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Representatives from nine institutions of the DaDiS community met for a two-day workshop in Bielefeld to exchange ideas and define new implementation goals for 2026.

The key topics initiated at the previous workshop in Bochum (March 2025)—the publication of a position paper and the development of a process for founding an association—were successfully completed. Building on this, the Bielefeld...

The Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) participated in the 85th Annual Conference of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), held from March 18–20, 2026, at the University of Göttingen. 

Under the theme “Responsible Innovation – Shaping the Future through Business Administration”, the conference addressed how companies and entrepreneurship can contribute to sustainable...

We are pleased to announce the 1st Call for Participation for the GermEval 2026 Shared Task on Harmful Content Detection in German Social Media, organized as part of KONVENS 2026 and led by Michael Spranger and Melanie Siegel.

In its second edition, the Shared Task focuses on four key challenges in German-language tweets:

Our colleague Katrin Schöning-Stierand from the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) was recently featured on the podcast “Code for Thought.” In the latest episode, she joins host Peter Schmidt to discuss RSE Day 2025 in Hamburg and the growing importance of Research Software Engineering (RSE) for sustainable and future-oriented research.

The conversation covers:

The Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) will be represented at EACL 2026 (European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) with a diverse and impactful portfolio of accepted papers. The contributions span multilingual NLP, low-resource language technologies, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multimodal reasoning, healthcare AI, and large-scale community analysis within...

Science does not only belong in lecture halls — it belongs in classrooms as well. Through the University of Hamburg’s outreach series “Wir wollen’s wissen!”, researchers visit schools to share their work directly with students. As the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS), we actively support this initiative and are pleased that our colleague Marten Borchers contributed this year with insights...

On Wednesday, the final event of the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching project “Data-driven Solutions for the Smart City Hamburg” took place. The format has now been successfully implemented for the eighth time – in close collaboration between Hamburger Hochbahn AG, the University of Hamburg, and the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS).

The course enables students to work on...

At this year’s ICIS – International Conference on Information Systems, the flagship conference of the global AIS community, our paper
“Emergency Management: Designing Situation Maps to Support Rescue Forces during Flood Disasters” was presented by Marten Borchers.

The presentation was delivered on behalf of the co-authors Enrico Milutzki, Lisa Fetzer, Valeria Magdych, Eva Bittner, and Martin...

The Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) at the University of Hamburg is proud to be part of the newly approved long-term research project “Middle Low German Grammar”, funded under the Academies Programme with €11.88 million over a period of 18 years (2026–2043).

The project explores the Middle Low German language, which was widely...

On 25 November 2025, the Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) at the University of Hamburg took part in this year's PIER Day on the DESY campus in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. The HCDS was represented by its Scientific Director, Prof. Chris Biemann, who engaged in discussions with stakeholders from research and infrastructure about future collaborations in the field of AI & data science during the...