Since 1997, the German Chapter of the ACM (Gesellschaft für Informatik - GI) organizes research seminars on hot topics in computer science that are not appropriately represented in textbooks, yet. They are targeted at graduate students and recent PhDs who are interested in learning actively about new developments. Participants are selected mainly according to scientific qualification, i.e. not because of their special area of research, in order to widely spread such developments among academic institutions. The number of participants is typically limited to 20-25.

So far, the following GI Research Seminars have been or are being organized (-> see the list on the GI Research Seminar info page).