On June 30, 2021, Dirk van Straaten has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Inferring Quality with Reputation Systems - Experimental Evidence on Elicitation Mechanisms and Aggregation Metrics"

The paper "Situation-Specific Business Model Development Methods for Mobile App Developers" written by Sebastian Gottschalk, Enes Yigitbas, Alexander Nowosad and Gregor Engels, CRC 901 project C5, wins the Best Paper Award on the 26th International Conference on Evaluation and Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development (EMMSAD 2021).

On June 21, 2021, Kristian Hinnenthal has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Models and Algorithms for Hybrid Networks and Hybrid Programmable Matter"

The eleventh edition of HEART will take place as a virtual conference. The symposium will be held from June 21–23 2021.

On May 26, 2021, Prof. Dr. Christine Legner (Faculty of Business and Economics, HEC, University of Lausanne) will give a talk about "Democratizing Data in Enterprises - A Reference Model for Enterprise Data Catalogs" in the context of the SFB 901.

Since 2009, the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing (also called SIROCCO award) has been presented annually at the conference “International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO)” to an individual (or individuals) who have made a major contribution to understanding the relationships between information and efficiency in decentralized computing, which is main area of interest for the SIROCCO…

On March 29, 2021, Michael Feldmann has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Algorithms for Distributed Data Structures and Self-Stabilizing Overlay Networks"