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In this interview, Christine Pauli, second place winner in the  »Best Talk«  category of the YRS 2022, talks about her presentation, the competition and encourages all doctoral students to apply!

The Green-AI Hub Mobile has exemplary AI solutions on board that show how artificial intelligence helps to save energy and resources. Together with Stefan Demuth, Managing Director of the coordinating Zukunft – Umwelt – Gesellschaft gGmbH, and Professor Oliver Thomas from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Steffi Lemke gave the go-ahead for the Green-AI Hub Mobil.

The project »Applied Quantum Computing« (AnQuC) project funded by the Rhineland-Palatinate state government will come to an end at the end of April 2024. This is why the quantum computing working group has now met with the industrial advisory board, which accompanied the project for two years, for a summary.

On March 12, 2020, 31 outstanding female STEM students from universities all over Germany visited the Fraunhofer Center in Kaiserslautern. The Femtec network scholarship holders, most of them with an international background, got to know both Fraunhofer Institutes better during a varied program.

Optimizing batteries is one of the most important tasks for industry and science. At the Fraunhofer ITWM, the simulation of battery models has been part of day-to-day business for years. The Ministry of Science and Health is now supporting a new project that models the entire manufacturing process.

Together with the University Hospital Frankfurt and the Technical University of Dresden, Fraunhofer IESE »SATURN« is working on an AI application to improve the diagnosis of rare diseases. The technology can make diagnostic suggestions based on expert knowledge and clinical data and thus support doctors and patients.

From crop yield forecasts to trace analysis or an intelligent corporate memory. During his visit, Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport Volker Wissing learned more about the numerous application and research possibilities that are to be further promoted within the new Ai-test center.

From the 18th to 23 February, 36 students in years 10, 11 and 12 from all over Rhineland-Palatinate came together for the Felix Klein Modelling Week. At Gerolstein Youth Hostel, they learn how to solve problems using mathematical modelling and computer simulations based on authentic problems from professional practice.

After six years, Dr Matthias Jung is leaving his position as Deputy Director of our High-Performance Centre due to his professorship in Computer Engineering at the University of Würzburg. His successor, Zai Müller-Zhang, intends to focus on the development of new methods and the transfer of results to industry.

Dr. Stefan Rutzika's team from the Department of Mathematics at RPTU Kaiserslautern investigated the use of the eye-tracking technique in several studies. This involves recording the eye movements of pupils as they work on various tasks. The results can be used to improve learning systems so that they adapt to the individual strengths and weaknesses of the learner.

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on mobile devices has so far been less efficient due to limited computing power, storage space and power supply. To change this, DFKI is working together with the French computer science institute Inria on a new approach to reduce model size and computing effort by using »Frugal AI«.

In the latest episode of the rbb podcast »AI – and now? How we want to live artificial intelligence«, Nadia Kailouli and DFKI expert Aljoscha Burchardt discuss AI and the current shortage of skilled workers. What will happen to the skilled trades when computers become part of more and more areas of our everyday lives?