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Humboldt University Berlin

Institute of Informatics

Klaus Bothe

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Agenda

1. Humboldt University and its place in Berlin2. Our Institute – an overview3. Curriculum, SE, Bologna declaration4. Own interests

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Humboldt UniversityTechnical

University

Berlin: three universities

FreeUniversity

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Humboldt UniversityTechnical

University

Universities: complete offer of subjects– and particular strengths

FreeUniversity

Strength: Engineering disciplines

Strength: Medicine

Strength: Social and

Political siences Informatics

MathematicsPhysics

Other natural sciences

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CampusMitte

Campus Adlershof(Natural sciences)

S- Bahn

Konrad Zuse

Center

Locations of Humboldt University

CentralCampus

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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Historical Background

A l e x a n d e r

W i l h e l m

• unity of research and teaching • scientific autonomy

• pioneering new disciplines • 29 Nobel Prize winners

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Students: 38.141

Professors: 560

State-Budget: 389,45 million EUR

Third party funding 2001: 92,9 million EUR

Humboldt-University Today

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Campus Adlershof

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Agenda

1. Humboldt University and its place in Berlin2. Our Institute – an overview3. Curriculum, SE, Bologna declaration4. Own interests

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Computer Science and Mathematics

Johann von Neumann-Haus

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People at the Institute of Informatics

14 full professors 5 special professors

35 academic staff 33 technical staff, administration (secretary)

+ colleagues for third party research projects

1360 students

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Structure of the instituteApplied Computer Science

System Analysis - Prof. Joachim Fischer System Architecture - Prof. Jens-Peter Redlich Theory of programming - Prof. Wolfgang Reisig Software engineering - Prof. Klaus Bothe Data bases and information systems - Prof. Johann Christoph FreytagKnowledge Management in Bioinformatics - Prof. Ulf Leser Artificial Intelligence - Prof. Hans-Dieter Burkhard Data Analysis - Prof. Egmar RödelComputer Science in education and society - Prof. Wolfgang Coy

Parallel and Distributed Systems - Prof. Alexander Reinefeld Specification, Verification and Test-Theorie - Prof. Holger Schlingloff

Knowledge Management - Prof. Tobias SchefferInformation integration - Prof. Felix Naumann

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Structure of the instituteTechnical Computer Science

Computer Architecture and Communication - Prof. Miroslaw MalekSignal processing and pattern recognition - Prof. Beate Meffert

Theoretical Computer Science

Logic in Computer Science - Prof. Martin GroheAlgorithms and Complexity - Prof. Hans-Jürgen PrömelComplexity and Cryptography - Prof. Johannes Köbler

Random Structures and Algorithms - Prof. Anusch Taraz

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The Robocup Projecta paradigm for Autonomous Computing

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Robocup World virtually: 1997 winner , 1998 second; Robocup German Open Robots: 2001 winner, 2002 secondRobocup World Robots: 2004 second

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Agenda

1. Humboldt University and its place in Berlin2. Our Institute – an overview3. Curriculum, SE, Bologna declaration4. Own interests

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All students at the institute at WS 02/03 Informatics (Diploma) 988 Others (Teachers, …) 371 Sum 1359

Beginners Curricula 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 Informatics (Diploma) 254 392 194 188 131 Others (Teachers, …) 131 168 110 113 64 Sum 385 560 304 301 195

Curricula at the institute

Planned capacity: 595

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Number of students at the institute

• First semester

0

200

400

600

1992 1995 1998 2001

Informatics (Diploma)Others (Magister)TeachersTotal

0

500

1000

1500

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

Total number of students

1359

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Structure of the diploma study

Complete study

Basic part(4 semester)

Main part(5 semester)

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First phase of our curriculum

16 68 4 16 14 12 22

14 Seminar: 2

Th 3:

3 + 1

TI 2:

4 + 2 + 1

4. Semester (SS)

18 M 3:

3 + 1

Th 2:

3 + 1

TI 1:

2 + 0 + 1

PI 3:

4 + 0 + 2

3. Semester (WS)

14 M 2:

4 + 2

TI 1:

1 + 0 + 1

PI 2:

4 + 2 + 2

2. Semester (SS)

22 IG: 2 VM 1:

4 + 2

Th 1:

4 + 2

PI 1:

4 + 2 + 2

1. Semester(WS)

Supplement-ary subject

SumothersMathematicsTheoreticalInformatics

TechnicalInformatics

AppliedInformatics

Compulsory courses

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Courses offered at the second phase of the curriculum

• Databases

• Artificial Intelligence

• Software Engineering

• Signal processing

• Reliable systems

• Complexity theory

• Digital Media

• Bio informatics

• Object oriented modeling and specification (SDL, UML)

• …

Optional courses

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Some problems

• Real length of the study: 9 – 20 semester

• Success rate: 25 – 35 %

Reasons: • not always eligible (qualified) students

• high requirements in theoretical CS

• offers by industry for side jobs

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Our institute and the Bologna declaration

2003: introduction of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System)

Credit points

Until 2009: diploma curriculum will be split to Bachelor and Master

At HU and other German Universities

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Agenda

1. Humboldt University and its place in Berlin2. Our Institute – an overview3. Curriculum, SE, Bologna declaration4. Own interests

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Own interests: curriculum vitae

• Study of Mathematics at HU 1970-1974

• Dissertation 1979

• Habilitation 1987

• Full professor 1992

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Own interests: research

• Algebraic specification of abstract data types (until 1982)

• Compiler construction (1982-1990)

• AI, logic programming (1987-1993)

• Software Engineering (Since 1993)

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Own interests: Lectures / Courses

• Compiler Construction

• Logic Programming

• Functional Programming

• Object Oriented Programming with JAVA

• Software Engineering

• Reverse Engineering Project