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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...

This year's Herbsttreffen of the SYS division took place at the University of Stuttgart on October 24 and 25. On October 24, the Fachgruppen “Betriebssysteme" (FGBS) and “Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" (KuVS) first met for a joint meeting, at which the Townhall Meeting of the SYS department...

Last month, Luis has presented his recent work on improved Spectre mitigations for Linux eBPF at Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) and the 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID’24) (the former being located in Vienna, Austria and the latter in Padua, Italy)...

Last week, Eva Dengler took part at the ECRTS in Lille, France. She presented our work "Crêpe: Clock-Reconfiguration-Aware Preemption Control in Real-Time Systems with Devices", written together with Peter Wägemann. The paper targets the optimization of time-critical real-time systems with device ...

The third edition of the HotCarbon workshop takes place today in Santa Cruz, California. Our chair participates with the paper "CO2CoDe: Towards Carbon-Aware Hardware/Software Co-Design for Intermittently-Powered Embedded Systems", for which Phillip Raffeck recorded a video talk. With the help of an...