University Liaison

Friday, November 25th, 2005

Today our company invited the department of Computer Science at the Technical University Vienna to present current research topics and results as well as to discuss possible collaborations. I am curious about the result of this event.
In a workshop Alexander Schatten discussed issues of Agile Development of businesses as well as software and he [...]

Snow and Fish

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

We had the first snow today. After leaving the house and walking for ten minutes I looked like a little snow man. (Un)fortunately, it did not stay. However, the forecast promises more snow and cold weather.
I went to a cafe/bar/restaurant called “Rochus” to try their breakfast. Frankly, I was not too impressed, nevertheless my stomach [...]

Cheap Phone Calls

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

I have a mobile phone and a landline. Unfortunately, it costs more money to use my landline to call mobile phone numbers than using my mobile phone. However, for calls that might last a while I prefer using my landline. Thus I had to search for some cheap offers and I found some:
http://www.austriaphone.at/ offers a [...]

Software Raid

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

In October 2003 I helped my dad to set up a Raid system using SuSE 8.2. I wrote up my experiences and published it on my old website. I was very surprised but also happy to find out that it also helped others. A few days ago I received an email asking me for permission [...]

Ars Electronica

Friday, November 11th, 2005

Yesterday we went to Linz on a departmental away day. There we visited the Ars Electronica center – a “museum of the future”.
This exhibition is a great playground. You are allowed to touch (almost) everything, to try everything out, to participate and to “change” the exhibition in that way. It was great. I was [...]

Qotd

Monday, November 7th, 2005

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)

Research Pages

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

Hello,
I created a few new pages detailing my previous research. They contain a short description of the research I conducted at the University of Kent as well as abstracts of my publications and PhD dissertation. In my research I was mainly concerned with Handling Inconsistency and Underdefinedness in Z Specifications using Paraconsistency and [...]