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The Book on the openHPI Course: Hasso Plattner Explains In-Memory Databases
Potsdam. Prof. Hasso Plattner, founder and benefactor of the German Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering (HPI), has published a new book on in-memory data technology. The English-language work entitled, “A...[more]
SAP uses openHPI platform for its own open online courses
Potsdam. German Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) is supporting the educational initiative of the software company SAP AG to offer interactive online courses open to everyone - so-called MOOCs. These courses, backed by technology...[more]
First German Researcher Accepted into Computer-Human Interaction Academy
Potsdam. Potsdam computer science professor Patrick Baudisch (Hasso Plattner Institute, HPI) is the first German researcher to be accepted into the Computer-Human Interaction Academy of the Association for Computing Machinery...[more]
openHPI: Already 3,000 registrations for open online course “Semantic Web”
Potsdam. Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) reports high interest worldwide in the latest online course at its new open online Internet educational platform www.openhpi.de. Already more than 3,000 have signed up for the third...[more]
openHPI: Free open online course introduces the Semantic Web
Potsdam. The conventional Internet search reaches the limits of its power when the computer is expected to correctly interpret the meaning of information and not simply a character string. How the information expressed in natural...[more]
HPI expands its China Cooperation with an Innovation School in Beijing
Potsdam/Beijing. After a two year preparation phase, teaching has begun at the School of Design Thinking located at Beijing’s Communication University of China (CUC), China’s largest media university. It follows in the footsteps...[more]
Westerwelle Patron of the Germany-China Internet Bridge
Potsdam/Beijing. The German Federal Government praised the collaborative work that has existed between Germany and China during the last ten years in the area of Tele-Teaching. The so called “Internet Bridge” is an expression of...[more]
World Health Summit: HPI Presents Instantaneous Genome Analysis
Potsdam/Berlin. A new database technology from Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) holds the promise of utilizing personalized medicine on a comprehensive scale. This technology is to be presented at the World Health Summit on October...[more]
High Performance Computing in the Cloud: Chinese-German Symposium
Potsdam. The Hasso Plattner Institute will be holding a Chinese-German workshop on the practical applications of cloud computing and high performance computing from the 22nd to the 25th of October. Approximately 30 researchers...[more]
Experiencing Innovation Up Close: The d.confestival presents its program
The international d.confestival will be taking place in Potsdam from 20 to 22 September, offering more than 40 different possibilities of experiencing innovation up close in a unique mixture of conference and festival.[more]
Creative Lateral Thinkers Meet at the First Innovation Conference in Potsdam
Several hundred innovation experts from all over the world will be meeting in September with Design Thinking pioneers in Potsdam near Berlin to discuss future-oriented models and methods.[more]
Gaining Trust as an Internet User: HPI Symposium on Trust Management
Potsdam. The ability to create and secure trust on the Internet is the topic that leading scientists and economic experts will be examining on the 22nd and 23rd of March at an international symposium to be held at the Potsdam...[more]
Hasso Plattner Institute at CeBIT 2012
Hannover/Potsdam. The Potsdam Hasso Plattner Institute will be presenting its research projects and exhibits at the CeBIT 2012, in Hall 26 (9) booth H12, from 6-10 March 2012. The "Greenhouse" booth will be sure to...[more]
Managing Trust: Experts from academia and industry discuss at HPI
Potsdam. Recognizing the growing interest in trust management problems and solutions, Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) initiates a symposium which brings trust management experts from the academic field as well as the industry to...[more]
HPI: The Third Research Branch Takes Up Work - in Nanjing (China)
Potsdam/Nanjing. The Research School at Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) has opened its third international "branch", following Cape Town and Haifa. In the city of Nanjing on Thursday, November 17th, the "HPI...[more]
IPv6 Contest: Fresh ideas for the internet of the next generation
Potsdam. The German IPv6 Council has started the third international IPv6 application contest on the new generation internet network. Invited are innovative ideas based on the new internet standard IPv6. The objectives of the...[more]
Plattner Institute invites scientists to engage in top level research laboratory
Potsdam. The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) has called computer scientists from around the world to compete with proposals for the use of its top level research laboratory. The “HPI Future SOC Lab” which was established in...[more]
Hasso Plattner Institute launches new Master's program with Ph.D. track
Potsdam. Excellent Bachelor graduates in computer science have the chance to apply for a new Master's program at Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam (Germany). The program will begin in the academic year 2011-12 and is designed...[more]
HPI Research School offers new scholarships for ten young academics
Potsdam. The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) admits ten new junior researchers to its international “Research School”. Starting in the upcoming winter term they can join the Potsdam-based graduate school, a team of around 30...[more]
CeBIT: Hasso Plattner presents groundbraking In-Memory Technology
Hannover/Potsdam/Heidelberg. In the last 50 years, the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT. Today, it is seeing a new inflection point: In a newly published book titled In-Memory Data Management – An...[more]
CeBIT: Hasso Plattner Institute foresees a change in information technology
Hanover/Potsdam. The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) has designed its stand at CeBIT 2011 to resemble an innovative kind of hothouse. It shows visitors that HPI in Potsdam has the ideal climate and excellent conditions to help...[more]