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Machine Learning| December 29, 2020

Researchers at FU Berlin solve Schroedingers equation with new deep learning method

BIFOLD Principal Investigator Prof. Dr. Frank Noé and Senior Researcher Dr. Jan Hermann of the Artificial Intelligence for the Sciences group at Freie Universität Berlin developed a new, exceptionally accurate and efficient method to solve the electronic Schroedinger equation. Their approach could have a significant impact on the future of quantum chemistry.

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Data Management| December 28, 2020

The BigEarthNet archive now contains Sentinel-1 satellite images

The satellite image benchmark archive BigEarthNet, developed by the Remote Sensing Image Analysis (RSIM) and Database Systems and Information Management (DIMA) groups at TU Berlin, has been enriched by Sentinel-1 image patches. This enhances its potential for deep learning with geo data.

Data Management| December 22, 2020

TU Berlin and DFKI vision paper on data science ecosystem “Agora” was accepted for publication in SIGMOD record

A vision paper by researchers of the Database Systems and Information Management group (DIMA) at TU Berlin and the Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data (IAM) group at DFKI was accepted for publication in SIGMOD Record. In their paper the authors describe their vision towards a unified ecosystem that brings together data, algorithms, models, and computational resources and provides them to a broad audience.

Machine Learning| December 17, 2020

PD Dr. Alexander Meyer appointed as a professor for „Clinical applications of AI and data science“ at Charité

PD Dr. Med. Alexander Meyer, BIFOLD Associated Investigator and Chief Medical Information Officer at German Heart Center Berlin, was appointed as a W2 professor for „Clinical Applications of AI and Data Science“ at Charité Berlin.
His professorship will focus on the application of AI and Data Science in cardiovascular medicine. The Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data supports the professorship with two full-time positions for research assistants.

Machine Learning| December 11, 2020

BIFOLD PI Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Caire receives 2021 Leibniz prize

BIFOLD’s Principal Investigator Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Caire, head of the Chair of Communications and Information Theory (CommIT) at TU Berlin, has been awarded the 2021 Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Prize. On 10 December 2020, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced the recipients of Germany’s most important research award. Each individual award is endowed with a maximum of 2.5 million euros annually.

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Machine Learning| December 10, 2020

New study by BIFOLD researchers: How did COVID-19 impact internet traffic?

BIFOLD PIs Prof. Dr. Anja Feldmann and Prof. Dr. Georgios Smaragdakis (INET group at TU Berlin) published a research study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Internet traffic in the Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’20).

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Machine Learning| December 09, 2020

BIFOLD PI Dr. Samek talks about explainable AI at NeurIPS 2020 social event

BIFOLD Principal Investigator Dr. Wojciech Samek (Fraunhofer HHI) talked about explainable and trustworthy AI at the “Decemberfest on Trustworthy AI Research” as part of the annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020). NeurIPS is a leading international conference on neural information processing systems, Machine Learning (ML) and their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects.

BIFOLD Update| November 27, 2020

Join the symposium on the web and internet policy on december 09, 2020!

BIFOLD Principal Investigator Prof. Dr. Georgios Smaragdakis (Chair of the Internet Network Architectures group at TU Berlin) and Dr. Volker Stocker (Leader of the Work and Cooperation in the Sharing Economy research group at Weizenbaum Institute) are organizing a symposium on web and internet policies.
 

Feel free to register here!

Data Management| November 27, 2020

TUB distributed and operating systems researchers will offer multiple presentations at IEEE Big Data 2020

Three papers by researchers of the Distributed and Operating Systems group at TU Berlin, led by BIFOLD Principal Investigator Prof. Dr. Odej Kao, have been accepted for presentation at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data 2020) and related workshops. The Conference will take place from December 10 – 13, 2020.

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Data Management| November 26, 2020

Charité ICM researcher achieves first place in the MICCAI 2020 CADA-RRE challenge

Matthias Ivantsits of the Institute for Imaging Science and Computational Modelling in Cardiovascular Medicine (ICM) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin was ranked first place in the CADA sub-challenge for rupture risk estimation (RRE) of cerebral aneurysms.