Computer Science Today: The Facts

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Computer Science Today The Facts

• Who is CS _at_ TU Graz?
• What is CS doing?
• How is CS growing?
• Graduates
• Are there enough young talents?
• Did you know that ?

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7 faculties _at_ TU Graz

• Architecture
• Civil Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering Economic Sciences
• Electrical Engineering Information Technology
• Technical Mathematics Technical Physics
• Technical Chemistry, Chemical Process
  Engineering, Biotechnology
• Computer Science

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7 fields of expertise _at_ TU Graz

• Human- and Biotechnology
• Transportation Science
• Advanced Materials Science
• Sustainable Systems
• Information Communication Technologies,
  Scientific Computing
• Design Construction Science
• Production Science Management

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Computer Science _at_ TU Graz
Information Systemsand Computer Media
KnowledgeManagement
TheoreticalComputer Science
Knowledge Discovery
Software Technology
Applied Information Processing and
Communications
Computer Graphics and KnowledgeVisualisation
Computer Graphicsand Vision
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Personell (full-time equiv. in 2006)
Funded by state
63 Externally funded others 117,4 -gt 65
externally funded personell
Others Externally funded State funded
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Research
IT security, eGoverment,cryptology, trusted
computing
3-D object reconstruction, augmented
reality, computer vision, biometry
machine learning, neuro-informatics, computational
geometry
digital libraries,media technologies,eLearning
model-based design, formal development models
computer graphics, visualisation
knowledge management, semantic web
brain- computer interface
Others Externally funded State funded
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Dynamics 2004 2007 from 11 to 20
R.Posch
KC.Posch
IAIK IICM IGI ICG IST
Maurer
Scerbakov
Andrews
Maass
Aurenhammer
Leberl
Bischof
Wotawa
Slany
in 2004 11 professors 5 institutes
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Dynamics 2004 2007 from 11 to 20
R.Posch
KC.Posch
Rijmen
IAIK IICM IGI ICG IST IWM ISD CGV
Maurer
Scerbakov
Andrews
Kappe
Maass
Aurenhammer
Leberl
Bischof
Schmalstieg

• 6 newly appointed
• 2 funded by foundations

Wotawa
Slany
Tochtermann
Scharl
Fellner
left in 2007
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Dynamics 2004 2007 from 11 to 20
R.Posch
KC.Posch
Rijmen
IAIK IICM IGI ICG IST IWM ISD CGV
Maurer
Scerbakov
Andrews
Kappe
Maass
Aurenhammer
Leberl
Bischof
Schmalstieg

• 6 newly appointed
• 2 funded by foundations
• 2 by association

Wotawa
Slany
Tochtermann
Scharl
Pfurtscheller
Neuper
Fellner
left in 2007 again
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Dynamics 2004 2007 from 11 to 20
R.Posch
KC.Posch
Rijmen
IAIK IICM IGI ICG IST IWM ISD CGV
Maurer
Scerbakov
Andrews
Kappe
Helic
Maass
Aurenhammer
Leberl
Bischof
Schmalstieg

• 6 newly appointed
• 2 funded by foundations
• 2 by association
• 2 by habilitation

Wotawa
Slany
Aichholzer
Tochtermann
Scharl
Pfurtscheller
Neuper
Fellner
left in 2007 again
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Externally funded project volume
17,4 of TU Graz
13,4 of TU Graz
11,3 of TU Graz
Euros
State-funded personell amounts to approx. 8 of
TU Graz
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First-year bachelor students
Informatics Teacher Education Computer
Science Software Development Economy Telematik
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Master theses in CS (Telematik students)
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Did you know that

• the ratio of finished PhDs to finished Masters
  is approx. 16?
• we have had a doctoral college in Visual
  Computing with funds for 14 PhD students since
  2006?
• all CS-influenced curricula have been running
  in Bachelor-Master mode since 2002?
• CS-related programmes at TU Graz were marked
  with Sehr Gut in a ranking with more than 100
  German-speaking universities in the categories
  research output and curricula organisation in
  2005?

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Did you know that

• 16 out of 39 TU-Graz projects within FP6 have
  been conducted within the CS faculty?
• the 2 winning proposals (out of 23 candidates)
  for new national research funding lines within
  FFG (FIT-IT) in 2006 came from the CS faculty.
  These are Trust in IT systems and Visual
  Computing?
• the electronic versions of Brockhaus, Duden,
  Meyer, and Langenscheidt have been made by CS
  professionals from Graz supervised by H. Maurer?

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Did you know that

• R. Posch has been Chief Information Officer of
  Austria since 2001, and Head of Management Board
  of ENISA (European Network and Information
  Security Agency) since 2007?
• F. Leberls Vexcel Imaging GmbH has become
  Microsoft-Photogrammetry to support Microsofts
  Virtual-Earth initiative?
• V. Rijmen is the co-inventor of the world-wide
  encryption standard AES (Advanced Encryption
  Standard)?
• CS professors from TU Graz, lead by W. Maass,
  are the most-cited within the Austrian academic
  CS community?

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