Big Techday 3, May 28th, 2010

Our Conference on Science and IT.

Programme:

Time

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08:30

Admission

09:00

I

Software Engineering

Business Rules Management - Rules Engines in Mobile Communications, Life Insurance, and Health Care

II

Hardcore Coding

Welcome Back, C++

III

Computational Physics

What has physics ever done for IT? - Why IT would be totally different today without physics

IV

Methodology

Real World Scrum

09:45

Time to change rooms

10:35

Coffee break

11:05

I

Software Engineering

Where do software bugs come from?

II

Computer Graphics

Advances in Computer Graphics

III

Machine Learning Methods

Current state of machine learning: Nonparametric Bayesian Methods

Maike Kaufman, Robotics Research Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

IV

Data- and Event Processing

Agile Datawarehousing

11:50

Time to change rooms

11:55

I

Software Engineering

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

II

Computer Graphics

Work hard, play harder - Scalable GPGPU Programming, big Lasers and why I love the Crysis Game Engine

III

Machine Learning Methods

Algorithmic Trading

IV

Data- and Event Processing

#CEP: Complex Event Processing with Twitter

I

12:55

II

12:45

III

12:40

IV

12:50

Lunch - staggered start time for shorter queue

14:15

New Programming Paradigms

The Scala Programming Language

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 und Direktor der "21st Century Defense Initiative" an der Brookings Institution

17:15

Evening break

17:45

Finale with music and lightweight dinner

21:00

End of the event