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Ethics- and Technology Advisory Board of the Digital City Darmstadt
The Digital City Darmstadt GmbH is as of now supported by an ethics and technology advisory board. Chairman of the council is deputy CRISP spokesman Prof. Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT and CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, in his function as chief digital officer (CDO) of the city of science Darmstadt. Other members of the council are among others the CRISP scientists Prof. Peter Buxmann and Prof. Christian Reuter, both CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt and Prof. Dieter Fellner, Fraunhofer IGD.
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A Recipe againt the Might of Quantum Computers
A team of CRISP-speaker Professor Johannes Buchmann of TU Darmstadt developed a quantum computers secure procedure for digital signatures, which is now a common internet standard.
Dramatic advances in the development of quantum computers, is a cause for concern regarding the future security of the internet, as the superfast computers can hack common encoding and digital signatures in no time at all. Hence, researcher world-wide are developing new security procedures that are supposed to be immune against attacks from quantum computers, so-called post-quantum-cryptography.
CRISP Speaker is invited to the Bundestag as an Expert
The 11. session of their legislative period the Committee of Digital Agenda deals with the current state of the development of quantum computers. CRISP speaker Prof. Johannes Buchmann, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, took part in the public hearing as one of seven invited experts.
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Prof. Mira Mezini is being honored as an Outstanding Personality with Migration Background
CRISP-Researcher and vice president of TU Darmstadt, Prof. Mira Mezini, is being honored as an outstanding personality with a migration background by the Hessian Minister for social and integration issues, Stefan Grüttner, in castle Biebrich in Wiesbaden.
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Eurographics Gold Medal 2018 goes to Prof. Dieter W. Fellner
For his extraordinary carrier and merits for the advancements of computer graphics, Prof. Dr. techn. Dieter W. Fellner, Fraunhofer IGD, was honored and distinguished. However the international research organization for computer graphics didn't award Fellner the gold medal just for his research: He was also honored for the leading position he has been holding for years at the Eurographics Association.
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