News Archive 2006

B-IT expands: Two new B-IT professors have recently joined Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology and significantly strengthen its competences in Life Science Informatics and Media Informatics.



Professor Dr. Martin Hofmann-Apitius

Martin Hofmann-Apitius has been appointed Professor in the field of Life Science Informatics at B-IT in September 2006. He earned his PhD at the University of Tübingen in 1991. Afterwards he worked at Institute for Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna and the German Cancer Research Center. In 1998 he changed to LION Bioscience AG. There he expanded his research activities to the area of applied Life Science Informatics. Today he heads the Life Science Informatics Department of Fraunhofer Institute SCAI. His scientific interests lie in Information Extraction/ Semantic Text Analysis, Applied Chemoinformatics, and Semantic Datagrid/ Grid Infrastructure.






Professor Dr. Albrecht Schmidt

Albrecht Schmidt studied computer science in Ulm and Manchester and he worked as a researcher at the University of Karlsruhe and at Lancaster University. There he completed in 2003 his PhD thesis on the topic of “Ubiquitous Computing – Computing in Context”. Before he became professor at the B-IT Center he headed the “Embedded Interaction Research Group” at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. His teaching and research interests are in media informatics and in particular in the area of user interface engineering.

B-IT co-operates with Beethovenfest Bonn 2006 with the presentation of "Personal Orchestra". "Personal Orchestra" is a computer-based, interactive conducting system, giving you the opportunity to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. It has been developed by B-IT Professor Dr. Jan Oliver Borchers, chair of the Media Computing Group Media Computing Group at B-IT. Professor Borchers will explain the system first. Then the audience will be invited to try "Personal Orchestra".

The system user will get a baton fitted with an infrared sensor with which he can conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which is projected with a beamer on a large screen. The Orchestra plays the music according to how they are conducted: faster, slower, louder or quieter. But be aware: If you do not conduct the Orchestra properly, the musicians will complain...

Where and when can you make this conducting experience?

Personal Orchestra
September 14, 2006
7.30 p.m., Hörsaal

Bonn-Aachen International Center
for Information Technology B-IT
Dahlmannstraße 2
53113 Bonn

How to get to B-IT : Please follow this link: How to get to B-IT?

Please note: This presentation will be given in German.

Please download the Flyer (.pdf, in German).