The Swiss banc UBS, one of the leading players in the global financial market, announced a contest on how Web 2.0 may help the UBS. In particular UBS was looking for Web 2.0 concepts between 5 and 10 pages focusing… Continue Reading
Some research has already been done investigating Web-based social networks and its applicability for different tasks such as trust inferrencing with trust networks or collaborative filtering respectively recommender systems. My master student Reto Hodel applied social network analysis to a… Continue Reading
I advised together with Gerald Reif the master thesis of Tobias Bannwart about a personal cross-site movie recommender system that is implemented as Firefox add-on. The add-on is known as OMORE and can be downloaded. We decided to bring OMORE… Continue Reading
Online stores or Web page bring information about a myriad of items such as books, CDs, restaurants or movies at the user’s fingertips. Although, the Web reduces the barrier to the information, the user is overwhelmed by the number of… Continue Reading
Together with Marc Vontobel’s main advisor Gerald Reif, I successfully advised and supported Marc with his bachelor thesis. He was my first student I advised at all. He reenginered Purple Leaf – a party portal – and investigated the impact… Continue Reading
A week ago, the 16th of May, I finished my master thesis about an implementation of a graph-based knowledge browser for a content management system (CMS). Now, I spend time in relaxing and organising my next steps to the future.… Continue Reading
I’m proceeding to the next round in the Imagine Cup 2007 as 3 ranked team. Only 30 Teams with 1-2 persons had the chance to proceed to the next round. This 30 teams were elected by community voting. Only registered… Continue Reading
Based on the graph-browser JSaurus, I implemented Wikigraph, a simple graph-based visualization of the content of Wikipedia.org. Every node in the graph represents a topic. Topics are connected to each other if and only if one topic refers to the… Continue Reading
Jsaurus is a visualization tool to display a thesaurus with its nodes and relations in between. Jsaurus is written in JavaScript and DHTML. The goal of Jsaurus is to provide a piece of softare that manages every type of thesaurus… Continue Reading
An article of Andi Gredig about Students.ch has been published in the 49th release of CASH, a Swiss economic newspaper. Although I’m not one of the founders, I’m on the picture (the 2nd person from right). The article is about… Continue Reading