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The AI Marketplace: Central Contact Point for AI in Engineering

Reducing production times, saving costs, and identifying errors – AI is an important key to product development. To bring users, providers, and experts in AI together, partners from industry and science, among them Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University, have developed the AI marketplace, a digital platform that provides companies throughout Germany with easy access to AI applications from third-party providers.

New Associated Supporter of the DWIH New York

Four Questions for Martin Setzkorn

The DWIH New York had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Martin Setzkorn, Head of the Center of Digital Innovation and Head of Center of Entrepreneurship at the University of Rostock. The University of Rostock has been one of two new associated supporters of the DWIH New York since May 2024.

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Analyzing Deep-Sea Images with AI

Professor Dr. Tim Nattkemper of Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Engineering has been working on AI-based platforms for analyzing underwater images for more than 15 years. The university is one of 19 partners in the ongoing EU BioProtect project, which aims to improve the protection and restoration of biodiversity in European seas.

News from the University of Freiburg

Spy-Satellite Images Offer Insights into Historical Ecosystem Changes

New study led by Dr. Catalina Munteanu from the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Freiburg advocates the use of more than one million declassified images for ecology and conservation.

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University of Cologne Researchers Find That Clinical Predictive Models Created by AI Are Accurate but Study-Specific

Scientists from Yale and the University of Cologne were able to show that statistical models created by artificial intelligence (AI) predict very accurately whether a medication responds in people with schizophrenia. However, the models are highly context-dependent and cannot be generalized. Study published in Science.

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Trustworthy AI for Seamless Problem Solving

With the steadily increasing integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life, it becomes increasingly important to ask how trustworthy these technologies are. The Research Training Group for Trustworthy AI Technology ‘DataNinja’ aims to contribute to this with various projects. Data Ninja connects leading universities in the area of AI from the region of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is hosted at Bielefeld University. One project is the Real-time Configuration of Algorithms with Multi-armed Bandits (EKAmBa) headed by Professors Dr Kevin Tierney (Bielefeld University) and Dr Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (Paderborn University) together with Associate Professor Dr Eyke Hüllermeier (LMU Munich).

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WestAI – New Service Center for AI in NRW

WestAI is one of four service centers across Germany that offer companies and research institutions access to AI applications. The service center “WestAI” is a consortium of scientific organizations in North Rhine-Westphalia led by the University of Bonn. Paderborn University, TU Dortmund, Fraunhofer, FZ Jülich, RWTH Aachen are part of the consortium. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funds “WestAI” from November 2022 to December 2025.