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03.02.2010 Letter to the editor in Klassekampen on security and privacy issues with the Norwegian e-Voting project for the 2011 local elections (reprint, in Norwegian).

01.02.2010 As of today, I am the head of the basic science section (physics, mathematics, computer science) at the Department of Mathematical Science and Technology.

25.01.2010 After a fine sabbatical at the Simula Research Center on the western side of Oslo, I am now back at UMB.

16.12.2009 Eilen Nordlie, my first PhD student, successfully defended her doctoral thesis Contributions to neuronal network modeling and the investigation of rate-based models of the visual system.

16.12.2009 E. Nordlie and H.E. Plesser.
Visualizing neuronal network connectivity with connectivity pattern tables
is now published in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 3:39, 2009. Read it here!
You can download the ConnPlotter Python package described in the paper.

10.12.2009 Is Computational Biology a Reliable Science?, my first talk to a philosophy of science audience at the Philosophy of Systems Biology 2009 conference a University of Oslo.

16.09.2009 CBC Workshop on Computational Biology: Bringing together the computational biology groups at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Computational Neuroscience, Cigene) and Simula Research Laboratory (Center for Biomedical Computing).

15.09.2009 Interviewed in Dagbladet, a large Norwegian daily, about camera surveillance in Oslo.

01.09.2009 Hans Ekkehard Plesser.
Kartlegging av kameraovervåking i Oslo (Mapping Camera Surveillance in Oslo)
is now published in Lov & Data (in Norwegian) 99:26-27, 2009. Reprint.

07.08.2009 E. Nordlie, M.-O. Gewaltig, and H.E. Plesser.
Towards reproducible models of neuronal network models
is now published in PLoS Computational Biology 5:e1000456, 2009. Read it here!

17.04.2009 NEST now has a multicompartment neuron, iaf_cond_alpha_mc (r8219).

01.03.2009 An invited contribution on privacy and security concerns about the Norwegian central resident registry was published in the Nordic journal Lov&Data.

11.02.2009 H. E. Plesser and M. Diesmann.
Simplicity and efficiency of integrate-and-fire neuron models
is now published in Neural Computation 21:353-359, 2009. Read a preprint here!

20.01.2009 I am one of four nominees for UMB's teaching prize for 2009 for the development of the RoboLabor, a LEGO Mindstorms (TM) based lab for first-year students.

03.02.2010	Letter to the editor in Klassekampen on security and privacy issues with the Norwegian e-Voting project for the 2011 local elections (reprint, in Norwegian).
01.02.2010	As of today, I am the head of the basic science section (physics, mathematics, computer science) at the Department of Mathematical Science and Technology.
25.01.2010	After a fine sabbatical at the Simula Research Center on the western side of Oslo, I am now back at UMB.
16.12.2009	Eilen Nordlie, my first PhD student, successfully defended her doctoral thesis Contributions to neuronal network modeling and the investigation of rate-based models of the visual system.
16.12.2009	E. Nordlie and H.E. Plesser. Visualizing neuronal network connectivity with connectivity pattern tables is now published in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 3:39, 2009. Read it here! You can download the ConnPlotter Python package described in the paper.
10.12.2009	Is Computational Biology a Reliable Science?, my first talk to a philosophy of science audience at the Philosophy of Systems Biology 2009 conference a University of Oslo.
16.09.2009	CBC Workshop on Computational Biology: Bringing together the computational biology groups at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Computational Neuroscience, Cigene) and Simula Research Laboratory (Center for Biomedical Computing).
15.09.2009	Interviewed in Dagbladet, a large Norwegian daily, about camera surveillance in Oslo.
01.09.2009	Hans Ekkehard Plesser. Kartlegging av kameraovervåking i Oslo (Mapping Camera Surveillance in Oslo) is now published in Lov & Data (in Norwegian) 99:26-27, 2009. Reprint.
07.08.2009	E. Nordlie, M.-O. Gewaltig, and H.E. Plesser. Towards reproducible models of neuronal network models is now published in PLoS Computational Biology 5:e1000456, 2009. Read it here!
17.04.2009	NEST now has a multicompartment neuron, `iaf_cond_alpha_mc` (r8219).
01.03.2009	An invited contribution on privacy and security concerns about the Norwegian central resident registry was published in the Nordic journal Lov&Data.
11.02.2009	H. E. Plesser and M. Diesmann. Simplicity and efficiency of integrate-and-fire neuron models is now published in Neural Computation 21:353-359, 2009. Read a preprint here!
20.01.2009	I am one of four nominees for UMB's teaching prize for 2009 for the development of the RoboLabor, a LEGO Mindstorms (TM) based lab for first-year students.