Courses in winter term 2015

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Here are the courses I give this winter term, starting this week:

620.005 Introduction to computer science (exercises)
621.704 Computer organization (lab)

Students access the course material through non-public Moodle. If you are not enrolled to these courses but are interested in the course material (available in German only), please drop me an e-mail.

Call for Master Thesis on Biomedical Concept Detection

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Update: The master thesis has been assigned to Florian Winkler as of June 26, 2014.

This is a call for a master thesis on biomedical concept detection.

Abstract:
Detecting biomedical concepts in text documents or queries is a useful tool for improving biomedical information retrieval or navigating biomedical document collections. Known successful techniques for biomedical concept detection rely on natural language processing and/or machine learning and incur a substantial processing overhead at the document indexing stage compared to keyword-only indexing.
The goal of this master thesis is to evaluate a novel efficient concept detection algorithm based on position-dependent keyword matching on a recent public biomedical data set. Concepts are taken from a biomedical thesaurus called Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Results should be compared to the accuracy achieved by the well-known MetaMap concept detector.

Courses in summer term 2013

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Here are the courses I give this summer term:

621.171 Distributed systems lab
621.401 Compiler construction lab
621.402 Compiler construction lab

Students access the course material through non-public Moodle. If you are not enrolled to these courses but are interested in the course material, please drop me an e-mail.

E-learning video system

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I just announced a development project for bachelor students (Softwarepraktikum) at the TEWI blog. The project goal is to build a video system for recording and documenting courses to support our e-learning department. Please see the link above for details (in German) or drop me an e-mail if you are interested.

Reversi game projects in Software Engineering course

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The 4 Scrum teams finished their Reversi game (aka Othello) projects in my Software Engineering 2 course with great success. The game software developed includes features like hot seat and network modi, different levels of difficulty, speed gaming, and even voice control. Some teams agreed to make their software available online:

Team 2 user software (13 MB) / full source code (41 MB)
Team 3 user software (38 MB) / full source code (91 MB)
Team 4 user software (50 MB) / Reversi home page

Congratulations!