Today I started working on two new projects at university. The first one aims at creating a web application for managing so called FoPras (=projects for advanced students). Our team consists of seven students and we’re using the OpenUP/Basic software development process. The main purpose of this project is not creating the application but getting used to having to work with a certain software development model.
Somehow related to this, my other project’s (I’m on my own on this) goal is to create a representation of a different model, EOS, which was developed at my University. This will be realized through Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) and in the end hopefully look similar to this one.
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May 3, 2007
April 27, 2007
On Wednesday I attended the lecture of Prof. Weizenbaum I told you about. It was as entertaining as I expected starting with the fact he had forgotten the first page of his notes! There’s no better way to start a lecture, right? Although he didn’t talk too much about the actual topic (“Aspects of Artificial Intelligence”) the lecture was absolutely worth it’s time. The Auditorium Maximum (Audimax) which has 898 seats was quite full, maybe about 70%. The audience was a lot more varied than I thought, ranging from Teenagers (very few) over a lot of Computer Science students and professors to ordinary people (well, ordinary with a certain level of education). If you’re interested in Weizenbaums lecture you can download it in mp3 format from this page. Please note that it’s obviously in German and the quality is quite low.
April 23, 2007
That’s the title of a documentary about Joseph Weizenbaum, computer science pioneer and co-founder of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, which is going to be shown at my University tomorrow as part of this years Studium Generale. Unfortunately I won’t have time to see it but lucky for me there’s something even better coming up. Weizenbaum himself is coming too and holding a lecture titled “Aspects of Artificial Intelligence” on Wednesday. As this is one of the very few chances you nowadays get, and maybe even one of the last, to listen to a pioneer of my future profession I’ll certainly be attending it. I’m not entirely sure what his lecture will be about but I have no doubt it will be worth listening to.
