What might E-Mail look like if it were invented by… Linus Torvalds… the OSS-Community… the XMPP-Guys… or any company without central servers within their buisness plan? To me Google Wave is not much more than an IMAP-Server with integrated CSV-Log and a nice GUI. If you remember Linux Torvalds talk on the GIT at Google [...]

At least German events

GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Future Internet
May 28th, 2009 in Munich, Germany
http://www.docomoeurolabs.de/FI/cfp.html
Deadline: May 6, 2009

9th Würzburg Workshop on IP:
Joint ITG and EuroNF Workshop
“Visions of Future Generation Networks”
(EuroView2009)
July 27th – July 28th 2009 Würzburg, Germany
http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/euroview/2009/
Deadline: May 22, 2009

Die 10 wichtigsten Merkmale eines universitären Fachgebietes:
1. Das Fachgebiet ist die Wahrheit. Die Einsicht, die von der Fachgebietsleitung offenbart wurde, ist heilig und erhaben über jedliche Kritik. Peer-Review sichert die Originalität, Brisanz und den Wert dieser Wahrheit und offenbart die Unzulänglichkeit anderer Meinungen.

2. Das Wissen des Fachgebietes ist hierarchisch und esoterisch. Anfänger erhalten nicht Zugang [...]

POSTDOC AND PHD POSITION IN SECURITY & GAMES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG
“The project aims to develop new approaches to the design and
analysis of secure systems based on the observation that the
security of a system can be considered as the result of a game
between a defender and an attacker of the system. This observation
opens [...]

Yesterday I attended another workshop on “The Future Internet” presented by the GI/ITG KuVS and located at the TH Karlsruhe – or more precisely at the impressive castle of Karlsruhe .
There had been some interessing talks especially about my favorite transport protocol SCTP and the IETF’s first session layer protocol “RSerPool” (IETF charta), which [...]

Osterloh M. / Wagner, Gert G. (forthcoming) Anreize im Wissenschaftssystem, in: Wirtschaftsdienst, Heft 3.

Nachweislich also so gut wie gar nicht

Peer-Review ist meist kaum zuverlässiger als ein Münzwurf. Ihre prognostische Qualität ist sehr gering. Zusätzlich werden die meisten Gutachten nicht von den Professoren selbst, sondern von ihren Mitarbeitern erstellt was die Qualität zusätzlich [...]

Yes, the research buisness can be a really strange milieu
Good to see that some old colleagues try to change this situation by creating some mixture of a social network for researchers, source/bibtex management and knowledge management. It’s called Scholarz (their blog) and is a spin-off of the project “Scientific Work in the Web 2.0″ [...]

If the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) or USRP2 is too expensive you can give the Simple Software Radio Peripheral (SSRP) a try. The primary goal of the SSRP project is to create a low-budget but still modular hardware platform for software design radio purposes (RF signal processing).
Just like the USRP1 the SSRP has a [...]

Some days ago Matt Ettus released the new USRP2 board. It’s the successor of the famous URSP/GNURadio hardware. Some of the USRP2-features:

Gigabit ethernet interface replacing the former USB2 interface
The larger FPGA (Xilinx Spartan 3-2000) containing a 32-bit RISC processor now allows you to do most processing directly within the FPGA
SD-Card for storing configuration, firmware and [...]

After the prove-of-concept of an software defined DVB-T Transmitter there is a new project concentrating on the development of an GSM basestation It’s called OpenBTS and again based on the the GNURadio / URSP hard- and software in combination with asterisk an open source PBX telephony platform. Background information on this project can [...]