Big Techday 3 on Friday, May 28th, 2010

The TNG Big Techday 3 took place on Friday, May 28th, 2010, centrally in Munich at the HVB Forum. We'd like to thank all participants.

Programme:

Time	I	II	III	IV
08:30	Admission
	Software Engineering I	Hardcore Coding	Computational Physics	Methodology
09:00	Business Rules Management - Rules Engines in Mobile Communications, Life Insurance, and Health Care Dr. Sebastian Stamminger, TNG	Welcome Back, C++ Robert Pintarelli, TNG	What has physics ever done for IT? - Why IT would be totally different today without physics Dr. Christian Kaiser, TNG	Real World Scrum Dr. Martin Wagner, TNG
09:45	Time to change rooms
09:50	Surviving Architecture Lars Jankowfsky, CTO, swoodoo AG	Code Kata Rene Scheibe, Jake Benilov und Christoph Stock, TNG	The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) (in English) Prof. Steve Rawlings, PhD, Astrophysics Department, Oxford University; previously chair of the international science working group of the square kilometer array	Scrum/Kanban Gerhard Müller, TNG
10:35	Coffee break
	Software Engineering II	Computer Graphics	Machine Learning Methods	Data- and Event Processing
11:05	Where do software bugs come from? Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller, Universität des Saarlandes, Software Engineering Chair	Advances in Computer Graphics Prof. Dr. Marc Stamminger, Universität Erlangen, Chair for Graphical Data Processing	Current state of machine learning: Nonparametric Bayesian Methods Maike Kaufman, Robotics Research Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford	Agile Datawarehousing Dr. Robert Dahlke and Jake Benilov, TNG
11:50	Time to change rooms
	Which is the best programming language?, or: There's nothing like a well-groomed prejudice, or: Truth is stranger than fiction Prof. Dr. Lutz Prechelt, professor of Informatics and Head of the Software Engineering Research Group at Freie Universität Berlin	Work hard, play harder - Scalable GPGPU Programming, big Lasers and why I love the Crysis Game Engine Dr. Michael Bussmann, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Laser Particle Acceleration Division	Algorithmic Trading Dr. Bernd Schönwälder, Managing Director, Nickwoods GmbH	#CEP: Complex Event Processing with Twitter Stefan Kirsch and Christoph Stock, TNG
	12:55	12:45	12:40	12:50
	Lunch - staggered start time for shorter queues
14:15	The Scala Programming Language Prof. Dr. Martin Odersky, EPF Lausanne, ACM Fellow, co-designer of Java generics, inventor of Scala
15:30	Coffee break
16:00	Artificial Intelligence goes Mainstream: Wired for War - The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century (in English) Dr. Peter W. Singer, Senior Fellow and Director of the "21st Century Defense Initiative" at the Brookings Institution
17:15	Evening break
17:45	Finale with music and lightweight dinner
21:00	End of the event