2011

• Excellent Bachelor graduates in computer science can apply for a new Master's program which is designed to lead up to a Ph.D. degree
• At CeBIT Prof. Hasso Plattner and his HPI deputy chair, Dr. Alexander Zeier launched their new book: It discusses the In-memory Technology which is a result of the combined high-tech research of HPI and SAP

2010

• November: German Federal President Christian Wulff stops over at the HPI on his inaugural visit to the city of Potsdam
• July: opening of the new main building
• First business plan contest exclusively for HPI students
• June: opening of the HPI‘s top-level research lab, "Future SOC Lab"
• April: launch of the second branch of the HPI Research School at Technion in Haifa (Israel)
• The HPI School of Design Thinking triples its student capacity to 120 students per term in 2010
• HPI ranks first in the CHE (Centre for Higher Education Development) list of computer science programs

2009

• 10-year anniversary celebration with two scientific conferences
• As of the HPI’s 10-year anniversary, the institute lists 460 Bachelor and 190 Master degrees, 26 PhDs and one PostDoc
• April: launch of the first international branch of the HPI Research School  at University of Cape Town in South Africa
• amongst three other universities the HPI is #1 at the CHE-Ranking
• In February Prof. Hasso Plattner places the foundation stone for the new HPI extension building

2008

• November: launch of a cooperation with Stanford University in the field of innovation research
• Creation of two new research groups: System Analysis and Modeling, and Human-Computer Interaction
• HPI is being awarded "Selected Location" the third time by the initiative "Germany - Land of Ideas".

2007

• Start of HPI School of Design Thinking
• 300th Bachelor's and 100th Master's degree
• for the second time HPI is "selected location" in the innovation campaign "Germany - Land of Ideas"

2006

• December: the federal government’s first National IT Summit is held at HPI
• Creation of two new research groups: Software Architectures, and Information Systems
• HPI lists 200 Bachelor and 50 Master degrees
• HPI is "selected location" of the innovation campaign "Germany - land of ideas"

• #4 at the CHE-Ranking

2005

• October: founding of the HPI Research School
• July: founding of the venture capital fund Hasso Plattner Ventures in close vicinity of HPI
• In May, the first Master's degrees are awarded.

2004

• Institute founder Hasso Plattner appoints Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel as the new Scientific Director and announces plans for a large-scale extension of the Institute in Potsdam and Palo Alto as well as cooperation with Stanford University.

2003

• In April, the first Bachelor's degree is awarded
• in the summer semester, the first Master's program commences.

2001

• In October, the Institute's new premises are officially opened.

2000

• In July, the foundation stone for the Institute´s own premises is laid.

1999

• In October, the Institute commences its academic work in rented premises
• The Hasso Plattner Foundation is set up in December.

1998

• In October, Hasso Plattner founds the "Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering" as a business company
• Prof. Dr. Siegfried Wendt is appointed Scientific Director.