Spurensuche Zeitgeschehen Mobile Printers Less is more. Printing in the year 2025. Continue reading 17.04.2025 Ines Balcik
Tech Learning What happens in the data gold mine The gold diggers of yesteryear are now on the hunt for valuable data. And if you don't have any, you become a data alchemist and construct some. Really? Continue reading 17.03.2025 Ines Balcik
Tech AI from Europe: Teuken-7B from OpenGPT-X and Le Chat from Mistral AI European AI models are a good choice. Just give them a try. Continue reading 16.02.2025 Ines Balcik
Learning Zeitgeschehen ML, LLM and the power of language Large Language Models (LLM) are changing the world of artificial intelligence. This article addresses aspects of the current state of LLM technology. Continue reading 17.01.2025 Ines Balcik
People and opinions Zeitgeschehen Digitalization's concert of wishes Wie sieht's aus mit der Digitalisierung in Deutschland? Kurzer Zwischenstand und lange Wunschliste. Continue reading 05.12.2024 Ines Balcik
Tech Digital tools: making e-billing child's play With the right tools, e-invoices become a key to smooth day-to-day business. A good time to check and optimize invoice processes. Continue reading 15.11.2024 Ines Balcik
Spurensuche Tech Of BASIC and bytes: the history of digitization Back to the roots! Join us on a discovery tour to the roots of the digital world. It all started quite simply: once upon a time there was a zero and a one ... Continue reading 16.10.2024 Ines Balcik
Tech Spurensuche Timeline to the world of data What the theft of the “Mona Lisa” has to do with data processing and other details from the history of data. Continue reading 26.09.2024 Ines Balcik
Spurensuche Language, Books, Digital Today I'm going to the Prompt Library Collected knowledge helps everyone, even artificial intelligence. Continue reading 22.08.2024 Ines Balcik
Renewables Solar energy makes sense A surprising number of locations are suitable for photovoltaic systems. A slightly different perspective on solar power. Continue reading 17.07.2024 Ines Balcik
Tech People and opinions Ergonomic and user-friendly No UX and no UI without ergonomic information processing. Improve the human ability to act. Continue reading 17.06.2024 Ines Balcik
Tech Movement Reaching for your wallet The state of digital security in public transport and what we have to do with it. Continue reading 20.05.2024 Ines Balcik
People and opinions Zeitgeschehen Into other spheres The language of the Inuit reaches all the way to the Internet. So does their human wisdom. What else does Ikiaqqijjuti want to tell us? Continue reading 15.04.2024 Ines Balcik
Language, Books, Digital Tech Between Humanistic Education and Digital Humanities Data mining in venerable libraries, all in the service of research and creativity. Continue reading 25.03.2024 Ines Balcik
Tech Zeitgeschehen Ambivalence of AI: hope or challenge? What is the EU Artificial Intelligence ACT and what is the EU AI law actually aimed at? And what does Goethe have to do with it? Continue reading 20.02.2024 Ines Balcik
Tech From address to address codes Help, my parcel is not arriving! Application examples for the meaningful preparation of geographical data. Continue reading 08.02.2024 Ines Balcik
Tech Renewables Regional concepts for solar energy Without data, almost nothing works if you want to represent more complex relationships. Continue reading 28.07.2023 Tarik Balcik
Movement Beta-3-Blog is moving Beta 3 blog in a new design and bilingual (German and English). Continue reading 09.07.2023 Ines Balcik
Tech Learning Glossary So that everything has its order and the overview is secured: important IT and data terms in the Pro:Hive and Beta 3 blog glossary. Continue reading 13.02.2023 Editor
Spurensuche Language, Books, Digital Editing meets technology. Spelling isn't that important, specialized software proofreads. Is that enough? No! Good texts don't write themselves. Continue reading 30.01.2023
Tech Data Management Basic IT and tech terms explained in an understandable way Continue reading 23.01.2023 Ines Balcik
Language, Books, Digital Writing with a digital pen Tablet or tablet? If you want to write with an e-pen, you should be prepared for surprises. Continue reading 08.12.2022 Ines Balcik
Letters 4.0 When the e-letter disappeared A swan song to a letter that never really arrived and will not be missed - despite the puffery of the swan song headlines. Continue reading 14.09.2022 Ines Balcik
Language, Books, Digital Spurensuche Universal Encyclopedia All the world's knowledge gathered in one place - dream or nightmare? In the heyday of printed encyclopedias, the answer was different than in times of AI. Continue reading 12.09.2022 Ines Balcik
People and opinions The Human Side of Chatbots Learning Designer Dr. Cäcilie Kowald on areas of tension in music and text, border crossings between literature and technology - and AI Continue reading 19.06.2022 Ines Balcik
People and opinions Zeitgeschehen More Civic Participation Democracy means ensuring that as many voices as possible are heard and involved, even in the 21st century. We present two initiatives. Continue reading 10.03.2022 Ines Balcik
Language, Books, Digital Tech Encounters with AI Opinions are divided on the subject of AI (artificial intelligence). Progress for some, a spectre for others ... Continue reading 15.02.2022 Ines Balcik
Language, Books, Digital A Festival for Book Lovers Digitized collections from old libraries enable a new kind of celebration of the book senses. Continue reading 07.02.2022 Ines Balcik
Movement Where Do They Run? Who is ahead, who wins? GPS. What connects racetrack conversations, Harry Potter's magical world and ambitious amateur runners. Continue reading 01.02.2022 Ines Balcik
Zeitgeschehen Tech Digital ID Digital passport, digital driver's license - isn't there already something? Continue reading 15.01.2022 Ines Balcik
Zeitgeschehen Tech Medicine through VR glasses Virtual reality is more than just fun and games. For example, it prepares students for real life in medicine. Continue reading 10.01.2022 Ines Balcik
Spurensuche Preliminary stages of search engines The search for information is a human need. You could also call it curiosity. Continue reading 13.12.2021 Ines Balcik
Learning Urban planning with Minecraft What could the city of the future look like? Young people develop their ideas - with the help of a popular computer game. Continue reading 06.12.2021 Editor
Letters 4.0 How long does a letter take to arrive? Who still gets letters? Business communication is evolving, but sometimes it still plods along as it did in stagecoach days. Continue reading 30.11.2021 Ines Balcik
Zeitgeschehen Never forgotten The Nuremberg Trials are history, but we must not forget them. Stanford University has digitized the archive. Continue reading 29.11.2021 Ines Balcik
Spurensuche Digital awakening of the ancient world The Romans really did leave their mark everywhere. In Germania, and now also in the exciting digitization of history. Continue reading 28.11.2021 Ines Balcik
Spurensuche When women were coding Antonia Maury and Williamina Fleming are almost forgotten names. High time to pay tribute to Human Computers and their pioneering work. Continue reading 11.11.2021 Ines Balcik
Zeitgeschehen Tech Blockchain, Bohemian Villages and Bitcoin Everyone has heard of Bitcoin. What is the technical concept behind it? A non-technical attempt at understanding. Continue reading 10.11.2021 Ines Balcik
People and opinions Tech Social Competence Software and soft skills. Or: What happens when digitization becomes human? Continue reading 29.10.2021 Ines Balcik
Language, Books, Digital Where are the e-books? What are books, anyway, and who reads them at all? People are reading differently, not less. Figures and theses on the e-book market. Continue reading 25.10.2021 Ines Balcik
Tech Language, Books, Digital Digitization from A to Z Everyone is talking about digitization. But what is it anyway? Entertaining insights into a complex topic. Continue reading 17.10.2021 Ines Balcik
Tech Letters 4.0 Digital Signature, what is that? The long history of the digital signature in a nutshell: It's complicated. A video from 2001 and new developments. Continue reading 14.10.2021 Ines Balcik
Language, Books, Digital Spurensuche Parallel Reading Books, there are books everywhere. I would love to read them all. How can you do that? Using a device dating from the 16th century. Continue reading 31.03.2021 Ines Balcik
People and opinions The Blog (Der, die, das Blog) DER blog dominates the whole Internet. The whole Internet? No. A last stand against German grammar mainstream. Continue reading 14.02.2021 Ines Balcik