The Johannes Kepler University has always been known for more than just engineering and has a reputation for tradition, technological creativity and accomplishment.
The Linz Institute of Technology, or simply LIT for short, brings these ideals together, becoming the place where tradition meets the future. Researchers from different departments and across faculties in the field of technology and engineering can come together and connect here. Many internationally active companies are involved, providing their support as cooperation partners in order to drive research of tomorrow.
Teaching and research go hand-in-hand at LIT. JKU scientists conduct cutting-edge research and pass their expertise on to the next generation. Students "learn by doing" and are actively involved in conducting 'the research of tomorrow'. All subject areas and departments at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences work together here.
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This year's pre-selection competition for the 2024 Danube Cup took place at the LIT Open Innovation Center on March 20, 2024. Four JKU start-up teams took part in order to qualify for the pitching competition in May. Under the direction of Univ. Prof. Dr. Elisabeth S.C. Berger, the pre-selection competition took place as part of the course, "Innovation & Entrepreneurship".
AI expert Prof. Sepp Hochreiter has been elected as a corresponding member to the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
For decades, Volkshilfe has been a pivotal institution in Austria's socio-political landscape, providing people with support during difficult times and in particularly vulnerable life circumstances. Faced with an ever more apparent increase in inequality as a result of the climate crisis, the Volkshilfe is now turning its attention to socio-ecological issues.
Together with Diana Tran Nhat and Timm Teubner (Technical University Berlin), Laura Thäter recently published an article titled "The Duality of Reputation Portability: Investigating the Demand Effect of Imported Ratings Across Online Labor Markets" in the journal Electronic Markets.
The paper investigates the impact of reputation portability on demand across online labor markets, particularly as to how introducing reputation portability affects the demand for workers and influences imported ratings on the demand. The findings suggest that while imported ratings stimulate demand, their effect is lower compared to on-site ratings, raising concerns about potential unintended consequences, particularly favoring workers who have high rating volumes.
The article is part of a special issue about social welfare computing and is openly available (open access).
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The JKU is hosting this year's prestigious Danube Cup Pitching Competition at the LIT Open Innovation Center. Following a national pre-selection procedure, each of the eight partner universities in the Danube Cup network will be sending two student start-up teams to Linz to battle it out for the coveted trophy.