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New center for applied cyber security research in Heilbronn
On 1 January 2025, Fraunhofer, in cooperation with the Dieter Schwarz Foundation, will open a total of eight research and innovation centers on the Heilbronn education campus. Among them is the Fraunhofer SIT and thus also ATHENE: We are responsible for the new Fraunhofer Heilbronn Research and Innovation Center for Cybersecurity as one of the eight new research and innovation centers and as a new research department within Fraunhofer SIT.
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ATHENE researchers support Hessian LKA with new biometric methods
The digital revolution is constantly presenting law enforcement agencies with new challenges - especially in the sensitive area of combating child pornography. A research team led by ATHENE scientist Prof. Christian Rathgeb from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences has now achieved a major breakthrough: innovative artificial intelligence methods have significantly improved the reliability of biometric facial recognition in children. This development represents an important milestone for the forensic work of the Hessisches Landeskriminalamt (HLKA). The preparatory work for the project was carried out in the ATHENE research area Next Generation Biometrics Systems (NGBS).
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Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser visits ATHENE
Together with the Hessian Science Minister Timon Gremmels, the Hessian Digital Minister Prof. Dr Kristina Sinemus and BSI President Claudia Plattner, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser visited our centre. The guests gained insights into how the innovative research at ATHENE is helping to improve cyber security in Germany and make the country a leader in this field.
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ATHENE scientist Prof. Iryna Gurevych receives prestigious ‘Milner Award’ from the Royal Society
The first female scientist in Germany and the first female university professor to receive the prestigious ‘Milner Award’ from the British Royal Society is Prof Iryna Gurevych from TU Darmstadt. She is being honoured for her significant contributions to automatic language processing and artificial intelligence, which ‘combine a deep understanding of human language and cognitive abilities with the latest paradigms of machine learning’, as the world's oldest independent scientific academy announced in London.
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Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger visits ATHENE
As part of her summer tour this year, Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger visited ATHENE. Our researchers presented their findings in the areas of network and software security, disinformation and IT law. The minister also visited the ATHENE Cyber Range, a defence training course for IT employees that combines the advantages of a realistic simulation platform with best practices and updates on cyber innovations.
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LOEWE Top Professorship for Prof. Carsten Binnig
ATHENE researcher Prof. Carsten Binnig has been awarded a LOEWE Top Professorship at the TU Darmstadt. The state of Hesse is supporting the research project "Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI)" as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.
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ATHENE researcher Prof. Max Mühlhäuser retires
Computer researcher Prof. Max Mühlhäuser has taught and researched at TU Darmstadt for almost 25 years. He has been involved in ATHENE since the predecessor centre CASED was founded and is now one of the coordinators of the ATHENE research area User-centered Security and Privacy (UCSP). He will be retiring in a few months.
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ATHENE paper accepted at prestigious S&P
The paper "Investigating Voter Perceptions of Printed Physical Audit Trails for Online Voting", written in collaboration with ATHENE researchers, has been accepted at the prestigious IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P). S&P is the premier forum for leading international experts in research and practice to discuss the latest developments in computer security and electronic privacy.
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Sieben innovative Cybersecurity Startups im Accelerator-Programm SpeedUpSecure am ATHENE-Zentrum
Das Accelerator-Programm „SpeedUpSecure“ am Nationalen Forschungszentrum für angewandte Cybersicherheit ATHENE fördert Startups mit innovativen Lösungen im Bereich Cybersecurity. Sieben Startups aus ganz Deutschland wurden von den vier Inkubatoren für Cybersecurity in Darmstadt, Bochum, Karlsruhe und Saarbrücken ausgewählt und durchlaufen seit Mitte Mai das intensive und gezielte Trainingsprogramm.
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ATHENE researchers present paper at Eurocrypt 2024
Two papers co-authored by ATHENE researcher Prof. Sebastian Faust from TU Darmstadt have been accepted at the prestigious 43rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Eurocrypt for short. Both papers deal with the protection of cryptographic systems against side-channel attacks, in particular masking methods. This involves randomising the chip's calculations in order to hide side-channel information from an attacker.
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