Kategorie: ‘Events, Anniversarys & Success’
IT Center Annual Review 2024
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The year 2024 is drawing to a close – a year full of exciting projects, successful collaborations and unforgettable moments at the IT Centre. From innovative events and new partnerships to internal team celebrations and significant changes and new ones, the year was characterised by growth, collaboration and joint development. In our annual review, we take a look at the highlights, changes and successes that made our year so special.
New Year at the IT Center: Together into 2025
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The IT Center wishes all readers a happy new year! Just as you, dear reader, have probably been thinking about good resolutions that you want to try to realise in 2025, we have also made some plans for 2025: Together with you, we want to implement exciting projects, drive forward digital innovations and make IT services even more user-friendly.
Advent Door #4: The IT Center Christmas Party 2024
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We open the last Advent door and share some insights into this year’s Christmas party.
On December 13, 2024, it was that time again: the annual Christmas party took place and brought together the IT Center staff, alumni and family members to end the year together. With a festive atmosphere, good food and exciting activities, it was an all-round successful afternoon and evening!
Advent Door #3: Christmas Cookies
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In the last parts of our Advent series, we presented you with Christmas recipes and tricky puzzles. Today it’s all about cookies – both the delicious ones from the Christmas bakery and their digital namesakes from the IT world. Discover exciting information and fun word games on the subject.
Milestone Reached: The Coscine Word Mark Is Officially Registered!
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From an idea to an established platform: the history of Coscine is a chronicle of progress in research data management. The registration of Coscine as a word mark marks another high point in this success story. But how did it actually come about? In this blog post, we give you an overview of the origins and milestones of Coscine.
Put me There: Teleportation in VR
Source: Put Me There Project
Virtual reality (VR) has developed into a promising technology that opens up new ways for people to interact with digital content. By putting on VR glasses, users are immersed in a virtual 3D environment that they can explore through natural body movements and direct interaction with their hands. In addition to games, VR is already being used successfully in a variety of ways, for example to train new skills, support medical procedures, preserve cultural heritage and evaluate architectural designs, to name just a few of the different areas of application.
However, most virtual environments in the various application areas are larger than the physical area in which a user can move around with VR glasses. Therefore, navigation techniques that move the user’s position through the environment purely virtually are crucial to enable unrestricted exploration.
Carnival at the IT Center: Ready for the Clownish Season!
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The fifth season is just around the corner, and at the IT Center we can hardly wait to celebrate these colourful days in style! Carnival is not only a time of celebration, but also a wonderful opportunity to experience community and admire the creative costumes of our colleagues. The festive season begins on November 11 at 11:11 am.
CLAIX-2023: A Milestone for Research
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October 23, 2024 marks a significant day for us: It was with great joy that we inaugurated our High Performance Computer CLAIX-2023! This modern system marks a significant advance for High Performance Computing and is available to researchers at RWTH and all German universities.
RWTH Welcome Week – On Site For You!
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This year, RWTH Aachen University is once again welcoming new international students with the traditional Welcome Week. The events offered them an ideal opportunity to get to know the services and processes at RWTH better.
We at the IT Center were also there on September 25, 2024, as a point of contact at the Freshers’ Fair as part of Welcome Week. In this blog post, you can find out how the successful exchange with students went.
IT Center Oktoberfest 2024
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On September 27, 2024, the IT Center celebrated Oktoberfest 2024, which was opened by the management with warm words. Professor Matthias Müller opened the celebration with a short speech and got the guests in the mood for the festive occasion.
A special highlight of the event was the tribute to Daniel Bündgens, who celebrated his 25th anniversary of service. With warm words, congratulations and a small gift, he was honored for his many years of loyalty and commitment to the IT Center.
