VSR News 2023

Today and yesterday, we participated in the CONVERSATIONS '23 Workshop in Oslo which connects researchers around the world who work on Chatbot and Conversational Agents. At the workshop we presented our paper "In Search of Dark Patterns in Chatbots". It is written together with colleagues from Lifia at Universidad Nacional de la Plata and offers new insights into the existence of Dark Patterns in customer service chatbots. The presentation is accessible here.

Further information and the paper preprint are available on the workshop homepage.

Today, VSR attended the 4th annual meeting of the SaxFDM initiative, exchanging knowledge and discussing future activities in the area of Research Data Management with participants from all mayor research institutions in Saxony. The fruitful discussions about technological, organizational and regulatory aspects of providing Research Data infrastructures and consulting to researchers further strengthens our ongoing activities in the context of TRR HYP*MOL and the establishing of TUC's research data platform, TUCdata.

For further information about the SaxFDM initiative, visit the SaxFDM website.

The exam review for the exams written in the summer semester 2023 will again be held online. Starting from today until October 25 2023 at 23:59, we will provide you the possibility to register online for the exams you want to review.
Please use the following link for the registration, by specifying the exam you want to review:

https://mytuc.org/kjzx

Please note that registration for the exam review is required for organizational reasons. Furthermore, we do not disclose sample solutions during the exam review.

The actual exam review will take place in presence on Oct 26 2023 at 11:30-15:00 and Nov 02 2023 at 15:00-17:00. You can freely choose, when you want to come in for the review, although you can do so only once. Please consider that each review per exam takes probably about 10 minutes. Thus, arriving later than 10 minutes to the end you might have no chance to review anymore. This adds up accordingly if you want to review more than one exam.

The exam review will take place in the FRIZ computer pool A11.201 (old: 1/B201). Please bring your student ID and wait for the door as you will be let in one by one. More information on the process of the presence exam review can be found in the edu FAQ. If you have further questions after reading the FAQ, you can send your question by mail to us via vsr-edu@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de.

We are happy to announce that we help building trustworthy and green AI in the context of the EU funded ENFIELD project!

As a part of the Excellence Alliance "European Lighthouse to Manifest Trustworthy and Green AI" (ENFIELD) , our VSR professorship collaborates with over 30 other research institutions of 18 different countries to work towards the goal of human-centered and trustworthy AI.

We welcome back all our students of Chemnitz University of Technology that will participate in one of our courses from the professorship for Distributed and Self-organizing systems (VSR) in winter semester 2023/2024.

Information on the courses, exercises and seminars will be shared via OPAL and our educational websites. Please register for the respective OPAL courses to stay up to date.

We are pleased to announce that we are part of the TRR HYP*MOL!

The TRR HYP*MOL spans across many different universities with a research focus on hyperpolarization in molecular systems, starting in October 2023.

As a service project within the TRR, our VSR professorship establishes non-invasive infrastructure for Research Data Management suitable for interdisciplinary and cross domain research.

We are happy to currently have Dr. Julián Grigera with us for a resarch visit. From this cooperation, we could offer students insights into his research areas and started a shared publication between members from our professorship and his research group LIFIA from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

Edit: Meanwhile, the paper was presented at CONVERSATIONS 2023 in Oslo and is published in the workshop proceedings.

We will offer a new, more timely appointment for the second Exam Review. It will now take place on May 30 2023 from 14:00 - 18:00.

Take note that the previously planned appointment for June 16 is thus cancelled!

For the procedure and further information, please have a look at the previous news announcement about the exam review from May 02 2023.

The exam review for the exams written in the winter semester 2022/2023 will again be held online. Starting from today until May 09 2023 at 23:59, we will provide you the possibility to register online for the exams you want to review.
Please use the following link for the registration, by specifying the exam you want to review:

https://mytuc.org/kjzx

Please note that registration for the exam review is required for organizational reasons. Furthermore, we do not disclose sample solutions during the exam review.

The actual exam review will take place online on May 11 2023 at 14:00-18:00 and June 16 2023 at 09:00-12:30 (see current news). You can freely choose, when you want to join in for the review, although you can do so only once. Please consider that each review per exam takes probably about 10 minutes. Thus, joining in later than 10 minutes to the end you might have no chance to review anymore. This adds up accordingly if you want to review more than one exam.

Please use the following BBB link for entering the session https://webroom.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de/gl/seb-gop-rr6-qkz. When you click on this link, you will be placed in a waiting room, which states “Wait until the moderator gives you permission”. This is a first come first serve procedure. If you receive a timeout notification, please refresh the page. Don't worry if there is no change in the waiting room status for some time! Once it is your turn, the moderator will let you in the BBB-room automatically.

Please also have a look into our EDU FAQ for full guidance on the exam review process and its rules you have to agree on before joining. If you have further questions after reading the FAQ, you can send your question by mail to us via vsr-edu@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de.

We welcome back all our students of Chemnitz University of Technology that will participate in one of our courses from the professorship for Distributed and Self-organizing systems (VSR) in summer semester 2023.

Information on the courses, exercises and seminars will be shared via OPAL. Please register for the respective OPAL courses to stay up to date.