Year: 2023

Just before Christmas, on Wednesday, December 20th, Michael Eischer successfully defended his dissertation Geo-Replicated Byzantine Fault-Tolerant State-Machine Replication with Low Latency on the reduction of latency and latency variants of Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) systems in a geo-replicated...

On Tuesday, December 5, students and staff met up with their partners for a Christmas party at the Aquarium. The past year was reviewed in a convivial atmosphere with excellent dishes and desserts as well as the usual hot drinks for this time of year. The evening was rounded off, in keeping with tr...

On Friday, Andreas Ziegler successfully defended his dissertation Automated Tailoring of System Software Stacks on the application-oriented tailoring of Linux kernel and userspace in Hannover. Since his doctoral supervisor Prof. Daniel Lohmann joined Leibniz Universität Hannover in 2017, Andreas was...

Members of the I4's research staff have recently visited this year's ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'23) in Koblenz. Various talks from different areas of systems research have been presented and discussed at the main conference. Further, I4 staff member Maximilian Ott has pr...

Just in time before the new term starts, Prof. Pascal Felber in cooperation with  ETH Zürich and co-organizers Prof. Rüdiger Kapitza and Prof. Christof Fetzer invite to a Workshop at Monte Verità. From our chair Prof. Rüdiger Kapitza, Thomas Preisner and Maxim Ritter von Onciul participated in the w...

After more than 20 years as a full professor at the Chair of Computer Science 4 at FAU, Professor Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, called wosch, will begin his retirement on October 1. His career began at TU Berlin, where he studied computer science from 1975 to 1981, and earned his doctora...

Our former student assistant Eva Dengler has won the Graduate Award 2023 of the GI Special Interest Group on Operating Systems with her master thesis on "Clock-Tree-Aware Resource Consumption Models for Embedded SoC Platforms". The work was supervised by Peter Wägemann and was part of the DFG projec...

On September 28 and 29, Michael Engel invited to this year's fall meeting of the Operating Systems Group at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg. Under the heading From Programming Languages to Operating Systems, six sessions with a total of 19 presentations provided enough space to discuss the ...

On Monday, Stefan Reif successfully defended his PhD thesis with the topic "Estimable and Scalable Coordination of Multithreaded Processes". Congratulations!

Instead of research projects and lectures, an excursion of our chairs to Franconian Swiss was on the agenda at July 20, taking a kayak tour on the picturesque Wiesent river. Having best weather conditions and framed by a fascinating natural scenery, the trip went from Doos to Muggendorf - mostly on ...