On June 22, 2021, Austria's highest endowed science prizes were awarded: Prof. Dr. Monika Henzinger is the 2021 Wittgenstein Laureate. The Faculty of Computer Science extends its warmest congratulations. (Photo credit: FWF/Daniel Novotny)
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At this year's opening of the University of Vienna Photo Competition, Oliver Hödl presented his newly developed Lego MIDI piano and played a new piece composed from 16 samples by students of the LV Network-Based Communication Systems.
On 1 October, first-year students of a Master's programme in Computer Science (with the exception of Data Science) were welcomed by Vice Dean Renate Motschnig and Vice Programme Director Eduard Mehofer. During the orientation event, students were provided with facts and figures about the University...
This years‘ hackathon focuses on the topics environment and mobility. Students and early career researchers from all disciplines can apply, either as a team or as individuals. Programming skills are welcome, but are not essential for participation.
The Paper "Spectral Clustering of Attributed Multi-relational Graphs" by Ylli Sadikaj, Yllka Velaj, Sahar Behzadi Soheil and Prof. Claudia Plant is the winner of the SIGKDD 2021 Best Student Paper Award in the Research category.
In this year's online survey for the years 2020/21, no less than 7 research projects of our faculty in the categories Technology Transfer, Knowledge Transfer and Social and Societal Transfer were included in the Third Mission Database of the University of Vienna.
In Prof. Nikolaus Forgó's podcast, Prof. Edgar Weippl talks about information security requirements in the Covid-19 crisis, home office as well as currently very topical issues regarding the central processing of health data.
On 15 April, experts discussed the question of whether artificial intelligence can transform medicine as part of the Kaiserschild Lectures series. Prof. Dr. Claudia Plant, head of the Data Mining (DM) research group, was among the panelists.
Prof. Dr. Monika Henzinger explains in the Audimax Podcast of the University of Vienna the basics and different types of algorithms, why the term has a bad reputation and why it is necessary to strengthen core computer science.
