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Opening Ceremony of the HPI Research Center in Machine Learning and Data Science at the University of California

Already in January 2020, the fourth international branch of the HPI Research Schools was opened at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). But the official opening ceremony had to be postponed again and again due to the Covid-19 pandemic. On November 4, 2022, it could finally be made up for.

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Paderborn University Leads EU Research Project on Explainable Artificial Intelligence

AI has become an integral part of our lives. It has given rise to smart assistants that take on tasks that would otherwise take humans a great deal of time and. To do this, smart assistants require vast amounts of data. ‘Knowledge graphs’ are one of the preferred mechanisms for representing data here, because they can be understood by both humans and machines and ensure that information is processed logically.

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On the Fulbright Scholarship to Virginia Tech

Valentin Döring (22) and Jacob Schäfer (20) are bachelor students of the IT Systems Engineering program at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and Fulbright Scholars. From August 26 to September 17, 2022, they participated in the three-week Fulbright summer study program “Leaders in Entrepreneurship” at the renowned Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

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Understanding Uncertainty

Researchers at Bielefeld University are exploring the benefits of economic uncertainty.  Uncertainty plays a key role in the economy: it gives new or small companies the chance to outsmart their established competitors, and it spurs all companies on to be more innovative. As a result, it drives technological change and the emergence of new markets and industries.

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Protection for digital contracts

Anyone who uses digital contracts – also called smart contracts – should be careful about hacker attacks. Prof. Dr. Lucas Davi from University of Duisburg-Essen’s Institute of Software Technology paluno is developing a solution to find and fix security gaps in the contracts during programming and later in use. For this, he received a starting grant of 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERCA).

Call for Applications

Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grant October 2022

Are you a doctoral researcher or postdoc and your research has a strong link to the (applied) data and information sciences? The Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grant offers doctoral students and Postdocs the opportunity to do a fully-funded short-term research stay (1 – 3 months) at one of the 18 Helmholtz centers.

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The Think Green Academy – Develop Sustainable Ideas for the IT Sector

The Think Green Academy is the new German-speaking format of the HPI Youth Academy and the SAP Young Thinkers program. The online event takes place from October to December 2022, application deadline is August 14, 2022.