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German has won Nobel Prize for Medicine 2008 2008-10-06 09:39:00 After the German
successes in Stockholm last year, again a German, Harald zur Hausen from the Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, has won the Nobel
Prize for Medicine
2008 for "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" (one half of the prize). Also great for Europe, the other two winners are from France "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus". Please rea
Adaptive Hypermedia 2008-10-06 08:45:00 New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia*Special issue on Adaptive
HypermediaGuest editors: Peter Brusilovsky & Paul De BraAdaptive hypermedia is a research area at the crossroads of hypermedia and user modeling. Adaptive hypermedia systems offer an alternative to the traditional "one-size-fits-all"hypermedia and Web systems by adapting to the goals, interests, and knowledge of individual use
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UMIC DAY 08 2008-10-05 11:15:00 We cordially invite you to the second colloquium of the Cluster of ExcellenceUMIC DAY 08at RWTH Aachen University.21 October 2008Aula 2, Center of Computer ScienceAhornstraße 55Aachen, GermanyProgram2:00 pm Welcome (Snack)3:00 pm Keynote SpeechZero ErrorProf. em. Dr. J.L. Massey, ETH Zürich3:45 pm Break4:00 pmInfinite Games and Dynamic NetworksProf. Dr. W. Thomas (i7)4:15 pmHow to Gamble Against
Developer Day 2008 Update 2008-10-05 10:15:00 Dominik Renzel and Christian Hocken have launched a website which holds the final schedule. It is really a great program. The registration deadline has been set to the 6th of October 2008. Further information can be found on the website.Program Schedule Opening 09:00 - 9:15 Opening Address Agenda, Christian Hocken Dominik Renzel Java Development 09:15 - 10:00 Eclipse Workfl Read more:Developer
, Update
9th Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community 2008-10-05 06:03:00 Call for Papers9th Workshop
of the Multimedia
Metadata Communitywith a special focus on context-aware mobile multimedia servicesMarch 19th-20thTo be held in conjunction with CORESA'09It can be expected in the near future that the number of created digital multimedia content will rise dramatically. Multimedia metadata is currently the only way to cope with problems like semantics based retrieval o
Technology-Enabled Social Networks 2008-10-04 09:20:00 Technology-Enabled Social
NetworksSpecial Issue Announcement for Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research (JITCAR)Submission deadline: October 1, 2008Author notification: January 15, 2009Final Revisions due: April 15, 2009Please contact the special issue editor Salvatore Parise, sparise@babson.edu, with any questions.Social networks are typically defined as the people-to- Read more:Technology
Enabling Communities by Constructed Media: The Case of a Web-Based Study Environment for a Talmudic Tractate 2008-10-04 09:10:00 (((Wow. Springer is spreading information about work older than 5 years!)))The Babylonian Talmud is still an authoritative source for many orthodox Jews, an dialogic encyclopaedia of knowledge and one of the most impressive pieces of world literature. However, the distribution of this knowledge is limited by the burdensome task of studying this complex work. The paper presents a comprehensive stud Read more:Communities
, Environment
, Study
Metadata and Cooperative Knowledge Management 2008-10-03 08:51:00 Cooperative knowledge management refers to the work practice or culture facet of information systems engineering; it plays a key role especially in engineering and consulting domains. However, in comparison to technology-centered and business-process-centered meta modeling approaches (exemplified by UML and ERP), this aspect has received significantly less attention in research and is much less ma Read more:Knowledge
, Management
Oregon Trail - The good ol' days of educational gaming 2008-10-03 08:50:00 In a recent meeting my dear colleague Katherine Maillet asked me what is new about story-telling and educational gaming? She was giving the example of OregonTrail
. This game is around for almost 40 years. The first version was created in 1971. As it is so old and it was so massively used in US schools it has created a lot of folklore around it. You can play a web-based version with updated graphi
iPhone and progress 2008-10-01 05:20:00 Since I have got the iPhone
from my university I get funny things like this one from Mathias Lux. They are all completely right. But heh, Apple stocks already dropped. Nevertheless, we will demo Virtual Campfire on the iPhone at the next UMIC day in late October.
Read more:progress
Interactive Digital Entertainment Technologies 2008-10-01 05:10:00 (((This is from Marc who is the Publicity Chair of this workshop.)))The 2nd International Workshop onInteractive DigitalEntertainment
Technologies (IDET 2009) 28 – 30 September, 2009, University of Aizu, Japan In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Ubi-media Computing 2009 With the significant development of digital technologies in recent years, we are seeing more and mor
A new doctor at our chair - Part VI 2008-10-01 05:00:00 Image Courtesy of Reinhard LindeAt September 19, 2008, Satish Srirama from our chair successfully defended his dissertation with the topic "Mobile Hosts in Enterprise Service Integration".Abstract:It is now feasible to access basic web services from smart phones due to the advances in wireless devices and mobile communication technologies. While mobile web services (MWS) clients are common, the th
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FreeGIS.org
Main Page - Media Annotations Working Group Wiki
LE2I - Laboratoire Electronique, Informatique et Image
Data Integration for Multimedia E-learning Environments with XML and MPEG-7 2008-09-30 14:00:00 Integration of heterogeneous data is one of the greatest challenges for versatile e-learning environments, since support for different multimedia data formats is often restricted or adaptions are necessary to fit strict requirements. Therefore, we examine the opportunities given by new metadata standards like MPEG-7 and XML
for knowledge management in terms of automated processing, evaluation and Read more:Multimedia
Living Web Archives 2008-09-30 10:15:00 Marc has sent me the link to his project Living
Web Archives
(LiWA). LiWA is a EU project in the FP7 programme. Here are some snippets from the website. You can read more there.LiWA will look beyond the pure “freezing” of Web content snapshots for a long time, transforming pure snapshot storage into a “Living” Web Archive. “Living” refers toa) long term interpretability as archives ev
STEG'08 Updates 2008-09-30 08:40:00 Yiwei has posted some updates about the First International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'08). Especially, all the presentations are available now on slideshare.net.
Verkehrsmittel.de 2008-09-30 08:00:00 (((This is from my colleagues and Aachen based entrepreneurs Johannes Grassmann and Veit Sonnenschein. They have created a new service for getting the best transportation available for a certain route.))The site we are referring to is called To explain what the site is about, well, it's kind of a mixed transportation search that allows you to find ideal travel routes within germany very quickl
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DWDS
GAP System for Computational Discrete Algebra
The 8th International Conference on Web-based Learning (2009)
Gallery - 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners - Image 1 - New Scientist
Tag Cloud of University Home Pages | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
DB 2009
Digiplay Initiative | Understanding Digital Games
triTOS
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Rescope: Reflecting about tag clouds 2008-09-29 11:36:00 (((This is from the TenCompetence List. Please help Christian to evaluate his service. )))Dear fellow PhDs, As part of my PhD study I conduct an experiment using ReScope (). I look for participants who are actively working with the social bookmarking platform delicious.com. I kindly request all readers of this mailing list to distribute the attached call for participation among their pee Read more:Reflecting
ICWL 2009 Website online 2008-09-29 09:00:00 The website for the ICWL 2009 is online
. We will soon release the call for papers.The logos can be downloaded at the website.
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies - First Issue Online 2008-09-29 05:48:00 That's great. The first issue of IEEE Transactions on Learning
Technologies is online (IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES, VOL. 1, NO. 1, JANUARY-MARCH 2008). This special issue with the best and extended papers of EC-TEL 2007 was edited by Erik Duval and me. We wrote an introduction to the special issue which can be downloaded for free. This is from the introduction:Our thanks go to all o Read more:First
Multi-Meshed Tree Algorithms in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 2008-09-29 05:01:00 Thursday, October 2, 11 a.m. Department of Wireless Networks (MobNets), SemPost veröffentlicheninar Room, Kackertstrasse 9 Prof. Nirmala Shenoy Rochester Institute of Technology At the Lab for Wireless Networking and Security, an algorithm called the Multi
Meshed Tree (MMT) which is able to form multi hop clusters, while setting up proactive routes from the cluster clients to the cluster Read more:Algorithms
, Mobile
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