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BUW introduces Bela Gipp as new Professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering
Dr. Bela Gipp, previously Junior-Professor of Information Science at the University of Konstanz, has been appointed Professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering at the University of Wuppertal. You can find the German press release here. At the School...

Monique Meuschke wins ISINA Best Poster Award
A poster summarizing Monique’s doctoral research won the first prize in a nationwide contest held by the Interdisciplinary Symposium for Women in the MINT Field (ISINA). The winning poster is titled “Visualization, Classification and Interactive...

Launch Event of the Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analysis (IZMD)
The Interdisciplinary Center for Machine Learning and Data Analysis (IZMD) has officially launched at the University of Wuppertal, on March 25th, 2019. Our group is excited to be closely associated with this newly founded center, and Bela Gipp is looking...

Funding for a 3-year, interdisciplinary research project granted

The Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften has awarded our group a 3-year research grant for our joint project with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Karsten Donnay, University of Konstanz:

„Fake News and Collective Decision Making: Rapid Automated Assessment of Media...

Article about our group member Felix Petersen

An article about our group member Felix Petersen appeared in campus.kn. Felix won several prizes at Jugend forscht and will complete his Bachelor in Computer Science at the age of 19.

Talk on the immutable research data trail at Conference on Blockchain for Science

Bela Gipp gave a talk about the immutable research data trail at the 1st international Conference on Blockchain for Science, Research and Knowledge Creation held on 5-6 November in Berlin.

German Supreme Court cites our Research in its Ruling on Dashcam Recordings

'Should Dashcam recordings be admitted as usable evidence in court in an accident liability lawsuit?' The Federal Court of Germany, or Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), which acts as Germany’s supreme court, has arrived at a landmark verdict on this question....

The eCoach teaching innovation project receives funding from Wikimedia Germany, the Stifterverband, and the Volkswagen Stiftung

The eCoach system supports programming courses by automatically checking students’ coding assignments upon submission. The system provides benefits for students and teachers alike. Students benefit from the immediate feedback provided by the system and...

Talk on blockchain technologies at the 'Bodensee Mittelstand 4.0' talk series

Bela Gipp will give a talk on blockchain technologies and visions at the event 'Blockchain – eine Kette an Möglichkeiten für Unternehmen' organized by the Wirtschaftsförderung Bodenseekreis and the competence centre cyberLAGO.

Project 'Open Legal Data' wins faculty4makers Challenge 2017/18

The project openlegaldata.io founded by our doctoral researcher Malte Schwarzer has won the 1st price of this year’s faculty4makers challenge.

Article about Media Bias Research in uni'kon
An article about our research on the automated identification of media bias appeared in uni'kon #68.

Visiting Researcher

We are happy to announce that Dr. Tomas Foltynek of the Mendel University in Brno, Czechia, joined our research group for a 6-month research stay. Tomas is an expert for topics related to academic integrity and is especially interested in the application...