Hello everybody,

the big CeBIT fair is from March 15 to March 21

this year, in Hannover (Germany).

My research group exhibits work and results

on “computer-aided game design”. We will

demonstrate software on screen. But there will

also be “true” games to touch (old and new ones).

Amongst others, my external doctoral student

Eiko Bleicher (from Berlin) presents database

analyses for a new class of variants of

“EinStein wurfelt nicht!” (on March 17 to March 19).

Ingo Schwab (the father of Fraggle_c) will also

be there (on March 19 to 21).

“Special Guest” will be Michail Antonow (on

all days except Sunday) with his fantastic

connection game “ConHex”. In the meantime,

there exists a computer program which plays

“ConHex” somehow intelligently. It is written

by stud.inf. Joerg Guenther (alias jguenth

here on LittleGolem). Joerg will also be present

on the CeBIT.

Our presentation is part of the joint “box”

of the Universities and “Fachhochschulen” of

the states Saxonia, “Saxonia-Fullstop” (free

translation of “Sachsen-Anhalt”) und Thuringia

(Jena and its University belong to Thuringia).

You find us in Hall 9 (Public Sector), box D-04.

Feel free to have a look (and feel also free

to identify yourself as a member of Little

Golem).

Prof. Dr. Ingo Althofer

(is already eager to know how he will feel

after 7 days of CeBIT…)

Lieber Ingo,

Du hast Dich etwas - so hoffe ich - in den Tagen “vertan”.

Ein Zitat aus Deiner Mail an uns (die hoffentlich stimme, da ich am Mittwoch anreisen werde…) : “Am 14. Maerz ist Aufbau, und an dem Tag

kommt man so auf das Messegelaende (ohne

Karte). Ingo kann also direkt zum Stand

kommen (ich werde ab ca. 14 Uhr dort sein)

und beim Aufbau helfen. Dort bekommt er dann

auch einen Aussteller-Ausweis, den er am

15. + 16. + 17. nutzen soll und mir am

17. vor seiner Abreise da lassen soll.”

Ich freue mich! Ingo

Oh, my dear. Ingo Schwab - the programmer

of fraggle_c - is right.

Here is the correct (and complete) list

of helpers from the game programming scene:

\* Ingo Schwab (fraggle_c): March 15-17

\* Eiko Bleicher: March 17-19

\* Peter Stahlhacke (programmer of Muehle/Nine men's Morris): March 19-21

\* Joerg Guenther (programmer of connection games): March 15-21

\* Andreas Schaefer: March 17

(the first ever to write a program for EinStein-wurfelt-nicht)

\* Jakob Erdmann: March 18

(programmer of several board games)

See you in Hannover,

Ingo (who will be on CeBIT all days, March 15-21)