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We are happy to announce that another two of our female researchers at Informatik 5 and Fraunhofer FIT have accomplished professorship positions.

Yongli Mou, Jiahui Geng, Xiaoli Yang, Shijie Nie, Chunmiao Li, Yongzhao Li and Lucas Regh (AISpace team) won the best technical implementation award and won the industry challenge at the Blockchain Hackathon 2021 (https://www.blockchain-hackathon.de/). AISpace team presented the idea to combine blockchain, privacy-preserving computation and semantic web technologies to overcome the data privacy challenges in AI, to build an AI digital asset marketplace, to connect data owners, data users, algorithm developers, algorithm users and computing providers, to encourage the corporation between AI service participants, and to establish the decentralized, autonomous and trustworthy AI infrastructure network.

Lars Gleim, Leon Müller, Florian Brillowski, and Stefan Decker won the Best Poster/Demo Award at the SEMANTiCS2021 Conference (Amsterdam, Netherlands) for their paper “Capturing Provenance Information in the File System”.

MIT Press returned the copyright for our textbook “Metamodeling for Method Engineering” to its editors Manfred Jeusfeld/Skövde University, Matthias Jarke/RWTH Aachen University, and John Mylopoulos/University of Toronto.