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Alexander Neumann and Aaron Conrardy, from the Chair of Databases and Information Systems at RWTH Aachen University, have been honored with a “Special Honorable Mention” Award at the 22nd International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2023) held in Sydney, Australia, from November 26th to 28th, 2023.

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Benedikt Hensen and Konstantin Kühlem have been awarded the “Best Paper Application Award” at the 13^th International Conference on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL) for their work “Collaborative Learning in Mixed Reality using WebXR and H5P”.

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Benedikt Hensen has been honored with the “Best Academic Reviewer Award” at the 9^th International Conference on the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN 2023) which was held at the California Polytechnic State University in San Lius Obispo, CA, USA.

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Lasse Nitz and Avikarsha Mandal have been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2023 European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference in Stavanger, Norway (June 14th – 15th) for their work “DGA Detection Using Similarity-Preserving Bloom Encodings”.

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Johannes Theissen-Lipp and Stefan Decker from i5 hosted the full-day “Semantics in Dataspaces” workshop at ACM’s The Web Conference in Austin, Texas, on 30 April 2023!

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The RWTH Campuslauf 2023 kicked off the summer semester with a burst of team spirit and friendly competition. Among the many participants were Sascha Welten and Alexander Neumann, members of the i5 group, who proudly represented their team, “Eat Pasta Run Fasta,” at the event.

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On March 15, 2023, NRW Minister of Culture and Science Ina Brandes reappointed Professor Matthias Jarke to the Board of Governors (Hochschulrat) of Cologne University of Applied Technology Arts, and Sciences (TH Köln) for the period 2023-2028. On March 15, the newly appointed board re-elected him for a second period as Chairman of the Board.

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Priv.-Doz. Dr. Ralf Klamma ist im Alter von 55 Jahren nach schwerer Krankheit am 23. Januar 2023 verstorben.

Our augmented reality learning game “Tower Learn” by Benedikt Hensen, Anna Perret, Yanxi Liu, Emilie Hastrup-Kiil, Julian Staab and Ralf Klamma has won the second place in the student category of the GALA 2022 Serious Games Competition out of 45 submissions. We presented the serious game at the GALA conference in Tampere, Finland.

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