Talents in Touch 2009
Wednesday, 07/22/2009, 23:17:31
A few weeks ago, I applied for an opportunity to participate at this years "Talents in Touch 2009" program of the Deutsche Telekom. Themed "Shaping tomorrow's world", the event provides students in the last year of their study the chance to get insight into the telecommunication's world, especially Deutsche Telekom.
In workshops and other activities with top managers of Telekom, 60 students all over the world will have the opportunity to talk about trends and newest researches, experiences and career opportunities. The event will take place from October 16th to October 18th in Barcelona.
More information on the link below:
After successfully applying and going through an English phone interview, I can happily say that I am one of the lucky 11 students taking part at this year's "Talents in Touch". 190 students applied for this opportunity only in Germany. And it makes me more happy to know that I am one of the Top 11 chosen by Deutsche Telekom.
What I expect from the event is that I get to know a lot of interesting people, widen my social network, learn from the experiences of the top managers and see, what my career chances are.
By the way, I never visited Barcelona, but the city interests me a lot! And the hotel, in which we are going to stay does not look bad at all!
You are going to get more information about the event, when I'm there. Wish me luck!
FOKUSday 2009
Friday, 06/19/2009, 22:41:33
Yesterday, it was time for the "FOKUSday 2009" in our institute. All competence centers presented their research activities and projects. It was really amazing to see on what kind of projects our institute is working currently.
For more information, take a look at the "FOKUSday 2009 Flyer" of our competence center.
In the evening, we all went to a beach bar, where we ate, drank and showed our skills in a kicker game.
Scenario and Product Categorization
Saturday, 05/30/2009, 21:58:54
The scenario of my Master thesis is based on the recommendation of groceries by considering the special eating habits and contextual information of the users:
Bob is vegan and he emphasizes eating healthy food and buying organic products. He enters the desired groceries into the shopping list of the mobile application. Since the special eating habits "vegan, organic" are stored in his profile, the software recommends products for each entry in the shopping list, which fit to his profile. Furthermore it shows, which grocery stores nearby offer these products. In addition, the mobile application considers ratings given before by other users, so that Bob only gets products recommended, which were rated well by them. After buying these groceries, he as well can rate them.
To be able to realize this scenario, it is very important to find a suitable way of storing and categorizing groceries together with their ingredients. After doing research on the web and asking several grocery stores, I have found the following interesting sites:
It is not very easy to find ingredients for groceries on the web, so the best way of getting information on ingredients is to go the grocery store.
Special eating habits are characterized in that way that certain product categories or certain ingredients are not suitable for some consumers. That's why, products and their ingredients have to be connected with user preferences. Semantic ontologies provide a good way of doing that, because they allow to define restrictions on certain classes. Examples for food ontologies are:
