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CROSSING Spring Retreat 2017
The annual Frühjahrsretreat of the special research field CROSSING headed by CRISP speaker Prof. Johannes Buchmann took place in Bendorf am Mittelrhein this year. The participating professors and scientific employees of CROSSING used the two days for an intense exchange and drawing up further collaborations within the special research field.
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CROSSING Technologiesymposium bringt Industrie und Wissenschaft zusammen
The profile sector CYSEC of the TU Darmstadt with its special research area CROSSING hosted a technology symposium, in which business representatives could get to know the scientific contents and goals of CROSSING.
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European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI)
From the 26th until the 28th of April 2017, scientists came together in Málaga, Spain in order to discuss the newest research results regarding "Ambient Intelligence". Dr. Reiner Wichert, the managing director of CRISP and Dr. Andreas Braun, Fraunhofer IGD, together were Co-Chairs of the Program Committee.
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Darmstadt becomes »Digital Hub for Cyber Security«
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has declared the Frankfurt-Darmstadt region as one of the most important junctions for the digital transformation of the economy, in the framework of the "Digital Hub Initiative", Darmstadt will hereby take over the role as the Digital Hub for Cyber Security, in addition to the Digital Hub for FinTech in Frankfurt am Main, which was named in 2016.
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30 Years Fraunhofer IGD
It all began in 1987 with a small workgroup in Darmstadt which was established by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Today, 30 years later the Fraunhofer IGD with its four locations in Darmstadt, Rostock, Graz and Singapore is an internationally leading research institution for applied visual computing.
read moreCRISP Researchers teach Rescue Robot how to speak
CRISP researcher Prof. Matthias Hollick, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt introduced the robot "Tracker" to representatives of the Hessian state government, which was developed as part of the LOEWE focus NICER.
The rescue robot should support human rescuers in case of emergencies.The machine can produce 3-D images with a laser scanner or detect possible human victims by means of an IR-camera.