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9 December 2024|Event

Public Lecture: AI and the Future of Work

Debates about the future of work and AI can easily swing between panic and optimism. In order to guide innovation towards the creation of a better future of work, we need to theorize around the fundamental values at stake in work, and how AI can help or hinder them. In her lecture on December 9, 2024, Prof. Dr. Kate...

Prof. Walid Maalej and Prof. Emitzá Guzmán Ortega

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15 August 2024|Informatik

Another Most Influential Paper Award for the Department!

For the second year in a row, Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej (Applied Software Technology (MAST)) received the Most Influential Paper Award (MIP) at the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’24).

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16 July 2024|Informatik

Invitation to the Memorial Service for André van Hoorn

We were all deeply shocked when we learned of the much too early death of our colleague André van Hoorn. For the entire department, this loss is painful and leaves us saddened. In addition to our grief, we also feel gratitude for the privilege of having known André as a colleague, lecturer, and above all, as a person. To...

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25 June 2024|Event

Cancelled: Public Lecture: Repairing AI for Environmental Justice

Please note: the lecture had to be cancelled! In her talk on June 25, 2024, Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe (Universität Bonn) will outline a definition of Sustainable AI as an umbrella term to cover two branches with different aims and methods: AI for sustainability vs the sustainability of AI.

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8 June 2024|Informatik

André van Hoorn has passed away

Prof. Dr.-Ing. André van Hoorn has passed on June 8th, 2024 following a serious illness.

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23 January 2024|Event

Webinar: Artificial Intelligence as Philosophical Disruption: Understanding Human-Technology Relations after the Digital Revolution

"Taming the Machines" concludes this winter term with a lecture by Prof. Dr. Peter-Paul Verbeek (UvA) on January 23, 2024. In his talk he will explore phenomenon of ethical disruption in detail, by investigating the various ways in which technologies – and not only human beings – can be ethically significant. Breaking the...

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Welcome to the Department of Informatics

The Department of Informatics in the School of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences at the Universität Hamburg is one of the largest Informatics departments in Germany, excelling in teaching and research by means of a broad and modern profile. We offer a variety of interesting Bachelor and Master programs. Our aim to provide high quality teaching is enhanced by a system of student evaluations and top-level research.

Our research activities cover a wide range of areas, cooperating with partners from science and industry both at national and international level. Our International Transregional Collaborative Research Centre (TRR) on “Crossmodal Learning (CML)” and our technology transfer organization “Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center (HITeC) e.V.” are particularly noteworthy examples.

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Research

Each workgroup und professorship is assigned to one of three priority areas:

Human-Centered Computing (HCC) is especially dedicated to the obtainment of knowledge in semi-natural and technical systems, the design of adaptive, autodidactic systems and the design of Human-Computer Interaction.

Complex Systems Engineering (CSE) focuses on developing large software applications and infrastructures. The control of complexity and reliable operation are important aspects in this respect.

Computing in Science (CIS) comprises the activities of the department in such areas as High Performance Computing, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, and Big Data.

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Studying

At the Department of Informatics 26 professors do research and teach supported by approximately 230 employees in research, technology and management. More than 2550 students are educated in 5 Bachelor and 6 Master degree courses, including two English research-oriented Master courses “Intelligent Adaptive Systems” and “Data Science and Artificial Intelligence”.

The role of computer science is to support and assist people in dealing with increasingly complex tasks and processes. Systems should remain manageable and understandable: technology has to adapt to human beings, not vice versa.

Research and teaching at the Department of Informatics places human beings at the center of the three principal informatics tasks: analysis, design and construction.

Studying Information Systems

Studying information systems in Hamburg? In a short video, Larissa Gebken tells us how she came to information systems via her business studies and is now a doctoral student researching ways of using IT in order to help people (in German).