Faculty of Informatics, TU Vienna

The Faculty of Informatics is one of eight faculties at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), which carries out research in informatics and business informatics.

Informatics and business informatics are young and innovative disciplines which play a central role in our modern information society. The application of these disciplines, information and communication technologies (ICT), is gradually penetrating into all areas of life and evolving at a rapid pace. The development and use of ICT is affecting not just business and administration but the personal lives of a growing number of people.

The key role of informatics calls for intensive efforts in research and teaching. The Faculty of Informatics strives to play an active role in national and international research. Its activities are guided by the principles of academic excellence, the networking of research and teaching, and by a sense of awareness for the social responsibility it has.

The faculty consits of seven institutes and the central services “Office of the Dean” and the “Coordination and Communication Center”. The major fields of studies are computer science and business informatics, which are the biggest and fourth biggest courses of study, respectively, at Vienna University of Technology. The five main research areas are Distributed and Parallel Systems, Computational Intelligence, Business Informatics, Computer Engineering, and Media Informatics and Visual Computing.

News

Call for Papers: CloudComp 2012 in Vienna. 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing on September 24th-26th, 2012.
Mon, March 12, 2012 — Forschung, Konferenz

Events and Dates

"What I have done right with my startups". Peter Lieber. — Peter Lieber, entrepreneur of the software company LieberLieber, talks about ups and downs, and about the daily challenges as an entrepreneur during the last twenty years.
Fri, June 1, 2012 17:00 –20:00 — TU Wien, Zemanek-Hörsaal — Lehre, Vortrag

14th EuroVis 2012 Conference on Visualization. Visualization has become an increasingly important research area due to its wide range of applications in many disciplines. In 2012 the 14th main conference and the third international EuroVA Workshop take place in Vienna.
Mon, June 4 – Fri, June 8, 2012 — Tech Gate Vienna, Vortragssaal 0.1 — Konferenz