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Project PropStop explains social bots at the FTOJ 2017
The research project PropStop presented a workshop on social bots at the FTOJ 2017 (Frankfurt Day on Online-Journalism) on April 25, 2017. Dr. Christian Grimme and Dr. Mike Preuss gave a 90-minutes talk on the potentials, threats, and future developments in the context of social bots. Additionally, they demonstrated simple ways to develop an own social bot.
The FTOJ is a one-day conference for online journalists hosted by the Hessische Rundfunk (Hessian broadcasting) and the Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd) since 2004.
Girls'Day 2017 am Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen unserer Systemadministration
Am heutigen Girls'Day stellt unsere Systemadmininstration interessierten Mädchen den Beruf der Fachinformatikerin vor. Neben der Vorstellung des Berufs und einem Einblick in die tägliche Arbeit eines Fachinformatikers, wird auch die heutige Client- und Servertechnik präsentiert. Die Teilnehmerinnen nehmen dabei einen Computer auseinander, tauschen Teile aus und bauen ein kleines Netzwerk mit Client und Server auf.
Try our HTC Vive!
Reality sucks - get virtual!
We offer to our staff and students to use a HTC Vive for one hour! The room is available until further notice during lecture time Tuesdays to Thursdays between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. The room is located at Leonardo-Campus 3 and can be used by 3 people in parallel at max.
CrowdEquality: Idea Crowdsourcing Platform developed at the Department of Information Systems is ‘live’
Within the EQUAL-IST project (“Gender Equality Plans for Information Sciences and Technology Research Institutions”, funded by the EU in the Horizon 2020 programme) an idea crowdsourcing platform has been developed by the team of eight Information Systems Bachelor students as part of their project seminar in Winter Semester 2016/17.
BENTELER: Engineering Expertise with home ground in Paderborn
Clear values. Clear objectives. Our way”, that´s BENTELER- Groups´ philosophy, but what does it mean exactly? The Chair for Information Systems and Supply Chain Management and a group of students from the Chair´s lecture “Supply Chain Management” have taken a closer look to find out more about the company.
Prototype award at the WI conference in St. Gallen goes to Münster
With their talk " One Plug at a Time - Designing a Peer-to-Peer Sharing Service for Charging Electric Vehicles" in the prototype session, the Crowstrom team won the prototype award at this year's WI conference in St. Gallen.
CeBIT-Tickets for free
This year’s CeBIT – the world‘s leading fair for information technology – takes place from March 20th to 24th 2017 in Hanover. As co-exhibitor at the NRW joint stand (hall 6, stand E29/C30), the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) owns a limited amount of free tickets (e-tickets). If you are interested in a ticket, please send an e-mail to cebit[at]ercis.de. We will send you an activation code.
Arvato supports pioneering research into Omni-Channel communications strategies
Arvato CRM Solutions (Arvato), the leading customer relationship management company, has partnered with the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) at the University of Münster, to create the ERCIS Omni-Channel Lab. The new Lab combines ERCIS’s established academic research network and teaching facilities with Arvato’s practical expertise of handling 1.7 million Omni-Channel interactions every day for many of the world’s best-known brands. This means that it’s perfectly placed to research innovative solutions and new concepts for Omni-Channel communication challenges.
Visit at the HSE Moscow and Nizhni Novgorod
Prof. Becker visits the Higher School of Economics to extend collaborations
In November 2016 Prof. Jörg Becker again visited the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow and Nizhni Novgorod. The aim of his visit was to further strengthen the collaborations of the WWU Münster and the HSE. Both Universities are eager to continue the double degree in Information Systems and are interested in additional joint efforts.
Top results for the WWU students at the Logistics Masters Competition 2016
1600 students, 70 questions and one big goal - over a period of 6 months, expectant bachelor and master students of Germany´s best logistic departments and universities of applied sciences fought fiercely to reach the top league of the “Logistics Masters 2016”. Issued by the magazine “Verkehrsrundschau”, this competition is a questionnaire based test of logistic knowledge. Framed by well-known professors it has become one of the greatest and trickiest tests throughout the whole year.