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Discovering the Basics of Computing with the Informatics Beaver Competition
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- 11 October 2022
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- sidm
- 25 November 2022
Balzert Award 2022
This year’s Helmut and Heide Balzert Award for outstanding contributions to the teaching and the Didactics of Informatics has been given to Stefan Seegerer. Award ceremony on September 29, 2022 in HamburgMiddle: the award winner Stefan Seegerer.From left to right: Martin Glinz (SI Board Member), Helmut and Heide Balzert (Award […]
• Communication •
- sidm
- 25 November 2022
GI Dissertation Award for 2021
This year’s GI Dissertation Award has been given to three PhD students who have defended their thesis in 2021. Award ceremony on September 29, 2022 in HamburgMiddle, from left: the winners Markus Hecher, Moritz Lipp and Alejandro Molina Ramirez. Left: Jörg Desel (GI Vice-President), Martin Glinz (SI Board Member). Right: […]
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- Susanne Datzko
- 11 October 2022
Discovering the Basics of Computing with the Informatics Beaver Competition
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- Nataliia Stulova
- 11 July 2022
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