News and Announcements

  • Talk by Prof. Wieringa

    September 1, 2014: Prof. Roel Wieringa from University of Twente, Netherlands will give a Talk entitled "Design science research in information and software systems engineering". The talk will take place on October 16th, 9:00 am in 3W03, ICT Building
  • Paper accepted for WONS 2014

    January 24, 2014: Our paper "Supporting Platooning Maneuvers by IVC: An Initial Protocol Analysis for the Join Maneuver" has been accepted for WONS 2014, held in Obergurgl, Austria.
  • Paper accepted for ICC 2014

    January 13, 2014: Our paper "Towards Energy Efficient Smart Phone Applications: Energy Models for Offloading Tasks into the Cloud" has been accepted for ICC 2014, held in Sydney. The paper has been written as the outcome of the collaboration with the University of Bolzano for the EN-ACT project.
  • Dagstuhl Seminar Report

    January 17, 2014: Michele attended the 2013 Dagstuhl Seminar on Inter-Vehicular Communication. A publicly available report of the seminar has been published here. Michele contributed on the section regarding Field Operational Tests. For further information on the seminar, visit the seminar webpage.
  • VNC 2013 Best Paper Award

    December 17, 2013: The paper in collaboration with Bastian Bloessl, Christoph Sommer, and Falko Dressler received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2013 held in Boston.
  • Michele Segata joins University of Trento

    October 1, 2013: After one year and a half in Falko Dressler's group in Innsbruck, Michele Segata will join the group of Professor Renato Lo Cigno at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of the University of Trento, in order to continue pursuing his joint PhD program with the two universities.
  • BIT PhD school article on iPoint

    October 10, 2012: iPoint, the web portal for news of the University of Innsbruck, has published an article about the BIT PhD School and ITS projects carried on by Universities of Innsbruck and Trento. Read the article here.
  • Talks by Dr. Irit Hadar

    September 18, 2012: The dates of the talks by Dr. Irit Hadar have finally be made official. Dr. Hadar will give the first talk entitled The unreasonable power of intuitive thinking: Reason and intuition in software engineering on October, 25th at 10:00. The second talk, entitled Software architecture in agile development, will be held on October, 29th at 10:00. Both talks will take place in room 3W03.
  • Visit by Dr. Irit Hadar

    September 17, 2012: Dr. Irit Hadar, from the Department of Information System of the University of Haifa, Israel, will visit Innsbruck from the 24th of October till the 6th of November. She will work with Prof. Barbara Weber, the Quality Engineering group and will give two talks entitled The unreasonable power of intuitive thinking: Reason and intuition in software engineering and Software architecture in agile development. She will also visit Trento and Bozen Universities.
  • Seminar by Prof. Brian Fitzgerald

    April 27, 2012: Prof. Brian Fitzgerald from the University of Limerik, Ireland, will give a talk entitled Outsourcing to an Unknown Workforce: Exploring Opensourcing as a Global Sourcing Strategy in the ICT building the 7th of May.
  • Seminar by Prof. Renato Lo Cigno

    April 24, 2012: Prof. Renato Lo Cigno from the Department of Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento gives a seminar talk about their ongoing research in the field of real-time peer to peer video streaming. The talk takes place on Wednesday the 16th of May at 12.15 at the CCS Lab.
  • BIT Web Site introduced

    April 17, 2012: The BIT PhD School finally has its own web site.
  • Michele Segata joined BIT School

    April 2, 2012: We welcome our new member Michele Segata. He graduated from University of Trento, Italy and is continuing his research activities on inter-vehile communication protocols funded by the BIT PhD School. (link)
  • Visit by Prof. Jay Tashiro

    January 24, 2011: Prof. Jay Tashiro from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) will visit the Quality Engineering research group of Prof. Ruth Breu in March.
  • Visit of Prof. Patrick Hung

    November 24, 2010: Prof. Patrick Hung from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) will visit Prof. Ruth Breu in January (2011) in order to establish a Student Exchange Agreement between Universities of Innsbruck and UOIT.
  • Visit of Prof. Bruce White

    October 1, 2010: Prof. Bruce White from the Quinnipiac University (Hamden, Connecticut) will visit Prof. Fahringer in November for preparing a Fullbright Specialist Program Stay.
  • BIT Seminar by Prof. Izhak Rubin

    May 2, 2010: Prof. Izhak Rubin from UCLA will give the talk entitled Cross Layer Networking Across Mobile Wireless Networks. The talk will be held on 01/06/2010 in room 3W04, at 14:00.