Constanze Kurz

Dipl.-Inf.
Johann von Neumann House
Rudower Chaussee 25
House 3, 4th floor, room 404

Postal address:
Institut für Informatik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin

Tel. +49 30 2093 3179
frau (at) informatik.hu-berlin (dot) de
Public Keys

I am currently Research Assistant at the chair Computers in Education and Society of Prof. Wolfgang Coy.

Lectures (in German)

Winter 2009/10

Seminar Computerisierte Wahlen und Wahlcomputer

with Stefan Klumpp and Jörg Pohle: Seminar Dystopien der Informatik

Unterrichtsplanung in der Informatik

Hauptseminar Fachdidaktik

Proseminar Verantwortung und Ethik in der Informatik

Winter 2007/08

Multimedia in der Schule

Seminar Didaktik in der Informatik

Proseminar Online-Wahlen und Wahlcomputer

Summer 2007

Multimedia in der Schule

Winter 2006/07

Seminar Geschichte der Verschlüsselung

Hauptseminar Fachdidaktik

Proseminar Verantwortung und Ethik in der Informatik

Summer 2006

Seminar Überwachungstechnologien und informationelle Selbstbestimmung

Multimedia in der Schule

Schüler-AG Informatik - Mensch - Gesellschaft

Winter 2005/06

with Volker Grassmuck: Proseminar Urheberrecht zwischen digitaler Rechtekontrolle und Wissensfreiheiten

Hauptseminar Fachdidaktik

Seminar Gesellschaftliche, technische und juristische Perspektiven von Filesharing-Netzen

Schüler-AG Informatik - Mensch - Gesellschaft

Summer 2005

Proseminar Wurzeln der Informatik

zusammen mit Roland Kubica: Seminar Geschichte der Kryptologie

Summer 2004

with Roland Kubica: Seminar Leben und Werk John von Neumanns

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Publications

Books

In 2007, Sandro Gaycken and me were working on our first book. 1984.exe - Gesellschaftliche, politische und juristische Aspekte moderner Überwachungstechnologien (German) was published in January 2008. The 2nd edition is now available.

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Talks

Winter 2009/10

Talk at Bundesarbeitskreis Kritischer Juragruppen (BAKJ): Neue Entwicklungen in der Telekommunikationsüberwachung - New Developments in Lawful Interception

Summer 2009

Talk at Mensa in Deutschland e.V. (MinD): Biometrie als Überwachungstechnologie - Biometrics as Surveillance Technology

Talk at the Freundeskreis der Fakultät für Informatik (FFI) of the Institut of Technology in Karlsruhe: Sicher schneller? - Pro und Contra computerisierter Wahlsysteme - Confidently faster? - the pros and cons of computerized voting systems

Winter 2008/09

Talk at the Neue Richtervereinigung (NRV) 2009: Kernbereichsschutz im digitalen Zeitalter - the core area of private life in the digital age

Summer 2008

Talk at the university of Erlangen: Online-Durchsuchung und digitale Intimsphäre - Online search and digital private sphere

Winter 2006/2007

Talk in a workshop on Ethics & Quality Assurance in Science: Ethik und Informatik in der Lehre - teaching of ethics and responsibility in computer science

Summer 2006

Talk in Dagstuhl: Biometrische Feldtests - Will biometric identification systems increase security?

Winter 2005/06

Talk: Diskursanalyse: Der ePass - critical discourse analysis: The German biometric passport

Talk in Berlin FrauenComputerZentrumBerlin, knowledge management: Ways of Organising Information - Interaction, Communication, Participation

Talk in Weimar: Biometrische Feldtests in Europa - Actual field testing in Europe. How well do Biometrics work?

Summer 2005

Talk in Lanke: Biometrie und ePass - Biometric technology in German passports

Projekt P - Berlin05: Wir haben etwas zu verbergen - Privacy Protection

Projekt P - Berlin05 with Cristian Yxen: Datenspuren im Netz - Tracking the data of the user's web browser

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Projects

Die Hörspiel-Werkstatt

Scripts of the Audio Features

Taped Audition of the first scene of the John von Neumann feature

Like always under Creative Commons License (NonCommercial - ShareAlike 2.0), free to download, watch, perform yourself and distribute is our newest live feature performed at the 23c3: Konrad Zuse - Der rechnende Raum (m4v, 96 MB, German only).

See us live and in colour performing Have you hugged your Mac today? (mp4, 280 MB) at the 22c3 in Berlin.

Here is another film of a live performance of The Incomputable Alan Turing (avi, 60 MB), excellent microphone testing included.

The Hörspiel-Werkstatt performed two audio features involving music, speech and a visual presentation at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften on May 13th, 2006. We showed Proof by Erasure - The Life of John von Neumann and Have you hugged your Mac today?

We performed the German radio play "Ich bin nur der Fahrer" on June 6th, 2005 here in Berlin. The adrenalin flowed for the speakers and we achieved major success with our live performance. We are encouraged to perform it again in the near future.

Speakers: Jens Loebel, Constanze Kurz, Kai Kittler und Marcus Richter

Audio & sound effects: Jochen Koubek

Research on Computer History and John von Neumann

A joint paper "Why not bomb them today? - Das politische Wirken John von Neumanns" (German) with Marcus Richter is available under a Creative Commons License.

Voting Computers

E-Voting is not only the topic of my dissertation. Together with some activists from Austria I sometimes write at papierwahl.at (German). Some more information and documents can be found here (mostly German).

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Media

Magazines

I spoke to Markus Wanzeck from Stern magazine about surveillance, activism and the Chaos Computer Club for an article which has been published in December 2007. You can read the Stern portrait on Frank, a horse and me online (German only).

Newspapers

Every now and then I am writing a column for the printed version of German newspaper taz. Sometimes they also put it online (German only).

The German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost published some months ago an article (German only) about hackers, the Chaos Computer Club, and me. The article doesn't describe everything correctly, but I think this portrait is interesting and rather funny.

The entire, must-read "Neue Hack-Ordnung" report is available online for you to read by clicking here (1.5 MB, jpg-file, German language). This is an report of Oliver Trenkamp for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung about the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress.

TV

If someone asks the average person to define what a hacker is, people probably give strange answers. Maybe that's why German TV station 3sat wanted to know how hackers see themselves. Here are two short reports, German only. (Warning: The Mediathek allows no direct link, click "Zur Mediathek".)

Online

Some weeks ago German newspaper taz did an interview with me including a YouTube three minutes interview. It can be viewed here (German). Thanks to Matthias Krause for his genuine passion. :}

I was recently interviewed by tagesschau.de, which in Germany is one of the most trusted TV news sites, about jobholder's data privacy rights. Check out the interview (German only).

Radio talks

2006: Last weeks I had the opportunity to do some interviews and radio talk shows on German television and broadcast. One of my radio talks is now available to download. Click here (2 hours, 54 MB, ogg-file, German language). This is a discussion and call-in talk show about the biometrics included in the new German passports and the surrounding technology with its cryptographic security measures and problems.

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Symposia

Voting Computers

At the workshop Black Box Enlightenment - A skeptical view on eVoting which Stefan and I had organized, we had some very interesting discussions about the issue of eVoting and the new situation after the decision of the German Constitutional Court in March 2009.

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