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❕ You still have three weeks to submit full papers to MuC 2026. "Transforming Interactions" is the theme of this year. We especially invite contributions that explore how digital technologies influence individual, social, and societal changes, provide examples of interactive technologies that facilitate transformations, or critically reflect on the futures of interactions within HCI. But not only - check the full call in the link below. Accepted papers will be published on the ACM DL

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This could be interesting for those in the DH bubble as this position (E13, 100%, 3yr) is in "the research project WIEGE, we will investigate the spread of claims and political narratives across different social media platforms in an interdisciplinary consortium. 👇

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Consistently high value work from Alex on what’s working and what’s not for people building with LLMs. A great example of how to push hard-won knowledge and skills back along the adoption curve.

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#5QW: Five Questions with Guillaume Bellec and TU Wien Informatics "I love to demystify things, making complex things simple. I’m curious about how things work and enjoy finding logical explanations." Guillaume Bellec is Assistant Professor at the Research Unit #MachineLearning at TU Wien Informatics. His current project, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, explores how #AI can be leveraged to decode the functioning of the brain using electrophysiological recordings. Follow along with this series as we introduce the experts shaping the future of our faculty: 👉  https://lnkd.in/dvs9w6nr #TUWienInformatics #Professors #AcademicExcellence #people #community 📸 ©️ TUWien Informatics

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We’re happy to share that ZKSC 2026 - the Workshop on Zero-Knowledge, Succinct Proofs and Symmetric Cryptography - successfully took place on February 9–11, 2026 at Technische Universität Wien Organized by Elena Andreeva and Georg Fuchsbauer, the workshop brought together researchers from two worlds that are increasingly intertwined. 💡 Why this matters For years, ZK and symmetric cryptography developed along different paths - one rooted in complexity theory and provable security, the other in symmetric design and cryptanalysis. Today, modern privacy-preserving systems depend on both. The efficiency and security of proof systems are tightly linked to the symmetric primitives underneath them. ZKSC 2026 was designed to spark exactly this dialogue - and it delivered 🔊 🎤 Inspiring speakers & deep discussions We were honored to welcome an outstanding lineup of speakers, including Lorenzo Grassi, Ziyi Guan, Abhishek Jain, Dmitry Khovratovich, Ngoc Khanh Nguyen, Michele Orrù, Léo Perrin, Christian Rechberge, Arnab Roy, Markus Schofnegger, Stefano Trevisani, Justin Thaler, and Ivan Visconti. Across three days, we explored recursive proof systems, lattice- and hash-based constructions, arithmetization-oriented primitives, algebraic cryptanalysis, implementation challenges, and post-quantum security. The breakout sessions sparked particularly lively exchanges 🔥 🤝 Collaboration at the core Beyond the talks, the workshop created space for real conversations - in breakout rooms, over coffee, and during the social dinner. New research questions emerged, collaborations were initiated, and bridges were built between communities. 🙏 Support The workshop was embedded in the activities of Cybersecurity Center TU Wien and the Austrian Science Fund FWF-funded SPyCoDe project, with additional support from the Ethereum Foundation. It contributed to TU Wien’s ongoing efforts to strengthen its research profile in cryptography, security, and privacy technologies. 👉 Full program, abstracts, and details: https://lnkd.in/dD8ejRwg 👏 A big thank you to all speakers, participants, and partners for making ZKSC 2026 such a vibrant and successful event. We’re already looking forward to the next edition 🚀

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Calling All language enthusiasts, AI researchers and open source contributors. I am happy to announce a new dataset that i have been working for a while in, shared in Albanian, English and German, that has been designed to help LLM models and researchers working with languages that do not often appear in AI. My contributions are made up of more than 250 sample translation triplets in 20+ categories, powerful preprocessing tools for machine learning use, a visualization dashboard and support for varied formats such as OpenAI, HuggingFace and CSV files. Why this matters: Albanian is an underrepresented language in AI/ML datasets. This project helps bridge that gap while advancing multilingual translation research and making AI more inclusive for Albanian speakers worldwide. How YOU can contribute: Add new translation pairs, Review and improve existing translations, Enhance visualization/preprocessing tools, Improve documentation & examples, Report data quality issues. Tech Stack: Python, Streamlit, HuggingFace, OpenAI formats, Interactive Plotly dashboards. You can find the dataset here: 🔗 GitHub:

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Very glad to have my #EMNLP2025 EmoBench-UA benchmark covered by TUM Campus Heilbronn 🎉 It was such a nice project to contribute for the Ukrainian language. We still missing many NLP benchmarks for it. At least, we closed the gab for basic emotions detection! To train models on language- and cultural-specific real data is still a must for proper human-centred #AI. The full paper: https://lnkd.in/d6fGfsVC 🤗 space: https://lnkd.in/dBQDmY_c Paper webpage: https://lnkd.in/dU-8yWyn

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National Repository Infrastructure and Open Access Challenges: The Croatian Perspective This paper presents the Croatian national repository infrastructure as a case study, offering insights for comparison with similar national infrastructures. The study employs a quantitative research approach, divided into two parts to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state and future development of repositories in Croatia. The first part analyses quantitative data and repository statistics. The DABAR infrastructure currently comprises 182 repositories and hosts over 249,000 digital objects, yet only slightly more than 50% of them are openly accessible. To investigate the reasons behind the high percentage of restricted or closed-access objects, a survey was conducted among institutions that primarily deposit such items. https://lnkd.in/e_AZQQtB

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Against "AI Welfare" Continued Today I was invited to give a talk at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, where I spoke on a short comment article I co-authored titled "Against AI Welfare" (link below). Since the piece itself is very brief, I ended up expanding the talk to include why I think the topic matters in a broader political and ethical context. I thought I would share some of that talk here. We are watching very powerful institutions—people with billions and trillions of dollars of economic leverage—tell the public that AGI is coming, that it is inevitable, that we must pursue it at all costs, and that we must do so before our geopolitical rivals do. It is being framed as a new Manhattan Project, the next nuclear arms race, where not pursuing AGI is seen as irresponsible. And layered onto that, the very same actors are also telling us that AGI may produce artificial beings capable of suffering, maybe billions or trillions of them, and that minimizing that suffering is our greatest moral responsibility. And from that, you get a very convenient conclusion: that investing money in the poor, in climate mitigation, in healthcare, in public welfare, in humanitarian aid, is morally misguided, because the real moral stakes lie in preventing future artificial suffering. And once you see that narrative, you see how smoothly it functions as a justification for abandoning care for actual living beings who are vulnerable right now. Importantly, the analogy between AGI and the nuclear bomb is false. It is not just misleading; it is wrong. When the physicists developing the atomic bomb said the bomb was inevitable, they were relying on well-confirmed mathematical physics, grounded in theories that had endured decades of experimental challenge. When people today say that AGI is inevitable, they are basing that claim on scaling curves for machine learning models whose underlying behavior we barely understand, trained on data we do not fully control, built on concepts—like intelligence—that do not have stable definitions in science. To say these two cases are equivalent is simply not serious. One was the result of a mature scientific understanding of matter and energy. The other is, at least at present, a mixture of hype, economic incentives, speculation, and very powerful marketing. We did not arrive at the point where the world speaks of AGI as inevitable because the science compelled us there. We arrived there because a massively successful media narrative was constructed around a chatbot by a company whose founder dropped out of college and whose business model depends on convincing the world that intelligence is scalable on demand. Hype is not how we learn what is true about the universe. So to conclude: the question of AI welfare is not merely theoretical. It is already shaping how we think about care, priority, resource allocation, and global ethics. Thank you for reading. #AIWelfare #AIEthics #AI #Ethics #Philosophy https://lnkd.in/d5Qd8V6h

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Spec-driven development with coding agents: does it kill agile methods and bring us back to waterfall? That’s the question Wolfgang Strunk left us with at the end of his guest lecture today about agile architecture, which I had the pleasure of hosting. I’m closely watching and actively participating in the changes coding agents are bringing to our daily work. They’re powerful tools with real potential to boost productivity, but they also come with challenges that teams will need to navigate carefully. So, will agile methods survive? I believe they will. Iterative processes remain essential since we still need to fully understand what customers and users actually want (as opposed to what they think they want). That said, the way we practice agile will likely evolve. It will be fascinating to see how teams navigate this transition, integrate new tools, and what it means for software engineering in practice. What do you think will change? My guess: documentation will rise in value as it sets the context for coding agents. #Agile #SpecDrivenDevelopment #CodingAgents #SoftwareEngineering #FutureOfWork #AIinSoftware

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Building for Quantum: on quantum computing, technological infrastructures, and speculative artistic approaches Quantum computing is emerging not only as a scientific revolution, but also as an architectural challenge and a cultural imagination. In this conversation, TU Wien HPC professor Ivona Brandic joins architect and researcher Marina Otero and artist-filmmaker Manuel Correa, moderated by curator Ana Prendes. The discussion centres on Building for Quantum (2025), Otero and Correa’s film following the construction and ambitions of Spain’s first quantum computing facility at the Quantum Basque Centre. With billion-euro investments and uncertain timelines, the implications go far beyond science — from the material and energy demands of protecting fragile qubits to the need for artistic and critical tools to understand quantum reality. Together, the speakers explore the physical, philosophical and speculative dimensions of quantum architecture. Speakers: Ivona Brandic in conversation with Marina Otero Verzier and Manuel Correa Moderator: Ana Prendes (Arts at CERN) @ CIVA Link to panel recording: https://lnkd.in/dym-Vvs8 Link to Marina's and Manuel's movie teaser: https://lnkd.in/dvm9f-dU

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Understand Duetsch's Algorithm in an Easy Way One key to learning quantum algorithms is to understand Deutsch's algorithm fully. For undergraduate students, it is a tough mountain to pass. The problem is to "Determine if a one-bit to one-bit function f is constant, i.e., f(0)=f(1), or balanced, f(0) != f(1), using fewer evaluations than classical methods." My strategy is to digest that in the easiest way. See attached picture. One can see many details of the algorithm. Thinking about the rest of the proof for \Psi_3. (We want to conclude that the final measurement at the first qubit line is 0 for the constant function f. ) Other detailed explanations can be found at: https://lnkd.in/eSEjAJev

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Proud of my team at Fakultät für Informatik der Universität Duisburg-Essen for their remarkable work on Educational Knowledge Graphs and Graph RAG in our collaborative and personalized MOOC platform CourseMapper, which will be presented at this year’s European MOOCs stakeholders Summit #EMOOCs2025 in Paris.   1️⃣ Qurat Ul Ain will present our paper “Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Approaches for Automatic Educational Knowledge Graph Construction in CourseMapper”. In this work, we propose and compare top-down and bottom-up approaches for automatic #EduKG construction and evaluate their effectiveness in capturing and structuring knowledge concepts from learning materials in #CourseMapper. 📄 Paper Preprint: https://lnkd.in/efriJWJX   2️⃣ Mohamed Abdelmagied will present our recent work “Leveraging Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Support Learners’ Understanding of Knowledge Concepts in MOOCs”, where we propose a Graph RAG pipeline that leverages Educational Knowledge Graphs #EduKG and Personal Knowledge Graphs #PKG to guide learners to understand knowledge concepts in #CourseMapper. 📄 Paper Preprint: https://lnkd.in/ekA_H4SR   ➡️ CourseMapper: https://coursemapper.de/   Looking forward to potential collaborations and discussions at #EMOOCs2025 to promote the development of AI-enhanced MOOC platforms and shape lifelong learning for all in the era of AI.   #EdTech #OnlineLearning #LifelongLearning #AIED #RAG #GraphRAG #KnowledgeGraphs #EduKG #PKG #MOOCs #CourseMapper

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Sometimes papers take different directions before they are published. And sometimes that's not a bad thing, because in the end things come together in a way they couldn't have before. Elke Schuessler's and my work on Kafka and Organisation Studies is one such example, which seems almost more relevant now than when we started it many years ago. Check it out if you are interested in how Kafka and his work as a ‘bureaucrat-novelist’ can help us to understand current organisational phenomena.

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Worth considering - do AI Coding tools actually improve performance? Well maybe not, at least if you are an experienced developer: https://lnkd.in/eXiNZZVC Although it is just one observation I'd expect more research/analysis popping up, indicating that it is not the miracle cure. In the end it is (just) another tool which has it's pros and cons. For me personally AI coding tools are really helpful and improve my performance quite a bit but I'm not an experienced developer 😅 And even then debugging the resulting code can be quite time consuming because you have to think it through after all...

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A Literature Review on the Challenges of Applying Test-Driven Development in Software Engineering Daniel Staegemann, Dr. Matthias Volk, Maneendra Perera, Christian Haertel, Matthias Pohl, Christian Daase, Klaus Turowski  https://lnkd.in/djctk9qF DOI: https://lnkd.in/dxAfCxf6 #TestDrivenDevelopment, #TDD, #Testing, #SoftwareEngineering, #LiteratureReview, #QualityAssurance

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Roman Machacek (University of Bern) is presenting the paper "The Impact of Fine-tuning Large Language Models on Automated Program Repair" (co-authored with Anastasiia Grishina, Max Hort, Leon Moonen) at the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) 2025 conference (https://lnkd.in/dXvNXDBA). Link to the paper: https://lnkd.in/d_N9sw-E

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👩‍🔬 Have you spotted her on billboards around #Braunschweig? At #TUBraunschweig, Assistant Professor Jana Raupbach is spearheading food toxicology research with advanced analytical methods and state-of-the-art laboratories. 🔬 Her goal: close critical data gaps on how processed foods truly impact human health. Why her work matters 🧬 Mapping protein transformations: How do heat, pressure & enzymes reshape protein structures? 🦠 Tracking gut metabolites: Which bioactive compounds arise during digestion - and what are their health implications? 📊 Building robust evidence: Assessing absorption and effects of food components to clarify links to chronic disease risk. Key research highlights 🩺 Interdisciplinary integration of chemistry, nutritional science & medicine 💡 The intestine as a “reaction vessel” for biotransformation processes 🌱 Plant-based alternatives (vegan milks & meat analogues) as model systems for processing-ingredient interactions "What I find so exciting about Food Chemistry is that it is a topic that affects us all on a daily basis," says Jana Raupbach. "We make hundreds of decisions every day when it comes to our food and food intake. It's a very exciting field in which to provide education." In our #CollaborationBoostsScience initiative we show the faces behind our research. In these videos our researchers let you get a glimpse behind the scenes and talk about their passions and what drives their work. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dda88T_q 🎥 Transmedial/TU Braunschweig #GemeinsamWissenSchafftMehr

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