Exploring the opportunities and challenges of “AI in research and teaching” was the focus of this year’s institute retreat, held at Stift Sankt Georgen. Over two days, professors, postdocs, doctoral candidates, alumni, and students came together to exchange ideas on the potential of AI in academia. The event concluded with an action plan.
Funding has been approved for an Austrian competence center on Autonomic Resilience in Dynamic Networked Systems (ARC), led and hosted by Lakeside Labs GmbH. With a four-year budget of € 22.8 million, collaborative and strategic research will be conducted to strengthen the resilience of energy systems, manufacturing facilities, and organizations.
The Mobile Systems Group of the University of Klagenfurt held a workshop on scientific writing. They discussed the typical parts of a paper along with specific challenges and practiced them in group work.
A workshop about communication in swarms took place in Klagenfurt in mid-July. Invited speakers and other experts discussed questions at the interface of robotics, distributed systems, and communication technology.
A panel on the next generation of mobile communication systems was held in Klagenfurt. Experts from two network operators, a chip vendor, and research institutions discussed the opportunities and challenges of 5G.
Austria establishes a test field for 5G mobile systems. It can be used by companies and research institutes to advance their prototypes and products. The concept was presented in a press conference at the ministry for transport, innovation, and technology this week.
An interdisciplinary workshop on self-organization and swarm intelligence in cyber physical systems was held at Lakeside Labs this week. Experts presented their work and discussed open issues in this exciting field.
Samira Hayat and I attended re:publica 2017 in Berlin. It was an exciting event not least because Samira gave a very personal talk about drones and their application in disaster response.
Samira Hayat from my team told her personal story at this year’s TED event at CERN and reported on our research activities in the field of multi-drone systems.
Written by Christian Bettstetter. Photos by Christian Philipp for Lakeside Labs. The Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems and Lakeside Labs opened their doors to the public. About 120 visitors informed themselves about research in mobile systems, pervasive computing, self-organizing systems, multimedia systems, and smart grids.