Annual Report 2007/2008 - Fachgruppe Informatik an der RWTH ...

Open Day – 21. ‘Tag der Informatik’ 2007
The ‘Tag der Informatik’ at the RWTH Aachen is the traditional colloquium where the chairs
of the computer science department present their research and teaching activities. This event
gives the opportunity to gather information about the computer science department and to
establish interdisciplinary contacts. This is accomplished by poster, software and hardware
exhibitions of a multitude of computer science chairs as well as industrial and research
partners. It took place on December, 7th 2007 and was organized by the Chair of Computer
Science I (Algorithms and Complexity).
The welcome adress was given by Vice Dean Prof. Dr. Ulrich Simon and by the spokesman
of the computer science department, Prof. Dr. Leif Kobbelt.
Selected research topics were presented by members of the CS department in two technical
sessions. In detail these were ‘Echtzeiterkennung von Gesten und Berührungsevents für
menschliche Computerinteraktion mittels Stereo Cameras’ (Thomas Deselaers, i6), ‘Der
Mensch als Problemquelle in der Softwaretechnik’ (Dirk Wilking, i11),
‘Konsistenzsicherungswerkzeuge für die verfahrenstechnische Entwicklung’ (Anne-Thérèse
Körtgen, i3), ‘Lastverteilung von hierarchischen Tetraedergittern mittels Graphen’ (Oliver
Fortmeier, i12), ‘3D Photography’ (Alexander Hornung, i8), ‘Word Rewriting and Infinite-
State System Verification’ (Jan-Henrik Altenbernd, i7) and ‘The TS-Tree: Efficient Time
Series Search and Retrieval’ (Ira Assent, i9).
The highlights of the scientific program were invited talks from Prof. Dr. Rolf Möhring (TU
Berlin) speaking about ‘Optimierung in Verkehr und Logistik’, Prof. Bruce Maggs (Carnegie
Mellon University and Akamai Technologies) discussing ‘Engineering a Large Self-Managed
Network’ and Prof. Dr. Guido Burkard (Fachgruppe Physik, RWTH Aachen) talking about
‘Quanten-Computer: Traum oder Realität?’.
After the scientific part of the day, the yearly student grant, which was sponsored by AMB
Generali, was awarded to the selected student Sten Gröner. Following this, the highly
entertaining final rounds of the annual ‘Sun Microsystems Softwarepreis’ were played out.
Traditionally, participants in this contest have to implement clever strategies for a particular
strategic game. As a novelty, this year's game, Hexial, was a multi-player game, and four
winners of the preliminary round competed in the finals. In an entertaining and enthralling
match, team Bearbot came of as the winner, with runners up teams Wumpus, HexHex, and
Doppelrot. The prize money of 2,500 euro in total was handed to the teams by Sun
Microsystems.
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