of charge and open to the interested public. Please use this chance to further improve your knowledge on testing and improving the quality of software in a systematic way.

Test and Quality Management have become more and more important over the years and it should have also some major impact on a university curriculum in computer science and media. To better prepare students for software production in the industry experts from HdM and the testing community will present the current state of the art with respect to methodologies and philosophies. And they will do so using practical examples and tools to demonstrate how it is done.

After years of talk on killer games and other negative aspects it looks like the game industry is now slowly overcoming the negative image of computer games in germany. Topics like gamification raise the interest in game technologies and their application in real life. We will talk about economical, technical and game design aspects of modern games on mobile and other platforms.

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Everybody wants to provide some App for their business - but how do you turn this into a usefull strategy and how do you handle the technical development problems behind? The other side of the "App" is is more and more provided by the "cloud". And the cloud sees some dramatic changes, especially in the network areas due to its success. And finally: there is "art" in programming - but how does it relate to efficient and professional programming? Is there a combination possible? These are the topics of our 9th IBM Day.

Join us for the talks from Peter Kutschera, Peter Demharter and Thomas Wappler.

Worried about your energy costs in the future? About your mobility? Is your home in need of a re-build to cut energy costs? Do the new intelligent power meters threaten your security and privacy? Or are you interested in the possibility of a new energy paradigm based on alternative energies, smart grids (the new intelligent power grids) and electro-mobility?

No matter what your interests in energy questions really are: the 1st Energy Day at HdM offers you a chance to get first hand knowledge on a topic that will definitely touch us in the future - and not just physically...

The 9th Games Day shows the variety of economic and technical approaches behind computer games. Game physics, community management, the quality of virtual goods and a glance inside a successful game are topics for this popular event.

After the excellent talk from Christion Kaas on Scrum I am proud to present another top speaker on software development: Prof. Simon Wiest of HdM - author of the well-known book on continuous integration with Hudson - will give a presentation on CI during this BWTest event. Please use this chance to get an expert introduction to this important topic. There is always time to discuss thing in depth during the apero at the end of the event. And a big thanks goes to the people behind BWTest for supporting those expert talks.

The web is constantly changing and extending. Time to take a closer look again on our 6th Web Day at HdM. The well known PHP core developer Pierre A. Joye will be talking about the evolution of PHP and the web. Kai Jäger - Master alumnus of our computer science and media master program will present the exciting features of HTML5. Tommy Fankhauser and Volker Tietz from CSM are going to demonstrate their "fakebook" application, designed to test scalability and performance of social net applications built with Rails. And Sven Pfleiderer will show the possibilities with the "realtime web" and its architectural challenges.

Amazon, Paypal and others blocking Wikileaks - some supporters of the cloud vision might get second thoughts after those headlines. What is a clever way to combine enterprise architectures and clouds based on the next generation Internet? Will we all get static IP addresses for each and everything? Will all bits be equal still?.

Join us for the talks from Peter Demharter and Güther Triep on Next Generation Internet and Enterprise Architectures.Live stream under events at HdM .

Lots of tools and technologies for web publishing and web applictions. Meet the developers and discuss the latest strategies etc.

Streetview and Ecash, Wikileaks and Downloads, Patents and Developing Countries. Cloud Computing and user data. A neutral Internet or a playground for large corporations? Who owns the user data on facebook?

Digital media raise lots of legal and political questions and we will try to shed some light on those at our 2nd Digital Rights Day at HdM. High profile speakers from law enforcement, Piratenpartei, law offices and academia will provide the knowledge needed.

For the seventh time game experts, developers and industry specialists will get together and talk about important developments within the computer games community. Technical topics like real-time computer graphics and game engine design are next to the question of ethics in computer games. Commercial aspects of "free games" will be handled as well and finally two representatives of MfG will talk about the future of the games industry in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

The games day is an ideal platform to meet gamers, developers and industry. And - hopefully - we will see the day where game development becomes a major topic within our university as well.

The mobile media faculty at HDM presents its first convention on mobile media coming Friday 9/4/2010. Topics are future data rates, mobile games and development platforms as well as talks on future business developments. Current project work will be demonstrated as well. The ideal platform to meet the new professors in the MMB faculty and discuss things with leading industry specialists. See the MI homepage for the agenda. The event is free and open to interested persons from industry and academia.

Google Technology User Group (GTUG) and Computer Science and Media faculity at HDM jointly present a "hackathon" on Chrome browser technologies and extensions.

The first GTUG meeting at HDM with the following technology sessions:

Our last day for this term at HDM offers several highlights: experts and developers of large scale social networks will join us to discuss things like performance and scalability and many others. Social networks are now among the largest IT infrastructures which were ever built by humans and you will get some insight into the way they are built, the way they work and get tested.

We will have Dennis Bemmann, founder of StudiVZ with us. Dr. Johannes Mainusch, Vice President of Operations at XING and Heiko Specht of Gomez. Members of my master class on system engineering will demonstrate some tools to measure a Mediawiki installation.

Technical experts from IBM will give an overview on current trends and developments in computer science and information technology. If you are thinking about using a compute cloud for your latest social network software or are plagued by documentation problems in multi-tier architectures: The experiences from current IT projects might help explain the advantages and problems of new developments. Visitors will get a realistic view on the use of IT-technology in complex business environments.

There is no end to the changes brought by web and internet to our society. For a while it looked like interaction would move completely into social networks and virtual worlds. Now it looks like a host of new social instruments are being created in the real world - of course with heavy backing by Web2.0 driven collaboration software. Meet bibcamps, breedcamps etc., discuss the current state of blogging and its political relevance or see visionary business ideas like publishing pipelines or methods for identity in the web. Like the Web Days before this one will include both technical and social topics and there will be ample opportunity to discuss the future of the web and the internet. And there is lots to talk about like pressure from social networks on members, attempts to regulate the internet by governments or providers and so on.

Learn how large-scale Massively-Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) work, how games get developed and how game technology is successfully used in research and the industry. Enjoy game demonstrations and competitions and discussions with gamers and game developers.

BW-Test, a non-profit organization working on quality improvement in software development has invited Karl Klink, former head of the VSE operating system development at IBM and well known quality and test specialist. From his vast experience in building complex software systems he is also aware of the necessary social and organizational skills to turn testing into a core discipline of software development. Karl Klink is also a lecturer at the computer science and media faculty at HDM.

HDM Stuttgart is hosting the second Linux Day. External speakers from the Mozilla Foundation, the Open Source Region Stuttgart as well as students and staff of the computer science and media faculty at HDM talk about open routers with Linux, open groupware and new Web technologies and standards. Get back control over your data, software and hardware!

Thanks to the efforts of Bernard Clark, IBM University Relations Program Ambassador to HDM, another IBM Day will take place in December at HDM. Representatives from IBM Global Business Services will present current work and strategies. The Computer Science and Media faculty at HDM welcomes the opportunity for industry specialists, students and accademia to learn about the many faces of modern information technology - presented by world class specialists who are involved in large scale international projects.

The computer games industry is growing like never before. The development of computer games and extensions has become a billion dollar business. If you want to get an overview of the latest developments, the technologies and strategies behind, then the GamesDay is your event. Companies will demonstrate game development and products and you can get your hands dirty in workshops.

The topics covered include artificial intelligence, simulation of business processes, building extensions to well-known games, the development of mobile games and game engines and many more.

On our third web day we have a focus on the latest development technologies on the web. We will show data mining technologies, usability approaches and especially various client facing technologies. Microsoft will present Silverlight and Adobe will do the same with Flex and Air. Last but not least deployement and maintenance of web apps will be discussed. Colleagues from the faculty for audio-visual technology will present a collaborative 3D site based on Adobe Air.

Lidl and Co. - is security making our life better or worse? Who wins, who loses? And how do we deal with risk in general. If you want to learn more about the psychology, sociology and technology of risk and security, this is your day. An excellent panel of speakers will take you on a tour around all aspects of security and risk. From the underground economy and abuse of systems to the dangers of total control, mixed with concepts and tools for anonymity or safer e-commerce. And at the beginning we will take a view on the history and social evolution of risk and its assessment.

There is a clear pressure on the software industry towards better quality software. Testing is becoming a core competence for developers too who need to learn a test-driven software production process. And architects need to understand what applications have to provide to make testing easier. Model-driven development and testing are core technologies here.

Meet industry specialists and learn about test methodologies, procedures and real world tools to test web-based and other software.

Learn more about using Linux on mobile systems, for high-availability applications or for the building of secure systems. Meet Linux afficionados or simply interested users and discuss the future of this extremely successful project. And meet the new KDE4.0 desktop environment and celebrate with us its release at our release party (starting at 18.00 at our S-bar).

And use our blog at linux-day.de . You can find there also the map of the KDE release parties all over the world.

The web is an incredible source of information - if it can be tapped. Google is doing it rather successfully. But how can you tap into this well? Machine learning is getting really important in the context of collaborative sites on the web. How can you extract information from web and wikis? How do semantics and search work? How do you use meta-data as annotations to drive new and better GUIs? The answers:

Desing and content, not raw technology are key in our 4th games day. Learn how to create virtual worlds. See live game demonstrations and discuss current and future trends in gaming and game industry. Beginners welcome!

Our development day showed why agile people need agile methods and languages. There is a tight connection between agility and tools. Read on why I think we lost the agility and what can be done about it.

Our first developers day has its focus on agile development. Read on why this is not a new fad but has always existed. Still, it is getting more popular nowadays, perhaps due to the ever increasing weight of .NET and J2EE, Java and C++ etc. Learn alternative ways to program fast, agile solutions and have fun doing so. But perhaps you are a manager? Learn how agile methods might save your project. You don't have to be an expert developer to profit from this day.

Our second security day at HDM has a focus on application security. Web applications firewalls, strong authentication, mainframe security and penetration testing help developers create and run secure applications. The development process of secure applications is also presented. A live-hacking demonstration gives a clear of vulnerabilities. The management of vulnerabilities will also be discussed.

Application Architecture needs to drive application security internally, external security components like WAFs and the whole testing process. Read more about some ideas to leverage application models. Application security is going to be a core topic for our next Security Day. And read more about current security related work at HDM.

Does IT change the law? Does the law cover virtual worlds? Have we lost the war on civil rights? Read more on the results of our Digital Rights Day and get an idea what is coming up next.

the first digital rights day covers important topics from internet right, open source, patent right and last but not least civil rights. Not to forget the legal aspects of virtual worlds. Well known lawyers and members of the Chaos Computer Club will guarantee lively sessions. Kurt Jaeger as a representative of the "Freiheitsredner" and head of a local ISP will talk about the various aspects of freedom.

Christian Brabandt and Otto Görlich from IBM GBS will talk about on demand information and how it is created, how it works in large data-warehouses and the latest changes in technology and business.

A few words on the 10th BSI conference at Bonn-Bad Godesberg.

Just a few comments on our most successful games day ever.

There where quite some things to learn from our Games Day. E.g. how distributed the reality of games development already is, how audio and sound work in games, how to program the cell chip and finally how to organize a huge game project at HDM.

The second Games Day will put the focus on "positive" aspects of computer games, with the help of Dr. Reinhard-Hauck from PH Ludwigsburg.

Presentations will cover technology, arts and economics behind games development: cell chip internals, audio and sound in games, game economics and a large game project. Louis Natanson from our partner university Abertay will present studies in games development and creativity.

Just some reflections on our - very successful - first Security Day at HDM.

The CS&M faculty is pleased to announce the first Security Day at HDM.

Presentations will cover various aspects of current security research and development. Specialists from the industry as well as CS&M members will demonstrate platform security, infrastructure solutions, application security and last but not least current crypto applications. E.g. learn how to approach a security concept for mobile devices or how mobile DRM works.

This friday we will host our first collaboratively organized Web2.0 day with experts from the industry and HDM. The topics cover technical and social aspects of this new technology that promises "to bring the web back to the users".

Bernard Clark, senior consultant and architect with IBM GBS has organized our forth IBM University day at HDM. Several talks on technical and "soft-skill" issues create an interesting program: Peter Kutschera will present an example of process automation based on SOA principles. Roger Knorr will present possibilities around VOIP and collaboration tools and last but not least Wolfgang Berger will discuss the problems of large-scale offshore projects (cultural, technical).

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a a key topic in IT currently. Chances are that you are somehow affected by it in the near future. This seminar provided by IBM Global Business Services is an ideal place to learn about the key concepts and how to successfully implement a SOA strategy.

Karl Klink and friends will give us an introduction to software developement on mainframes. The talks cover virtualization, engineering and market theories.

Mainframes - besides their technical fascination and economic importance - are definitely an area with a huge demand for young specialists in the near future.

Today we got a nice introduction to computer linguistics as a future key technology by Stefan Klatt of the University of Stuttgart. Many thanks to him.

His talk made me think about a parallel architecture for information extraction to better mimic the way the brain might tackle this problem.

(diagram: S.Klatt)

Bernard Clark, senior consultant and architect with IBM GBS has organized our third IBM University day at HDM. Several talks on technical and "soft-skill" issues create an interesting program: strategy consulting, data center application architecture, work in international teams and last but not least the skills of an architect in large J2EE projects will be presented.

Our very first workshop on computer games with technical representatives from different game companies. We will talk about modelling, tools, massively multiplayer problems, game logics and physics etc. Demos of some games will be shown during the breaks.

Our IBM Global Services Method Workshop has always been very popular and successful. In its third installment it includes some very ambitious goals. Using the merger of two banks as an example Bernard Clark will demonstrate how a transformation to service-oriented architecture can be done. Governance will be a big topic of the workshop as well.

Things seem to get worse instead of better. Longer development cycles, permanent stability problems, performance issues and logic errors. In our workshop we will try to find some causes for those problems as well as possible solutions. We will especially track the dependencies between process, organization and architecture - something most methodologies seem to disregard completely. Guests and speakers from the industry will provide essential input. The workshop is free but registration via e-mail is requested.

Sense-making is a core human ability. It allows us to react on new events. Sense-making will also become a neccessary technical feature for machines if we want to really use the massive amount of information online.

The program of our "Current Topics" course is now available. Covered are new developments in media and content management, enterprise architectures and process modelling with its associated technologies of semantics, ontologies, and meta-modeling. A special focus is on model-driven development and its effects on quality and testing. Two major events will be included. One is the second IBM university day at HDM with a host of excellent speakers and the second a workshop on quality, testing and model-driven tools to improve the situation in software developments.

The IBM university day is also announced at the HDM Homepage . All talks and workshops are open to the interested public at no costs.

Peer-to-peer architecture provides interesting services like fully de-centralized auctions and advertisements. But what happens if you mix this exciting technology with an open service oriented architecture which is about to become the next big thing for automotive, homes and industry? The Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGI) can make good use of P2P as Markus Block and Ronald Kutschke will show. They are currently doing their thesis at the HDM and in the industry in the areas of JXTA and OSGI and are the authors of tradingcenter, an award winning platform for e-auctions.

The computer science and media faculty at HDM, together with Steinbeiss STZ Mobile Communication and Embedded Systems are presenting a workshop on mobile systems and applications, featuring WIMAX, bluetooth, wireless mesh-networks, future network organizations and mobile business etc. Well-known experts in these fields will present their current work. If you are interested in mobile and wireless themes this workshop is an ideal place to meet experts and peers.

Thanks to Bernard Clark and his colleagues from IBM Busincess Consulting Services we are able to present an excellent panel of speakers at the IBM university day at HDM. IBM consultants will report from top IT-projects in different business areas.