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VUB team attains 2nd place in the Vlaamse Programmeerwedstrijd
On April 18th the 4th edition of the Vlaamse Programmeerwedstrijd (Flemish Programming Contest) was organized at the Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg in Hasselt. More than 500 pupils, students and alumni competed by solving as many problems as they could in 3 hours' time, using computers. Dries Harnie and Joeri De Koster, two doctoral students of our department of Computer Science, attained the second place in the category of "Master students, doctoral students and alumni". They returned home with a nice prize.
The 5th edition of the Vlaamse Programmeerwedstrijd, next year, will be organized by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and will take place on April 17th, 2013.
Ph.D. defense of Wael Al Sarraj
On Thursday March 22, at 4 p.m, Wael Al Sarraj will defend his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "A Usability Evaluation Framework for Web Mashup Makers for End-users". The defense will take place in the Promotion Room, building D, room D.2.01. The promoter of this thesis is Prof. Dr. Olga De Troyer. An abstract is available.
Inaugural lecture by Bart de Boer
On the occasion of his start as a ZAP member of the Computer Science
Department, Bart de Boer will deliver an inaugural lecture on Thursday March
1st, at 4 p.m. in room D.0.05, entitled
"Modelling the evolution of speech".
Best Paper Award for WISE
At the 12th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering
(WISE 2011) in Sydney (Australia) the best paper award went to William Van
Woensel, Elien Paret and Olga De Troyer of the WISE research lab together with
Sven Casteleyn
of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) for their paper "Transparent
Mobile Querying of online RDF sources using Semantic Indexing and Caching".
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