The Saarbrücken Graduate School in Computer Science

• An integrated program from B.Sc. or M.Sc. to Ph.D.
• Study and conduct research at a top computer science location
• Stipends and other forms of financial support
• All courses are taught in English
• !!! Next application deadline: 30 April 2009 !!!
• More information at
  http://frweb.cs.uni-sb.de/index.php?id=7&L=0

Junior Research Groups at Saarland University

Saarland University is seeking to establish several junior research groups within the recently established Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction.” Here is the official announcement.

Holidays

They say a picture is worth 1.000 words, so here is a 2.000.000-words-worth collection of pictures I took in the nicest holidays I had for a very long time.

Disclaimer. The quality Picasa displays online is absolutely horrible, for which I apologize. I usually scale down the pictures myself at reasonable quality, but this seems to no longer help — Picasa now scales them one more time and compresses them so much it destroys them. One thing that might work is downloading the albums you want to see as a whole using the Picasa client for Windows.

Visited the Local Brewery

This morning I went with my office mate and some of his student residence mates to the Bruch brewery very close to my home. We found out more about the Bruch family business, we were thoroughly explained how beer is brewed, we did a tour of the brewery, we ate, and finally we drank a lot of Bruch bier (Bruch’s No1). Then I returned home and slept during the day. This was exactly what I needed after the recent deadlines

Computer Science Research in Saarbrücken Gets More Funding

Both excellence proposals in Computer Science coming from Saarbrücken were accepted. One proposal concerns a new graduate school which will encompass all graduate education in Computer Science at Saarland University. The other is about a new “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” excellence cluster which will host 20 new research groups. Happy, happy, joy, joy

Press release in English

Two Years in Germany

Other than Germany’s national holiday, I have one more reason to celebrate today: two years ago I came to Saarbrucken.

(The picture is from one of my friend’s good-bye party last night.)

Buy a Mac, Get an iPod Nano

Now in Germany too

Hauptsach gutt gess

vom Schmausen und Hausen der Saarländer

Microsoft Supports IMPRS-CS

Press Release: Microsoft Research Contributes up to €1 Million for Exceptional PhD Research at the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science.

Old Friends

 

Altstadtfest Saarbrücken

Lots of people, lots of bier, lots of smoke from the grills, lots of music and dance. The best I liked the Mark Gillespie Band:

Stuttgart

Ich bin dagegen!

Invitation to IBM Stuttgart

As some of you already know, this autumn I got invited to the IBM Top Student Event in Stuttgart. And since I just received the additional information (in German) here is what this is all about (free translation):

“Spend two exciting days with us, so that together we bridge the gap between studies and career.

New Absurd German Fee

What seemed a very bad joke is now reality in Germany. German state premiers have agreed on a monthly license fee for computers and cell phones that CAN access television and radio programs via the Internet. The new 5.52 euros fee is NOT for USING your computer or cell phone to watch TV, but just for possessing a device that could in principle be used for watching TV.