Stephan Winkler is, as of today, officially professor at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. After a well received PhD thesis and several years of hard work, he is now going to face many new challenges in both education and research at the department of Medical and Bioinformatics in Hagenberg, several of which are also part of the tasks at Heureka!

The whole team congratulates whole-heartedly and wishes him all the best and a lot of success for his plans!

The Heureka! team is proud to announce the first partners meeting where first results are to be discussed and presented. The meeting will take place at campus Hagenberg of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences.

There are currently three topics on the agenda:

1. Presentation of the centre's topics in more detail
2. Introduction of the part data based structure identification
3. Introduction of the part optimization in production environments

The HeuristicLab development team wishes everyone a successful and happy new year 2009! We're glad about the worldwide interest in our software and hope that you're on board with us the coming year. The next chance to meet with members of the team is at the EuroCAST 2009 conference in Gran Canaria, Spain from February 15-20. We are there co-organizing a workshop on heuristic problem solving together with the group of Günther Raidl from the University of Vienna.