[AK-MI] Einladung zum WIT-Kolloquium mit Alan Bundy, Koautor der "Researchers Bible" am 28.6.05

[Elske Ammenwerth]

Das Wissenschafterinnenkolleg Internettechnologien der Fakultaet fuer
Informatik der TU Wien 
laedt gemeinsam mit der Oesterreichischen Computer Gesellschaft zu den
folgenden beiden 
Vortraegen ein:


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Alan Bundy
University of Edinburgh, UK

Datum: Dienstag, 28. Juni 2005  
Uhrzeit: 9:30 - 12:00 +
Ort: Technische Universitaet Wien, Informatikhoersaal, 1040 Wien,
Treitlstrasse 3, Erdgeschoss


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TITEL:
How to Get a PhD in Informatics?
The Need for Hypotheses in Informatics 

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ABSTRACT:

"How to Get a PhD in Informatics?" This practical guide to the pitfalls and
obstacles to getting a PhD 
in Informatics is based on the "Researchers Bible": a living document
originating in the Department 
of Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh and based on the accumulated and
hard won experience of a 
wide range of researchers. Learn about "postgraduate diseases", their
diagnosis and cure. 

"The Need for Hypotheses in Informatics" All branches of science and
engineering advance by the 
conjecturing of hypotheses and the accumulation of evidence to support (or
refute) them. This is also 
true of Informatics, but explicit hypotheses are rarely stated in
Informatics papers and evaluations of 
Informatics systems and techniques are rarely linked to such hypotheses. Our
hypothesis is that 
this neglect of explicit hypotheses is the root cause of much of the poor
methodology and rejected 
papers and grant proposals in Informatics. We will give examples of the
kinds of hypotheses that 
arise in Informatics and the kind of evidence that is required to evaluate
them.

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Bio:
Prof. Alan Bundy was educated as a Mathematician, obtaining a 1st class
honours degree in 
Mathematics in 1968 from Leicester University and a PhD in Mathematical
Logic in 1971, also 
from Leicester, under the supervision of Prof. R.L. Goodstein. Since 1971 he
has been at the 
University of Edinburgh: initially in the Metamathematics Unit, which in
1972 became the 
Department of Computational Logic, in 1974 was absorbed into the new
Department of Artificial 
Intelligence and in 1998 was absorbed into the new Division of Informatics. 
Prof. Bundy's research has entailed the building of a number of problem
solving programs for 
different branches of mathematics, namely number theory, algebra, mechanics,
ecological 
modelling and logic/functional programming. He is the author of a book on
the automation of 
mathematical reasoning, the editor of three books on artificial intelligence
and joint author of one 
book on ecological modelling and one on the social impact of knowledge-based
systems. He is 
the sole or joint author of over 140 published papers and books.

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KONTAKTPERSON AN DER TU WIEN:

Dr. Beate List
list at wit.tuwien.ac.at, Tel. 58801-18830

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UNTERSTUETZUNG:
WIT wird gefoedert aus Mitteln des Europaeischen Sozialfonds und aus Mitteln
des 
Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur. Die Finanzierung
dieser Veranstaltung 
erfolgt durch die freundliche Unterstuetzung der Erste Bank. 

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ANMELDUNG
Wir bitten um Anmeldung unter http://wit.tuwien.ac.at/events.

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HINWEIS:
Vortrag in englischer Sprache; Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos.  
Im Anschluss an den Vortrag gibt es bei einem Buffet die Gelegenheit zum
informellen Meinungsaustausch.

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