The Department 4

Professors

• Peter Martini
• Michael Meier
• Matthew Smith
• Wolfgang Koch
• Frank Kurth
• Michael Clausen
• Christoph Strelen

Secretary

CS 4 in a nutshell

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We are surrounded by networks: The Internet, home networks, in-car networks, high-speed networks, sensor networks and others. These networks allow computers, human beings, mobile devices and other "things" to communicate - i.e. to exchange data - and to coordinate their activities.

The result is an exciting world of virtualization and cooperation where physical proximity becomes less and less important: All around the world, people interact and play online games with people they have never met in real life. Services like file storage, computation, banking and shopping are provided from almost anywhere. On the other hand, the network of services and opportunities comes along with a network of attackers and threats: Millions of PCs have become parts of botnets, zombie computers controlled remotely. Attackers hiding tens of thousands kilometers away, enjoy round trip times to and from their unsuspecting victims of just a few hundred milliseconds.

At the Institute of Computer Science 4, we address a wide range of hot topics in the exciting realm sketched here. In close co-operation with Fraunhofer FKIE we reach out to application-oriented research in our region. Numerous joint research activities with Fraunhofer and project-based cooperative research with key players such as German Telekom and institutions such as BSI allow both our staff and our students, to work on next generation prototype systems. In addition, we are active in basic research efforts funded by the DFG (the German Research Foundation), by the EU and others.