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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
2025-10-06 Probevortrag: Bachelorarbeit Sönke Holz
2025-10-07 Vortrag Masterprojekt: RobustThemis Raphael Stellwag
2025-10-14 BA-Vortrag: Interrupt-Handling im JITTY-OS Sönke Holz

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...