sentences:  In 2004 he received his honorary professorship from the University of Potsdam.The Bachelor and Master programs of the joint Digital Engineering Faculty of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and the University of Potsdam (UP) are characterized by their practically-oriented education and enables students to learn in small groups with the special supervision by professors.The bachelor's program IT Systems Engineering (80 places per year) is an alternative to classical computer science.