At the ceremony, Federal Minister Martin Polaschek honoured a total of 55 outstanding graduates from 34 universities, who each received prize money of € 3,000. The University of Innsbruck was allowed to nominate two people according to a defined distribution key.
Prerequisites for the award of the appreciation prize are, in particular, that the Bachelor's, Master's and/or diploma examination has been completed with distinction, that an outstanding and best assessed diploma or Master's thesis has been written and that the standard period of study has not been exceeded by more than two semesters.
Johannes Niederhauser's excellent Master's thesis "Left-Linear Completion with AC Axioms" was particularly impressive. He is also the first graduate of the specialisation "Logic and Learning" (in fact, Johannes is the first graduate of a Master CS specialisation ever!). He will continue his promising career as a PhD student in the Computational Logic research group.