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For the eighth time, highly motivated coders gathered at "hackaTUM" to work on exciting future-oriented projects with leading industry partners. [read more]

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is celebrating the official launch of the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI). As an integrative research institute, MDSI will pool the expertise of more than 60 professors in the fields of data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. [read more]

In the future, master's students from both universities will be able to obtain a master's degree in Data Science at the University of Queensland in addition to their degree in Informatics at TUM. The aim of the double degree programs is to incorporate the strengths of the study programs of the… [read more]

The chair for Human-Centered Technologies for Learning (Prof. Enkelejda Kasneci) offers a course on "AI-assisted writing: the new way to get ahead" as part of the TUM Project Weeks. [read more]

Epidemics have immediate and long-term effects on people worldwide. In March 2023, young researchers from Africa and Europe will deepen their understanding of the mathematical fundamentals of infectious disease modeling. [read more]

Michael Jungmair from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) has been awarded one of the coveted Google PhD Fellowships 2024 in the field of Software Systems. He wants to develop a new, powerful method to integrate and optimize user-defined code in database queries. [read more]

Professor Gudrun Klinker and Professor Nassir Navab from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology receive the Career Impact Award of the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2024 of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [read more]

The Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (The MICCAI Society) presents Professor Daniel Rückert with the Enduring Impact Award 2024. He received the award at the MICCAI conference, which took place from October 6 to 10, 2024, in Marrakech, Morocco. [read more]

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has achieved its highest ever position in the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings. It has improved again, moving up four positions to 26th place in the world. This once again puts it at the top in the European Union. [read more]

Science is exciting and interests people - the Open Day at the Garching research campus proved this impressively. Thousands of guests took the opportunity to take a look inside otherwise closed laboratories and research facilities and have the work of the researchers explained to them. [read more]

Humans and animals move - unconsciously - particularly economically by using the natural vibrations of their bodies. A new tool developed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is now able to use this knowledge for the first time to make robots move more efficiently. [read more]

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed robotic trousers that enable people to walk more easily while expending measurably less energy. The aim is to keep frail individuals and in particular the elderly mobile and healthy for longer. “You can walk slowly with the shorts but you can also jog,” says TUM Professor… [read more]

Three students from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology want to use innovative technology to make life easier for people who are hard of hearing. They will be presenting their student project Sonovision at the electronica trade fair in November 2024. [read more]

Nursing care robots, autonomous driving, digital twins: all of these high-tech applications will play an essential role for the 6G mobile communications standard. The first commercial 6G networks are expected to be available as of 2030. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich and TU Dresden are developing the fundamental mechanisms. [read more]

Robotics and AI researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) will work with physically impaired and disabled people from the Pfennigparade Foundation in the future. Over the next three years, the aim is to develop technologies to make their everyday life easier. [read more]