Author: Dirk Riehle

Today, Wolfgang Mauerer of Siemens Corporate Technology lectured on statistics and regressions, providing students in Nailing your Thesis with a refresher of the math necessary for our open source analytics work. Thank you, Wolfgang, for your continued help!

The Information Systems folks in Nuremberg were able to arrange for a screening of the PHD movie (yes, PHD, not Ph.D. but still on target :-) on Dec 14, 2011. Check out their information. Below, for your enjoyment, the original movie trailer. Grad students of FAU, rejoice! PHD Movie Trailer from ...

We will host an industry talk (free and open to the public) by: Christa Schwanninger, Siemens AG about: Product Line Engineering on: Dec 19, 2011, 10 Uhr (10am) at: Rm 04.150, Martensstr. 3 ("blaues Hochhaus") Abstract: Most products and solutions in industry are not built from...

This semester, we are looking at a fantastic line-up of industry speakers. Look forward with us to listening to: 19.12.11: Christa Schwanninger (Siemens) on: Product Line Engineering 23.01.12: Wolfgang Keller (Object Architects) on: Enterprise Architecture Management 25.01.12: Ulf Schubert (D...

Today we discussed JP Morgan Chase's presentation of "technology in banking" at Stanford's EE380 class. Discussion notes from the blackboard below, as usual. Also, in the lower part of the blackboard, the power law result of a recent paper on the distribution of coupling relationships in Java. ...

The chair of Geograhpy studies at LMU published an entrepreneurship ranking of German universities, see this PDF. FAU's total score is in the top third, place 21, up from place 34 two years earlier. I'm not entirely sure how to interpret it, but one thing about FAU stands out: On the dimension of En...

Today in the Software Architecture seminar we watched and discussed: Richard Monson-Haefel: 10 Things Every Software Architect Should Know Dan Ingalls on Forty Years of Fun with Computers For the first talk, please find the black board notes below.

Today in Nailing your Thesis we were happy to have Prof. Nicole Kimmelmann of FAU's own WiSo faculty as a guest speaker. Her topic was Grounded Theory and specifically, interview analysis. Since several students chose interview analysis as their class thesis, we expect this to have been very useful!...

In ARCH-TALK today we discussed three example systems (Asterisk, Mercurial, LLVM), all taken from the Architecture of Open Source Applications book. In addition, we watched Ian Wilkes presentation of the architecture of Second Life (2007) on InfoQ. For those who missed it, please find the black b...

From a visit to one of our sponsors, just for fun. Enjoy!