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Established in 1972, managed from 2002 in the second generation until the end of September 2023 and now in the third generation since October 2023, the chair Department of Computer Science 4 deals with fundamental issues relating to the complexes of system software that supports programs or applications and facilitates the programming or operation of computing systems, monitors and controls the execution of programs, operates computing systems reliably and efficiently in a specific manner and implements an abstract machine with all these characteristics — a layer of software, commonly referred to as the operating system or middleware. In this sense, teaching and research at the chair is generally geared towards a resource-aware systems programming in terms of space, time and energy for stationary, mobile, embedded or centralized or distributed systems, whose individual nodes are typically parallel computing systems in the form of multi- or many-core systems.

Talks

Date Title Speaker
2026-04-28 Probevortrag: WASM-WCET: Worst-Case Execution-Time Analysis of WebAssembly Modules on Updatable Resource-Constrained Embedded Devices Maximilian Seidler
2026-04-28 Probevortrag: SOLID - Simple, Optimised, but Lazy IOMMU Invalidation for Linux Ferdinand Schober
2026-05-05 MA-Vortrag: A Comparative Evaluation of Emerging eBPF-Sandboxing Approaches Milan Stephan

From March 3 to 6, the staff of the Chair of Computer Science 4 (System Software) gathered in Sulzbürg for their annual retreat. In numerous presentations, the participants shared their research and progress from the past year as well as their plans for the coming year, which consistently sparked...

We are excited to announce a new student scholarship opportunity during summer 2026. This scholarship is initially granted for up to 3 months. The scholarship provides an outstanding opportunity for motivated students in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field who are eager to gai...

On February 16, Laura Lawniczak successfully defended her dissertation titled "Practical State-Machine Replication for Small-Scale Systems" (Praxisnahe Ansätze für Zustandsmaschinenreplikation in kleinskaligen Systemen). In addition to her doctoral advisor Prof. Dr. Tobias Distler, who leads the ...

The Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), which is the premier conference in the field of real-time systems, took place in Boston, MA, from December 2 to 5. The Embedded Systems Software Group has contributed to this venue with two publications: First, the collaborative work between TU Dortmund and ...