Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 9:30 - 10:15 a.m.Lecture, study information Why Should You Consider Studying Informatics (Warum sich ein Studium der Informatik lohnt!)In today's information and knowledge society, Informatics is one of the key sciences. During the basic education period at the beginning of the course, Informatics conveys sound basic knowledge; later, students can enhance this knowledge by choosing a research-oriented area of specialisation. To better explain this concept, this lecture presents selected teaching and research scenarios of the Department of Informatics in Karlsruhe. |
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 10:30 - 11:15 a.m.Study information Informatics Course of Studies – What's It All About? (Studiengang Informationswirtschaft - worum geht's?)Today, the tasks and questions of information-processing systems can no longer be covered by a single subject. In addition to the technical implementation (Informatics) and business models (Economics), you also need to have knowledge on the basic legal conditions (Legal Sciences). Consequently, the KIT offers the interdisciplinary course of studies Information Engineering and Management that teaches students in all three disciplines. This lecture presents the contents and structure of the course of studies. |
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 11:30 - 12.00 a.m.Demonstration Students Present Software ProjectsIn the PSE lab, Informatics students learn how to execute a complete software project in teamwork. This lab aims to apply software design and quality assurance methods in practice, to translate their implementation skills into action and to cooperate and share work in a team. In our demonstration, the best teams of the last PSE cycle will present the software they have developed, e.g. a Rubik's Cube for the mobile phone, a software analysing Facebook and co. and a method for signing and processing sales contracts in a digital and secure way. |
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, starting at 12:00 a.m.Table Talks Information and Advice by Other Students (Tischgespräche: Studierende informieren und beraten aus einer Hand)What's the best way to organise my studies? How can I find a flat? How can I get a job as student assistant? During a cozy (and free!) lunch, students will give you useful and interesting facts about the Informatics and Information Engineering and Management courses of studies and give insights into the life at the KIT campus. |
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 1:00 - 1:20 p.m.Lecture Software Engineering on its Way to an Engineering Science (Softwaretechnik auf dem Weg zur Ingenieurwissenschaft)Why don't people trust software as much as they trust other technical systems? Is Software Engineering, despite its name, not an engineering science after all? Is each programmer also a software engineer? These are some of the questions the lecture will deal with. The lecturer will present general characteristics of an engineering science and analyse and classify software engineering with its present strengths and weaknesses. In particular, the lecturer will explain the features of an engineering-based software design and what still needs to be researched. |
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 1:20 - 2:00 p.m.Lecture Encrypting Secrets: History and Current State of Cryptography (Geheimnisse entschlüsseln: Geschichte und Gegenwart der Kryptographie)This lecture describes historical encryption methods from hieroglyphs to Enigma and explains why they are not secure from today's point of view. Modern encryption methods allow the exchange of secrets even if the people using them have never met before. Using such remarkable methods, modern cryptography can even solve tasks which seem to be impossible. As a playful example, the participants can calculate which of two millionaires is richer with neither of the millionaires actually having to name the size of his fortune. |
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.Workshop Workshop on Network Analysis: From Facebook to Google (Workshop Netzwerkanalyse: Von Facebook zu Google)What's the best way to distribute news? How can you divide a class into courses that keep as many friends together as possible? What's holding a group of friends together? Social networks are everywhere: Everyone is part of a group of friends and almost everybody is member of the German online network SchülerVZ or another web community. Network analyses deal with the structure of these networks and the role each individual plays in these networks. In this workshop, we want to take a close look at friendship relationship networks: We will simulate an algorithm for evaluating the importance in a network and thus follow in the footsteps of the founders of Google. |
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 2:15 - 3:30 p.m.Workshop How Question-and-Answer Portals will Replace Conventional Search Engines (Wie Frage-Antwort-Portale klassische Suchmaschinen ablösen)Question-and-Answer portals such as Yahoo Answers and Google Aardvark are about to replace conventional search engines. Here, users ask questions and answer the questions of other users. In this workshop, we explain the basic functionality of Question-and-Answer portals and show possibilities to build trust between the users. Afterwards, you can participate in a game where you can test a live Question-and-Answer portal. In the course of this game, each user can pose questions to other users. If the user answers the questions, the asking user will collect credits. However, posing and answering questions costs credits. Thus, you have to act in a smart way to get as many credits as possible! At the end, the results of the game will be evaluated. |
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 3:45 - 4:30 p.m.Lecture, study information How Much Theory Do You Need for Informatics? (Wieviel Theorie gehört zur Informatik?)Each science consists in part of basic questions which are not subject to change in the course of time. Theoretical Informatics, for example, deals with the question how to separate predictable things from unpredictable things and how to calculate the effort needed for solving certain problems. The deliberations for answering these questions are of a very mathematical nature. This lecture gives an insight in the theoretical foundations of Informatics and stresses the strong interrelationship between Mathematics and Informatics. |
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 9:00 - 9:45 a.m.Lecture, study information Why You Should Consider Studying Informatics (Warum sich ein Studium der Informatik lohnt!)In today's information and knowledge society, Informatics is one of the key sciences. During the basic education period at the beginning of the course, Informatics conveys sound basic knowledge; later, students can enhance this knowledge by choosing a research-oriented area of specialisation. To better explain this concept, this lecture presents selected teaching and research scenarios of the Department of Informatics in Karlsruhe. |
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Thursday, 18 November 2010, 10:00 - 10:45 a.m.Workshop Network Analysis: From Facebook to Google (Netzwerkanalyse: Von Facebook zu Google)What's the best way to distribute news? How can you divide a class into courses that keep as many friends together as possible? What's holding a group of friends together? Social networks are everywhere: Everyone is part of a group of friends and almost everybody is member of the German online network SchülerVZ or another web community. Network analyses deal with the structure of these networks and the role each individual plays in these networks. In this workshop, we want to take a close look at friendship relationship networks: We will simulate an algorithm for evaluating the importance in a network and thus follow in the footsteps of the founders of Google. |
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Thursday, 18 November 2010, 10:00 - 11:15 a.m.Workshop How Question-and-Answer Portals will Replace Conventional Search Engines (Wie Frage-Antwort-Portale klassische Suchmaschinen ablösen)Question-and-Answer portals such as Yahoo Answers and Google Aardvark are about to replace conventional search engines. Here, users ask questions and answer the questions of other users. In this workshop, we explain the basic functionality of Question-and-Answer portals and show possibilities to build trust between the users. Afterwards, you can participate in a game where you can test a live Question-and-Answer portal. In the course of this game, each user can pose questions to other users. If the user answers the questions, the asking user will collect credits. However, posing and answering questions costs credits. Thus, you have to act in a smart way to get as many credits as possible! At the end, the results of the game will be evaluated. |
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Donnerstag, 18. November 2010, 10:30-11:00 UhrStudy information The degree course »Information Engineering and Management« |
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Thursday, 18 November 2010, 11:30 - 1.00 p.m.Lecture Predicting Software Quality Using Mathematical Models (Software-Qualität mit mathematischen Modellen vorhersagen)In this lecture, Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner talks about the current research at the chair of "Software Design and Quality". You can learn how software performance can be predicted without having to code the software. Also, we show the role science plays in software engineering. For this purpose, we explain how theory, mathematics and experiments interact to achieve scientifically tenable results. |
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Thursday, 18 November 2010, starting at 12:15 a.m.Table Talks Information and Advice by Other Students (Tischgespräche: Studierende informieren und beraten aus einer Hand)What's the best way to organise my studies? How can I find a flat? How can I get a job as student assistant? During a cozy (and free!) lunch, students will tell you useful and interesting facts about the Informatics and Information Engineering and Management courses of studies and give insights into the life at the KIT campus. |
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Thursday, 18 November 2010, 2:00 - 2:40 p.m.
Demonstration Students Present Software ProjectsIn the PSE lab, Informatics students learn how to execute a complete software project in teamwork. This lab aims to apply software design and quality assurance methods in practice, to translate their implementation skills into action and to cooperate and share work in a team. In our demonstration, the best teams of the last PSE cycle will present the software they have developed, e.g. a Rubik's Cube for the mobile phone, a software analysing Facebook and co. and a method for signing and processing sales contracts in a digital and secure way. |