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Robots are supposed to make more tasks easier for humans in the future. But how can we get them to independently master new tasks and cooperate with us? With the new Master's program Autonomous Systems and Robotics with German as language of instruction, the Department of Computer Science combines modern computer science methods with knowledge from classical engineering education. Through close cooperation with other relevant departments at the TU, the program offers a particularly diverse range of courses. What exactly awaits the students and what job opportunities do the graduates have? Professor Jan Peters from the Department of Computer Science provides answers about the new degree program.

Die TU Darmstadt ist beim aktuellen Hochschulranking der Zeitschrift „WirtschaftsWoche“ fünfmal in der Spitzengruppe vertreten. Im Vergleich zum Vorjahr sind die Platzierungen nahezu unverändert. Am besten schneidet die TU Darmstadt im Fach Wirtschaftsinformatik ab. Hier belegt sie nach der TU München den zweiten Platz. In den Fächern Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen und Elektrotechnik ist die TU Darmstadt unverändert jeweils auf Platz vier, im Maschinenbau weiterhin auf Platz sechs. Im Fach Informatik büßt die TU Darmstadt im Vergleich zum Vorjahr einen Platz ein und ist dort nun ebenfalls auf Platz sechs zu finden.

Team Hector gewinnt erneut RoboCup Rescue German Open

Das Rettungsrobotik-Team Hector vom Fachgebiet Simulation, Systemoptimierung und Robotik hat auch den diesjährigen RoboCup Rescue German Open Wettbewerb in Dortmund gewonnen.Trotz wachsender Konkurrenz und schwieriger Aufgaben sicherten sich die Wissenschaftler*innen außerdem die Auszeichnungen für „Best in Class Autonomy“ und „Best in Class Mobility“.

Ph.D. students awarded at the Flagship Conference ACM CHI 2023

With their publication on smartphone authentication, Leon Würsching, Florentin Putz and Steffen Haesler from TU Darmstadt won a Best Paper Award at the ACM CHI 2023 Conference. CHI is the top international conference for Human-Computer Interaction, which took place this year in Hamburg.

Dominik L. Michels, Professor of Intelligent Algorithms in Modeling and Simulation at Darmstadt University of Technology, was recently elected as corresponding member to the Mathematical and Natural Sciences Class of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony (Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen).

Communications Engineering and Data Science and Design Thinking and Product Development

The Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programs at Bachelor's and Master's level provide students with in-depth knowledge of the focus areas “Communications Engineering and Data Science” and “Design Thinking and Product Development”, combining online learning at the home university with a study visit on campus at Aalto University. The application deadline is 15 May 2023.

Applications invited until 21 May

Are you a female student in computer science, electrical engineering, or information technology making waves in your field of study? Apply for the Female Student Travel Award 2023 by 21 May and join us in celebrating the 10th generation of award winners during the Ruzena Bajcsy Lecture in June.

AI Innovation Lab of hessian.AI opened at GSI Helmholtzzentrum in Darmstadt

Hesse’s Minister for Digital Affairs, Professor Dr Kristina Sinemus, opened the AI Innovation Lab of the Hessian Centre for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI) at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt today (March 20). The project of the TU Darmstadt, which is funded with around 10 million euros, serves as a contact point for companies, start-ups, and science with the central aim of providing access to an AI supercomputer infrastructure. In the laboratory, AI systems and applications can be developed, trained, tested, and evaluated.

Financial boost for innovative ideas from the teachers, researchers and students across the Unite! alliance

The Unite! Seed Fund aims to achieve the maximum potential of Unite! It is envisioned to provide financial support to innovative, co-creative and collaborative ideas from teachers, researchers and students across the Unite! alliance. The Seed Fund intends to support exploration and development of attractive and diverse activities and projects, to help secure either the additional funds for a project or to carry out cooperation on joint, ambitious and innovative ideas within the alliance.

Zum 14.3.2023 lud PEASEC das Konsortium des Projekts Agriregio zum gemeinsamen Austausch in Darmstadt ein. Bei dem ersten Präsenztreffen aller Projektbeteiligten stellten sich die Teilnehmer bisherige Neuentwicklungen und Fortschritte gegenseitig vor. Das Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft fördert das Projekt, in dem ein innovatives Konzept für dezentrales und resilientes Edge Computing zur Praxisreife entwickelt und erprobt wird. Damit soll die digitalisierte Datenerfassung und -nutzung in landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben widerstandsfähiger gemacht und die sicherheitskritische Infrastruktur auf dem Sektor Ernährung geschützt werden.

Publication in “Nature Machine Intelligence”

A team of researchers from TU Darmstadt, hessian.AI and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence has presented a method that greatly simplifies the provision of human feedback to learning software. The work is published in the current issue of “Nature Machine Intelligence”.

The one-time payment of 200 euros for students is expected to be available for application via the federal government's central application portal starting in mid-March.

The Unite! student video contest offers you the opportunity to share your cultural reality and win tickets to the Unite! Student Festival held this June in Lisbon. Deadlines go from 30 March to the 9th of April depending on the university.

The goal of this contest is to show the diversity and interculturality that define the Unite! student community. The short film (max. length 3 minutes) will be shown as an example of common and uncommon students’ life from Unite!’s nine partner universities. It should highlight the student’s personal life and habits, and make other universities’ students interested in the Unite! diversity.

NHR4CES starts campaign “High-Speed 4 Science”.

With the campaign “High-Speed 4 Science”, NHR4CES – National High Performance Computing for Computational Engineering Science – is currently drawing nationwide attention to its freely accessible service offerings in high-performance computing. At TU Darmstadt, too, posters, flyers and info screens with the slogan can be found in many places.

Researchers of the LOEWE center emergenCITY investigate motivation for sharing

What about the willingness to share privately generated electricity during a prolonged power outage? Researchers from various departments at TU Darmstadt at the LOEWE center emergenCITY have investigated this. The recently published study yields surprising results.