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On March 6 and 7, Prof. Horst Schirmeier hosted this year's spring meeting in Dresden, the city of the inventors of the disposable coffee filter and the L4Re microkernel. Six sessions with a total of 14 talks provided enough space to present and discuss current research topics in the context of ope...

On March 2, José Luis Conradi Hoffmann and Leonardo Passig Horstmann, PhD students under the supervision of Antônio Augusto Fröhlich at the Software/Hardware Integration Lab (LISHA) of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianópolis, Brazil, started their one-year research stay at...

All good things come in twos: Once again, our former student employee Henriette Hofmeier was able to win a sponsorship award with her master thesis on the topic "Dynamic Reconfiguration of Hardware-Vulnerability Mitigations in the Linux Kernel", this time the Preis der Fachgruppe Frauen und Technik ...

At the beginning of the lecture-free period, the staff of the two chairs of Computer Science 4 and 16 met for a joint retreat at Drübeck Abbey from February 13 to 15. There, the participants presented their current research work, looked back on the progress in the past year and collected suggesti...

Our former student assistant Henriette Hofmeier has won the ASQF (Arbeitskreis Software-Qualität und -Fortbildung e.V.) Sponsorship Award 2023 with her master thesis on "Dynamic Reconfiguration of Hardware-Vulnerability Mitigations in the Linux Kernel". The thesis was supervised by Timo Hönig, forme...

Three papers with participation of Prof. Rüdiger Kapitza were published at this year's Middleware conference in Quebec City, Canada: SplitBFT: Improving Byzantine Fault Tolerance Safety Using Trusted Compartments by Ines Messadi, EventChain: A Blockchain Framework for Secure, Privacy-Preserving Even...

As a student, Eva Dengler not only supported us as a tutor, but was also involved in the InvasIC research project. On 1st of November, we welcome her as a new research assistant at our chair, where she will work on the adaptation of energy-constrained real-time systems as part of the Watwa research...

The energy crisis requires a comprehensive analysis of electricity consumption in search of potential savings in university facilities. The several dozen desktop PCs at the chair, which are used daily by both students and scientific staff, came into focus. Since remote access (e.g. via SSH) has b...

On September 19 and 20, the fall meeting of the GI Operating Systems Group took place in Erlangen, where current research topics in the German-speaking field were discussed -- with about 120 participants, a new record was set. In three sessions there were a total of 10 presentations on various aspec...

The Adhoc Committee on the Supraregional Research Program in Computer Science of the Federal Ministry of Education and Science recommended the founding of the Chair of Computer Science IV (Operating Systems) in its meeting on March 18, 1970, which was then created by the Bavarian State Ministry of E...