We have two PhD student openings in our Learning Technologies Group (Informatik 9). The positions are fully funded for at least 3 years. Application deadline is April 30. More information about the positions can be found here.
We won this year's version of the RWTH Computer Science Faculty Soccer Tournament (InfoCup 2010). Below is a photo of our very international winner team.
Last Sunday we won the RWTH Computer Science Faculty Soccer Tournament (InfoCup 2009). below is a photo of our international winner team.
A photo with my dear friend Zhaohui Wang after the successful defense of his diploma thesis yesterday. I enjoyed the great discussions we had around the topic of mashup personal learning environments. Will write more about this in later posts.
Via Maish R Nichani. Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen...(Read more about the prototype on the Wired blog)
Obama’s movement has unleashed a bottoms up openness. The People can no longer be seen as a passive, fear-focused, manageable mob whose only job is to show up to vote every 4 years for the fear-monger in chief. The future will not look like the past. It will be better. There will be more thinking, more doing, more optimism and more real politics.
McCain: “Now we’ve got the cables. We’ve got talk radio. We’ve got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. We’ve got all kinds of sources of information.”
Just came across this post by Katie Ledger listing 11 things kids will not learn in school from a speech Bill Gates recently gave at a High School.
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault; so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
