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The attack of the Ümlauts
Umlauts and other diacritics are on the rise in all the places they don’t belong. How else could you explain these photos I took, all within a short time frame?
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Where’s the value in design science research?
Design science research is a well-established research framework to structure research work. There are a couple of variants of this framework, but they all share the same idea that we should solve current and relevant problems by constructing novel solutions to these problems while using appropriate research methods in both the identification of the problem…
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Upcoming talks in September 2023
I’ll be holding the following computer science colloquia talks in the upcoming weeks. All talks are free open to the public. On to previous talks.
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Industry is where the research data is
Over on Facebook, Lionel Briand commented on how hard it is for an academic research group to compete with industrial organizations on research. This is certainly true for hot topics. Right now, with a burning hot AI summer, the research world is split into the have and have-nots (in terms of GPU resources), and this…
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Academic publications and what is wrong with them
The most basic academic currency are your publications. While you can’t (or shouldn’t) trade them, they are the way of how other researchers keep track of you and keep score. The higher your score, the higher you are in the pecking order, of course. A publication has two aspects to it that determine its value:…
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When requirements come last
Peter Naur was probably the first to realize that “computing is a human activity” and that as we program, we are not only solving problems, we are also only just beginning to understand them. This even affects small projects like student theses. For engineering theses, i.e. theses in which some artifact is to be built,…