1.1 General Information

Felix Quast wins ASQF prize for best Master Thesis

Felix Quast, now a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at our professorship, recently won the ASQF prize for his Master thesis. The ASQF reports about the prize for Felix on its website. From Prof. Riehle and Georg Schwarz's laudatio about the recipient and his work: The JValue project (https:...

FAU Scores Top Spot in SWC Program for Future Leaders of IT

The Softwarecampus program is an excellence-based program of Germany's BMBF (research ministry) aimed at helping future leaders in software (IT) grow and reach their potential. It is open to Master's and Ph.D. students of a selected few top universities in Germany, including FAU. In the final m...

Fight SARS-CoV-2 with your Coding Skills?

We would like to forward to you a call to action from the US-based non-profit group Code for Philly. Code for Philly and the Predictive Healthcare team at Penn Medicine are currently developing the open source tool CHIME. In the light of the current SARS-CoV-2 (“Coronavirus”) pandemic, they are se...

Georg Schwarz wins ASQF prize for best Master Thesis

Georg-Daniel Schwarz, now a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at our professorship, recently won the ASQF prize for his Master thesis. The ASQF reports about the prize for Georg on its website. From Prof. Riehle's laudatio about the recipient and his work: Der JValue Open Data Service (ODS, ...

First winner for best explanation of “who stole this poster?” mystery

img.floatRight { float: right; margin: 16px; padding: 8px } We are happy to announce this week's winner of the competition to find the best explanation for our missing poster. The winner is Michael Weber. This is his ingenious detective insight into what might have happened (in German): ...

Heavy Duty Sofa

Per request of the department, our sofa is now available for pregnant women (if they can find space, that is).

FAU Engineering Faculty in the Top 100 Global Universities

According to the annually published Shanghai University Ranking, the engineering faculty of FAU (TechFak) ranks in the 76-100 bracket of the top global universities. This is the more amazing and a testament to our university's capabilities, given that we keep reporting research data in a way disadva...

Interview mit Prof. Riehle zu Open-Source-Geschäftsmodellen sowie Startupinformatik

Passend zur ersten Ausgabe mit unseren neuen Präsidenten, Prof. Joachim Hornegger, haben dann auch wir es in das Magazin der FAU geschafft (lokale Kopie). Wir sind sogar auf der Titelseite unten links gelandet! Konkret handelt es sich um ein Interview mit Prof. Riehle zum Thema Open-Source-Geschäfts...

Cheat Sheet to Floor Numbers of Blue High Tower

Our group can be found on the 11th floor of the blue high-tower. As part of the on-going renovation, traditional (decimal) floor numbers (Stockwerknummern) have been removed and replaced with binary floor numbers. While certainly a joy to most computer scientists, we are currently looking for a grou...

Statement of Positioning of Professorship

The purpose of this professorship is to perform software engineering research and teaching. Within software engineering, we pay particular attention to software product development with the goal of turning University innovation into software product startups. Together with our colleagues of the appl...