Personal reflections are given on being students of Helmut J\"urgensen. Then, we attempt to address his hypothesis that informatics follows trend-like behaviours through the use of a content analysis of university job advertisements, and then via simulation techniques from the area of quantitative economics.
@article{arxiv.1903.03405,
title = {From Helmut J\"urgensen's Former Students: The Game of Informatics Research},
author = {Mark Daley and Mark Eramian and Christopher Power and Ian McQuillan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.03405},
year = {2019}
}