The two-day course “Fundamentals of Image Processing with Photoshop” was added to GWDG´s course program 2017 in the short term. The course is held in English und takes place on 26./27.09.2017 in GWDG´s course room. Further information can be found in GWDG´s course program.

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On 05.07.2017 between 5:00 p.m. and approx. 6:30 p.m.  the GWDG trouble ticket system OTRS will be under maintenance. While it still will be possible to send requests as usual to our service hotline at support@gwdg.de, no automatic responses or ticket processing will take place, so some delays may be expected. Additionally the OTRS web interface https://support.gwdg.de will be unavailable during maintenance. In matters of

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All webpages of https://www.gwdg.de are available again without restrictions.

The June issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

 It contains among others the following topics:

• A wide Range of Statistics Programs on GWDG Servers
• Programming Exercises for GWDG Trainees
• Secure Data Center Interconnects
• Use of the Printserver gwd-winprint.top.gwdg.de with macOS

>> Click here for the GWDG News 6/2017

On June 10th 2017, the IdeenExpo, Germany’s largest youth event for science and technology, will start again in Hannover with many interesting and exciting experiments and exhibits to participate. The GWDG is again represented with its own exhibit at the EF-05 stand of the University of Göttingen, where many other institutions of the University of Göttingen present their exhibits. In a small experiment on the subject of “Data-Analytics” we show how to compare photographs of visitors with celebrities with the aid of algorithms for the recognition of faces and similarities.