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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.

Researchers have tested the software of three satellites. And they found many standard security mechanisms missing. Thousands of satellites are currently orbiting the Earth, and there will be many more in the future. Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken have assessed the security of these systems from an IT perspective.

Future artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and AI-based robots in particular, must be able to understand and gauge not only their own actions, but also those of others.

University managements award four Collaboration Grants / Interview with Claudia Voelcker-Rehage about a winning project in 2022 On June 30, the managements of the Universities of Münster and Twente a

Who has ever been hit by cybercrime? How do people protect themselves from it? A survey reveals similarities and differences between different groups around the world.

Humans often have no chance whatsoever of distinguishing artificially generated images, audios and videos from real ones. This is why researchers are currently working on automated recognition solutions. All it takes is a simple text command: in no time at all, artificial intelligence can generate an image that looks like a real photo and is indistinguishable from it to human eyes.

University of Freiburg data for all city districts now available in real time via app A thunderstorm is raging in the Zähringen district of Freiburg, but in Rieselfeld there is hardly a drop of rain.

Digital twins and cybersecurity strategies for the modern world of work Our researchers are responsible for two long-term projects, the "KI.FABRIK" and the "German-French Academy for the Indus

Wide-ranging research on embodied intelligence at TUM A robot can be as small as a pill or as big as a (self-driving) car.

Researchers from Leipzig University will present an interactive digital cube that can visualise climate data from anywhere in the world in space and time at the Building Bridges for the Next Generations conference on 16 May. As a freely accessible website, LexCube makes terabytes of data available to everyone.

Increasing heat and drought are changing forests faster than expected. Researchers at the University of Würzburg want to keep a better eye on these dynamics.

Engineer Edoardo Milana will research bioinspired soft robotic systems made of deformable and adaptive materials at the University of Freiburg Dr. Edoardo Milana has been appointed Tenure-Trac

Munich Data Science Institute Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence now share a joint home at TUM: The Munich Data Science Institute, a research center and service facility for scientific projects.

"Flora Incognita," Germany's most popular plant identification app, has received new artificial intelligence - as a result, the number of plant species that can be determined has tripled: Around 16,000 species can now be identified worldwide. In addition, the app, which is now available in 20 languages, now also works in offline mode, and its digital educational offering includes a wealth of new information, such as improved distribution maps of many species.

The Technische Universität Ilmenau has developed an innovative audio technology for augmented and virtual reality that makes it possible to generate virtual sound sources in a natural environment.

The AI programme ChatGPT is -a new milestone- / It presents both opportunities and risks - not only for universities The programme provides answers to almost every conceivable question - within seconds.