Events

News & Upcoming Events

Past News & Events

• Jun 13, 2007: The "Studieninformationstag" took place on Jun 13, 9.30am - 15pm. We contributed with a presentation of Personal Orchestra.

• Nov 14, 2006: Aachen local event for the World Usability Day
• Nov 1, 2006: Our chair is a member of the new UMIC Research Cluster on Ultra-highspeed Mobile Information and Communication, established as part of the German government's Excellence Initiative. UMIC is funding Thorsten Karrer's PhD work on Organic and Adaptive User Interfaces.
• Oct 01, 2006: In WS06/07, the DIS I lecture was moved to Tuesdays from 2-5pm to join Bonn and Aachen classes via video.
• Jul 10, 2006: Check out the DIS2 Project Competion Video and the DIS2 Project Websites.
• Jun 22, 2006: Our "Helle Köpfe" workshop for school kids took place this Thursday (22-06-2006). We demonstrated how to build your own music instrument with a computer.
• Apr 27, 2006: Poultry.Internet was a big hit at CHI 2006 Interactivity:
  • The Guardian
  • The Age
  • PC World
• Apr 22, 2006: Check out the CHI 2006 Interactivity sneak peek (med. res, high res), produced by the Media Computing Group.
• Feb 01, 2006: DIS student projects - Designing an Interactive Large Public Display Application

• Dec 2, 2005: We organized the annual Tag der Informatik this year. We also showed several of our research projects, and the DIS 2 student projects there.
• Oct 27, 2005: Top Talent Quality Seal 2005 for coJIVE, our interactive jazz improvisation system, as one of the top 42 out of 411 submissions.
• Oct 15, 2005: * Video podcasts of our lectures are now available, beginning with DIS 1.
• Oct 01, 2005: Important change in teaching schedule: Starting WS05/06, we offer DIS1, Patterns, the seminar and the "Softwarepraktikum" in Winter, and DIS2, Current Topics, the "Praktikum" and the "Proseminar" in Summer, in order to better suit our students' needs. See CAMPUS for details.
• Sep 26-27, 2005: We show various interactive demos at the http://www.gi-workshop-vrar.org/
• Sep 26, 2005: Details on the Sun-Softwarepreis 2005 are available now
• Jun 8, 2005: http://www.rwth-aachen.de/zentral/abt14_dl_workshops_schueler_dies.htm
• Apr 28, 2005: http://www.rwth-aachen.de/zentral/gsb_girlsday_index.htm
• Apr 05, 2005: Check out the CHI 2005 Interactivity Venue sneak peek (med. res, high res), produced by the Media Computing Group.
• Mar 07, 2005: Schüler-Informationstag
• Register for our seminar (11-21.01.2005) or for our proseminar (12-20.01.2005) during the next summer term.
• Jan 27, 2005: Prof. Bernt Schiele from the Lehrstuhl Multimodale Interaktive Systeme, TU Darmstadt will be giving a talk on "Multi-Sensor Context Awareness for Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing". See the streaming video of the talk and the presentation slides.
• Jan 19, 2005: Personal Orchestra presentation at the User Centered Computing in NRW Event, NRW House, European Union, Brussels. (View the Flyer)
• Jan 13, 2005: CrossY talk by Georg Apitz in room 2212 at 13:00 hours today.

• Dec 03, 2004: See the videos from Tag der Informatik.
• The 1st annual DIS2 Project Competition was a huge success! Be sure to check out some of the great videos.
• Jul 14, 2004: Learn more about our field of studies at the RWTH Information Day (Studieninformationstag) for high school students
• Apr 08, 2004: B-IT receives 5 million Euros (in German; use Mozilla to view)
• Submit your creative multimedia project to the 2004 Europrix Top Talent Award Europrix Top Talent Award! 1st prize: 10,000 Euros. Deadline: June 30th. Contact Britta (gruenberg(at)cs.rwth-aachen.de) for the DVD of last year's top projects and more materials.
• May 14-16, 2004: Try out our You're The Conductor exhibit at the WIRED NextFest in San Francisco!
• Apr 22, 2004: Create your own music video in our workshop during the RWTH Girls' Day
• Apr 19, 2004: Dr. Trevor Pering from Intel Research Berkeley presents Intel's PersonalServer research project