Annual Report 2010 - Fachgruppe Informatik an der RWTH Aachen ...

Moving back to the lighter side, two of Ottos’s old
companions (Prof. Kurt Geihs and Prof. Ralf Steinmetz)
presented a sketch that allegedly nobody except one of the
actors and Otto could fully understand (apparently, it was
full of allusions to a time when said actor Kurt Geihs, was
about to become Otto’s first PhD graduate.
It is probably not particularly conducive to talks at length
about all the various honorific speeches, greetings, etc.
They came from the speaker of the Computer Science Department (Stefan Kowalewski, who
had a brain-teaser and a bike for Otto), his successor (Klaus Wehrle, who supplied multifunctional
security equipment), the ‘Communication and Distributed Systems’ interest group
of the ‘Gesellschaft für Informatik’ (who made Otto Honorary Chairman), the UMIC research
cluster (of which he was founding deputy speaker), long-time (former?) colleague Manfred
Nagl (who brought gifts from his native desert), the ‘Forum Informatik’ (a platform for the
development of interdisciplinary research and education at RWTH that was co-founded by
Otto) and, last but not least, his former staff (one of their presents had a spillover effect – you
may now find Otto presenting at various poetry slams in the region).
Finally, the key to the Chair Informatik 4 was passed from Otto to his successor (well, at least
symbolically; the bloody thing won’t fit).
The various photos should convey a reasonably good idea of the event (including the
performance of three Thai dancers).
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