[Acpc-l] Einladung zum Informatik-Kolloquium Prof. Dieter W. Fellner

[Werner Purgathofer]

Der Fachbereich Informatik und die Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft
laden zu folgendem Vortrag ein:
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Professor Dieter W. Fellner
Technical University of Braunschweig

Datum:  Montag, 15. März 2004
Uhrzeit: 17.00 Uhr pünktlich
Ort:    Hörsaal EI 9 (Hlawka-Hs), TU Wien, Gußhausstr. 27-29, Erdgeschoss

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TITEL: Digital Libraries: What Type Of Documents Should We Be Dealing With?
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ABSTRACT: As if large collections of purely textual documents would not 
still pose
a rich set of research challenges (i.e., robust and reliable algorithms
for structuring, content extraction and information filtering) for
generations of researchers this presentation advocates a change in the
interpretation of the term ’document’: Rather than seeing a document in
a classical context of being a ’paper’ predominantly compiled of text
with a few figures interspersed we recommend to adopt a more general
view which considers a ’document’ as an entity consisting of any media
type appropriate to store or exchange information in a given context.
Only this shift in the document paradigm will open new application
fields to Digital Library (DL) technology for the mutual benefit of DL’s
and application domains: DL’s offering an unprecedented level of
functionality and (new) application domains (e.g., digital mock-up in
engineering) benefiting from a more powerful DL technology.
According to a study by Lyman et al [3] the world produces between 1 and
2 exabytes (i.e., 10^18 bytes or a billion gigabytes) of unique
information per year. From that vast amount of data printed documents of
all kinds only comprise 0.003%. The major share being taken by images,
animations, sound, 3D models and other numeric data. Of course, a large
an increasing proportion of the produced material is created, stored and
exchanged in digital form -­ currently ranging at about 90% of the
total. Yet, little of this information is accessible through Digital
Library collections.
This presentation gives a motivation for a ’generalized view’ on the
term document and raises several issues stimulating research work in the
field of Computer Graphics to make Digital Libraries of the future more
accessible.

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Kurzbiographie zu Professor Dieter W. Fellner
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Dieter Fellner is a professor of computer science at the Technical
University of Braunschweig and founding director of the Computer
Graphics Institute at this university. Previously he has held academic
positions at the University of Bonn, Germany, the Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Canada, the University of Denver, Colorado, and the
University of Technology in Graz, Austria.

Professor Fellner's main research and project areas over the years were
formal languages, telematic services, user interface design, software
engineering, computer graphics, and, most recently, digital libraries.
As principal investigator he is leading a strategic initiative on
Digital Libraries since Fall 1997 funded by the German Research
Foundation (DFG) over a period of six years - currently funding 21
research groups. He has written a widely used book on Computer Graphics
(1988, 2nd ed. in 1992) and recently co-authored a book with A. Endres
on Digital Libraries (2000).

He has regularly served on editorial boards of leading journals in
computer graphics and in digital libraries as well as on program
committees of international conferences and workshops in these areas. In
1997 and again 2003 he was program co-chair of the EUROGRAPHICS
conference. He also serves as advisor to the German Scientific Council, the 
German
Science Foundation (DFG), the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (bmb+f), and the European Commission (DG INFSO).

Weitere Informationen über den Vortragenden finden Sie auf
http://graphics.tu-bs.de

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Kontaktperson an der TU Wien: Prof. Dr. Werner Purgathofer,
                               Tel. 58801-18648, email wp@cg.tuwien.ac.at

Die Finanzierung dieser Veranstaltung erfolgt durch die OCG,
das Institut für Computergraphik und Algorithmen und die TU Wien
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Der Fachbereich Informatik erhält Sponsorgelder u.a. von
      - Siemens AG Österreich
      - Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf
      - Sun Microsystems
      - Caramba Labs Software AG
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