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Fraunhofer USA Awarded Patent for Detecting Air Leakage in Buildings Using Communicating Thermostats

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Fraunhofer USA with a patent for algorithms that detect and quantify air leakage from single-family homes using data from commercially available communicating, thermostats.

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Women in Security and Cryptography Workshop 2023

From June 27 to 29, 2023, the Cluster of Excellence “CASA – Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries” in Bochum (Germany) organizes the WISC workshop for female PhD students and outstanding female students in IT security and related areas. Application deadline: April 15.

News from the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI)

Deepen your Knowledge in the Most Modern Areas of Computer Science

Let´s create the digital world together! At the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, we want to unite students from all over the world in their spirit of innovation. Join HPI!

News from Campus OWL

Intelligent Algorithms to Aid Disaster Management

After a disaster such as flooding or an earthquake, many people want to help. In order to quickly coordinate the assistance and use it in the most targeted way possible, a new project financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) was launched in January.  Paderborn University is collaborating with its partners T-Systems (coordinator), Fraunhofer FOKUS, and others on digital solutions to coordinate volunteer helpers.

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More sustainability, less waste: intelligent production facilities for small baked goods

A consortium from research and industry is examining how the manufacturing process for rolls, doughnuts, pretzels could be made more sustainable.

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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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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.