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Your mobile phone needs to be charged and there is no socket you can use? A TUM-design powerbank can help.

What TUM student Anne Nyokabi has to tell sounds like a modern fairy tale: She grew up in very poor conditions in Kenya and dreamt of being able to study.

With a sum of six million euros, three private sponsors have secured the funding for a new facility intended for Heidelberg scientists in the European Human Brain Project who are developing new and pioneering computer systems in a field known as neuromorphic computing.

Campus news Find out more about exciting research and innovation in Europe - with 'Technologist', produced by the EuroTech Universities Alliance.

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Sponsors Computer Science Project at Freie Universität Berlin and Hamburg University of Applied Sciences with 1.

Research news Each year, the European Research Council (ERC) bestows funding grants for a selection of research projects across the continent.

TUM in the media Imagine if you could use your smartphone to take pictures of static and moving objects and 're-construct' the real world into a 3D image - almost instantaneously.

Cyber Security Researchers from SCADACS Group Map Distribution within Germany and Analyze Situation Worldwide / PRESS PICTURES TO ' 420/2016 from Nov 30, 2016 Cyber security researchers from Freie Un

Research news Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), in cooperation with the Munich University of Applied Sciences and Wasserwacht (German Water Rescue Service) at Riem, have developed a new technique for locating drowning people faster with support from Autel.

Campus news The EuroTech Universities Alliance calls on the EU for sufficient long-term funding for Open Science models which transcend disciplinary boundaries, national borders and engage a wider range of societal actors.

Research news Nokia Bell Labs, Deutsche Telekom T-Labs and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have achieved unprecedented transmission capacity and spectral efficiency in an optical field trial with a new modulation technique.

Research news Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst became the first European women's team to win the gold medal for beach volleyball at the Olympic Games in Rio.

Research news At the opening ceremony of the 2014 Soccer World Cup in Brazil a paraplegic Brazilian man kicked off the first ball of the tournament himself.

Freie Universität Berlin Cooperates with Mexican Universities as Part of the Mexican-German Year ' 271/2016 from Aug 08, 2016 The Institute of Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin developed twelve autonomous model cars for scientists in Mexico.

Campus news Happy 2nd birthday to our science and technology magazine "Technologist"! It provides cutting-edge research from the Universities of Eurotech Universities Alliance and beyond.

Campus news If the German Innovation Lab (GIL) gets its way, the Garching campus of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) my become one of the first testing sites for autonomous vehicles within the next few years.

Digitalization and automation are changing our working environments: Computers control production processes, robots handle all kinds of tasks, humans and machines must work together closely.

The rich worlds created in the TV series "Game of Thrones" (GoT) inspired a computer science class at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany: As part of their class project the students developed applications that scour the web for data on the Game of Thrones and crunch the numbers.

The Human Brain Project (HBP) is about to release prototypes of its six new technology platforms, thereby making the first components, services and tools available to the scientific community.

An important milestone for the Human Brain Project has been reached: as of today, Wednesday, 30 March, the prototypes of the six information and technology (ICT) platforms are set for release.

The novel, brain-inspired computing system BrainScaleS will be launched at the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics of Heidelberg University.

The Institute for Political Science of Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) have jointly released a new database compiling information on both violent and nonviolent conflicts.

Public Presentation of Looted Cultural Assets Database on March 10, 2016 A database of cultural assets looted during the period of National Socialism will be presented to the public on March 10.

Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure Goes Online on January 15, 2016 The virtual research infrastructure that evolved out of the Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI) project to support scholarly research will go online on January 15, 2016.

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is creating a new Endowed Professorship. The Professorship for "Large-scale data analytics and machine learning" will focus on the automated analysis of very large amounts of data.

Using robotic assistance to prevent or mitigate back pain - that is the goal of a new European research project whose members include researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) of Heidelberg University.

Siemens is to build a new research center at the high-tech campus run by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Garching.

Where is the nearest doctor's office, which schools offer German courses, and what is the deadline for submitting particular applications? Finding answers to such questions is vitally important to refugees arriving in Germany.

Dongheui Lee (38), Professor for Dynamic Human-Robot Interaction at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has been granted a highly sought-after Helmholtz professorship.

Mathematicians and computer scientists at Heidelberg University will be able to teach and conduct research together under one roof in the future, instead of being spread across various locations.

Mathematicians and computer scientists at Heidelberg University will be able to teach and conduct research together under one roof in the future, instead of being spread across various locations.

A billion billion, i.e. 10 18 computer operations per second is the level of performance that the next generation of supercomputers should be able to deliver.

The Heidelberg based expert on information technologies, Andreas Reuter, has been appointed senior professor of Heidelberg University.

Humanoid robots are intended to become more and more like people. But walking on two legs - one of the characteristic features of the human being - continues to pose particular problems to these machines.

The current episode of "Horizons" on BBC World News focuses on technology inspired by nature - including sensitive artificial skin developed by Philipp Mittendorfer at TUM's Institute for Cognitive Systems.

Fully-loaded trucks take longer than cars to accelerate after a stop. This impedes the flow of traffic and leads to more pollutant emissions and noise.

Fellow of Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Professor of Bioinformatics at Freie Universität Berlin Will Head New Center The Intel PCC program supports universities, institutions, and labs identified as leaders in their fields.

A new high-performance computer cluster, known as the bwForCluster MLS&WISO, qualified the University of Heidelberg and the University of Mannheim for inclusion in the list of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world.

Freie Universität Berlin Demonstrates First Autonomous Driving on Roads in Switzerland The autonomous vehicle MadeInGermany developed at Freie Universität Berlin is the first such vehicle to be allowed to drive on the streets in Switzerland.

Soccer Robots of Freie Universität Defend Championship Title at German Open in Magdeburg and Also Win 2015 Harting Open Source Prize The FUmanoids, the soccer robots of Freie Universität, defended their championship title at the RoboCup German Open in Magdeburg.

Computer Scientists from Freie Universität Berlin Present Research Results against Cyberhacking at CeBIT 2015 At this year's CeBIT computer fair, computer scientists from Freie Universität Berlin are