Research

The research carried out by the Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology is primarily application-oriented fundamental research. Thereby, the Faculty puts an emphasis on scientific research as opposed to pure development work. Notwithstanding, it also has a long and successful tradition of project partnerships with industry. Research activities are governed by the principles of academic excellence by international standards, the freedom and independence of research and teaching and an interdisciplinary approach. The Faculty's main areas of research include Distributed and Parallel Systems, Media Informatics and Visual Computing, Computer Engineering, Computational Intelligence as well as Business Informatics.

Applications such as financial transfer, e-commerce, transport, the environment etc., although only recently emerged, have already become key areas of informatics research – and new applications are emerging all the time. Generally speaking, we are seeing a marked trend towards ever larger, more integrated and more pervasive IT systems and ‘systems of systems’. The particular challenges this presents include the increasing complexity and constant evolution of these systems, their security, their reliability and their integration.

Main Research Areas

The five main research areas are Distributed and Parallel Systems, Computational Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Media Informatics and Visual Computing as well as Business Informatics.

Awards

The recognition given to the work of the Faculty of Informatics, and its scientific excellence, is reflected by numerous awards, accolades and appointments to prestigious committees. Here are just a few examples.

Wittgenstein Award, FWF Austrian Science Fund: Georg Gottlob (1998)
START-Program, FWF Austrian Science Fund: Ulrich Schmid (1996) und Dieter Schmalstieg (2002).
Full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: Georg Gottlob, Hermann Kopetz
Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: Thomas Eiter
Eurographics Distinguished Career Award: Werner Purgathofer (2006)
Technical Achievement Award IEEE Computer Society: Hermann Kopetz (2005)
Best of the Web, Best Overall Museum Web Site: Christian Breiteneder (2001)
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow: Mehdi Jazayeri (2007)
ECCAI (European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence) Fellow: Thomas Eiter (2006), Georg Gottlob (2002)
Eurographics Fellow: Werner Purgathofer (1997)
IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) Fellow: Walter Kropatsch (1994)

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