Awards

Winner of the AI Mashup Challenge 2009 at the 32nd Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI). The winning AIsearch Firefox add-on can be found here. (Martin Potthast, Alexander Kümmel, Christian Fricke, Christof Bräutigam)

Winner of the second prize of a thesis competition in Middle Germany, sponsored by the Society for the Promotion of Open Source Systems, GAOS e.V. The thesis deals with the automatic detection of edit wars on Wikipedia. (Dennis Hoppe)

Best Poster Award at the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) for a novel approach on vandalism detection in Wikipedia. The paper can be found here. (Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Robert Gerling)

Winner of the $50,000 Spock Data Mining Challenge. Analysis task was a person resolution within 100,000 Web pages, approximately 10 GByte of text. (Sven Meyer zu Eissen, Benno Stein, Steffen Becker, Christof Bräutigam, Tino Rüb, Hagen-Christian Tönnies [picture])

Award of Appreciation for the best paper on the text mining track at the International Conference of the German Classification Society, GfKl. (Sven Meyer zu Eissen, Benno Stein, Marion Kulig)

Special prize at the European Academic Software Award Competition, EASA, for AIsearch. The jury awarded the development, the operationalization, and the integration of new information retrieval research. (Sven Meyer zu Eissen, Benno Stein)

Winner of the German Educational Software Prize DIGITA with the FluidSIM simulation program. The jury awarded the integration of technological expertise within the user interface, as well as the convincing implementation of new problem solving paradigms. (Benno Stein, Daniel Curatolo, Marcus Hoffmann)

World Bronze Award at the World Didac for the FluidSIM simulation program. The jury awarded the excellent level of the implemented technical and didactic competence. (Benno Stein, Daniel Curatolo, Marcus Hoffmann)

Best Dissertation Award of the University of Paderborn. (Benno Stein)

Winner of the innovation competition at the International Conference on Expert Systems with ArtDeco. The program automates the model formation of power plants along with a highly efficient behavior analysis by processing a circuit diagram. (Benno Stein, Daniel Curatolo, Marcus Hoffmann, Ralf Lemmen, Hans Kleine Büning, Michael Suermann)

Special prize of the Electrical Engineering Industry at the competition "Jugend forscht" for new research results in the field of applied pulse width modulation. (Martin Schneider, Benno Stein)

Science ain't all. Various prizes at the music competition "Jugend musiziert" as clarinetist. I am deeply grateful to my parents who gave me the world of music. (Benno Stein)