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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Teaching staff | ERP systems - in depart. of Comp Science

Matthias Heiler

Matthias.Heiler@unibz.it

Faculty of Engineering
NOI Techpark - Bruno-Buozzi-Straße 1 - via Bruno Buozzi, 1
39100
Bozen-Bolzano

Short bio

I studied physics in Heidelbeerg, and started my IT carrier at Lufthansa, and after an intermediate position at a consulting company I joined SAP in 1995. Here I held different positions in SAP technology. I used to work in the sales department, responsible for providing deep understanding of SAP technology on premise and in the cloud to our customers.
Currently I'm in early retirement and can spend my time with other topics. My focus right now is on AI (artificial intelligence) and it's amazing to see how fast this technology is evolving and how much of transition it brings to the society. 

Courses

ERP Systems and IT Service Management

76414B · INF/01 · Bachelor in Informatics and Management of Digital Business · DE

Main Research Areas

Main research area is about Web Technologies, RESTful services, integration requirements, Cloud infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes), vibe programming, but also AI, Microservices Architecture and ERP.

Currently my main focus is on the history of technological evolutions and it's quite interesting to see how Aristoteles developed the term (and implications) of "formal logic" and what this means to how language works, and to see how over the development of Newton's "Law of Motions" and the development of mathematics as a abstract formal description of it, ends up now in the Large Language Models (LLM). Interestingly we do not understand how really a LLM works (and why), therefore it looks like we need something similar to Newtons laws. The "Law of Motions" in language space, the space of (word) embeddings.
I'm looking forward to see how these new logic, abstract formalism and (perhaps a new) development of a mathematic will occur and to where it leads. 
Rather interesting topic...

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