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During the week of September 8–12, our employees Harald Böhm and Paul Bergmann took part in the 3rd ACM Europe Summer School on Distributed and Replicated Environments (DARE 2025) in Lisbon, Portugal. The program included exciting lectures on topics such as conflict-free replicated data types (...

On September 23 and 24, 2025, our employees Eva Dengler, Thomas Preisner, and Peter Wägemann attended the 1st Zephyr in Science and Education (ZiSE) Conference in Jena. The focus was on Zephyr in science and education, creating the perfect setting for establishing links between research and applica...

On 22nd September 2025, Phillip Raffeck successfully defended his dissertation with the title Predictable Execution for Device-Bound Embedded Systems with Intermittent Power. Dr. Peter Wägemann had the honor of being the doctoral supervison for the first time. The examination board, chaired by Pro...

Markus Gerber presented the evolution of his bachelor's thesis at LCTES 2025. The resulting paper, entitled "vNV-Heap: An Ownership-Based Virtually Non-volatile Heap for Embedded Systems," uses ownership (as implemented by Rust, for example) to implement memory virtualization (i.e., the swapping of ...

We are excited to announce two open research internship positions -- each offering a clear path to a fully-funded PhD position for successful interns upon completion. These six-month internships provide an outstanding opportunity for motivated graduates in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or ...

The I4 was able to score three papers at the Workshops associated with EuroSys/ASPLOS. Dustin Nguyen presented his work Honey, I Shrunk the Guests (Best Paper Award) on deploying virtualisation extensions to observe processes at the HCDS workshop. Also, at the HCDS workshop, Thomas Preisner publ...

To our great pleasure, the master's thesis "Clock-Tree–Aware Resource-Consumption Models for Embedded SoC Platforms" by our colleague Eva Dengler was awarded WITA 2025 prize for the best master's thesis of the Fachgruppe Frauen und Informatik. The thesis was supervised by Peter Wägemann and Simon S...

From 25 to 28 February, the members of the Chair of Computer Science 4 (Systems Software) met for their annual retreat at the Abtei Frauenwörth (https://www.frauenwoerth.de/) on the Fraueninsel at the Chiemsee. In numerous presentations, the participants shared their research ideas and overall pr...

In the first week of December, Laura Lawniczak and Maximilian Seidler attended the Middleware conference in Hong Kong. Maximilian, together with Kilian Müller from LITES, presented their paper NimbleNet: Serverless Computing for the Extreme Edge in Factory Environments at the WoSC workshop. Laur...

On Tuesday 17 December, students and staff met with their partners for a joint Christmas party at the department. The past year was reviewed in a festive and relaxed atmosphere. This year, the chair staff also took care of the preparation of the main course themselves, so that two large pots of ch...