December 2008 – Lecture at Saarland University (Summer Courses 2009): “Übersetzungsindustrie: ein Wachstums- und Zukunftsmarkt”.

October 2008 – At the AMTA 2008 Panel “What we want from Machine Translation” (Waikiki, October 22, 2008) bioloom group presents their view on future developments in Machine Translation.

September 2008 – Lecture at Saarland University (Winter Courses 2008/2009): “Why is statistics so popular? – An Introduction to Methods and Procedures”.

July / August 2008 – bioloom group Tutorial Proposal together with AMTA President Dr. Mike Dillinger on "Authoring for Translatability and Self-Service Support" and bioloom group Research Paper on "Artificial Cognitive MT Post-Editing Intelligence" accepted for presentation at AMTA 2008 (October 21 - 25, 2008, Honolulu, Hawai'i).

June 2008 – bioloom group Paper accepted for presentation at the prestigious KnowTech Conference of Germany's BITKOM (October 8 - 9, 2008, Frankfurt a.M.).

Januar 2008 – Lecture at Saarland University (Summer Courses 2008): “Semantization – Semantic Web Technologies”.