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BMBF-funded BNTrAinee project transferring expertise in modern machine-learning algorithms to other fields BNTrAinee, a project on and Research (BMBF) and based at the University of Bonn, is developing AI-supported answers to specific research questions and is forging links between the University's computer science teams and all manner of other subjects.

The University of Bonn's Team NimbRo was the top scoring team in the @Home league for household robots at the RoboCup German Open, held in Kassel from April 18-20.

A research project at the University of Würzburg (JMU) has received 137,000 euros in federal funding. The project will develop an AI early warning system to prevent errors in the development of new software. The research project is being carried out by a team led by Professor Ingo Scholtes, chair of Machine Learning for Complex Networks at the CAIDAS Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.

An Emmy Noether junior research group at Heidelberg University is investigating how to gain new insights into fundamental biological mechanisms from large-scale molecular data sets.

Researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) and the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, along with an international team, have developed a new technology that could significantly reduce the high energy demands of future AI systems.

Seven new research projects on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Google are driving forward research into cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI).

In an increasingly digitalized world, where vast quantities of data are stored in the cloud, the security of sensitive information is a central challenge.

Racing car with artificial intelligence wins in Las Vegas Victory in Las Vegas for the TUM Autonomous Motorsport Team! Once again, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has proven that autonomous driving can also work successfully on the race track at top speeds.

Heidelberg researchers receive computing time for simulating the behaviour of cosmic gases and plasmas during star formation A Swiss-German research team hopes to unlock the secrets of star formation

A research group at the University of Würzburg develops fundamental methods for analyzing music with the help of machine learning. The project is led by Professor Christof Weiß at CAIDAS. In his role as Professor of Computer Science (Computational Humanities) at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), Christof Weiß combines two apparently very different subject areas: Mathematics and computer science meet art and culture in his work.

DFG makes finance available for three projects on quality assurance of research software The continuing development and long-term quality assurance of research software is the priority of three projects at Heidelberg University that were successful in a call by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Physicist Elena Hassinger has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for her research on superconductors.

Interview with quantum physicist Prof. Andreas Reiserer Researchers around the world are working on a network which could connect quantum computers with one another over long distances.

In a new ranking, Computer Science at the University of Würzburg has achieved very good positions in a number of areas. In one discipline, it is even ranked 1st in Germany. First place in Germany, third place in Europe, sixth place worldwide: This is the result achieved by the Chair of Human-Computer Interaction at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in the CSRankings in the research field of Virtual Reality.

Carl Zeiss Foundation finances cross-location joint project in AI-assisted cancer research Forecasting how aggressive brain tumours respond to certain substances with Artificial Intelligence (AI) met

The new high-performance computer "Marvin" is now available for University of Bonn researchers to use-one of the world's top 500 most powerful computers Constantly increasing data volumes, ever more

Ever larger data volumes, more complex calculation and modeling methods: In many fields of research, large amounts of data play an important role.

The University of Münster reorganises its IT security and Almost every week we read about cyberattacks on companies or authorities - quite often on universities, too.

NewIn: Barbara Kraus In the this episode of our "New In" series, we introduce Prof. Barbara Kraus.

A team of five, headed by quantum physicist Professor Ronny Thomale of the Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, secured second place in the international IBM Quantum Open Science Prize.

More cooperating businesses, higher funding, a new partner within the university: BigData@Geo is going into the second round and wants to use climate data to create concrete recommendations for action for businesses with a connection to nature.

NewIn: Lukas Heinrich What moves our newly appointed professors? What fields does their research impact and what are they particularly looking forward to at TUM? You'll find out about all that and more in our "NewIn" series. In the this episode we meet Lukas Heinrich. As Professor for Data Science in Physics he develops methods which help discover new elementary particles based on enormous amounts of data.