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With the aim of securing the AI functions in highly automated vehicles in the best possible way, automotive manufacturers, suppliers, technology companies and research institutions, including Fraunhofer IAIS, have been working together since summer 2019 in the "KI Absicherung" project. Now the project, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, is completing its work as the first of four projects in the "AI family" of the VDA flagship initiative for autonomous and connected driving. The research results will be presented in Berlin on June 23.

For the design of trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI), companies can now access Munich Re's "CertAI" offering. The validation service enables companies to develop, use or acquire trustworthy AI systems for their business success. The Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS supports CertAI as a technical partner in the development of the offering and contributes its expertise in AI assurance and AI certification.

Ready for quantum technologies: Fraunhofer IAIS supports companies in preparing for the challenges and the changes of the quantum age. For this purpose, the scientists have developed the "IAIS Evo Annealer" with which companies, e.g. from the field of logistics, finance or production, can already use the potential of quantum technologies today without having to access a quantum computer. The technology will be presented for the first time at the "Laser World of Photonics 2022" from April 26 to 29, 2022. The Fraunhofer IAIS exhibit can be found at the joint booth of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in the special area "World of Quantum". Interested companies are invited to bring their own mathematical problems and issues and have them computed on site.

Data protection, risk or compliance management: New AI technologies present companies and developers with new challenges. The Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS has now published a study, which compares the draft of the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) standard for AI management systems and current guidelines.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS received the "Most Influential Scholar Award" in the annual ranking of the online e-magazine AI 2000. By using computer algorythms, the AMiner system generates rankings based on citation frequencies of over 250 000 renowned scientists in the most important publications.

The participating partners met virtually for the kickoff, where they officially launched their speech assistance platform – a platform that is »made in Germany«.

The SPEAKER project for the development of a language assistance platform "made in Germany" was awarded in the innovation competition "Artificial intelligence as a driver for economically relevant ecosystems" of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi).

With the help of artificial intelligence, media content can be systematically analyzed. At IBC 2019, taking place September 13 – 17 in Amsterdam, Fraunhofer IAIS and Fraunhofer IDMT will be presenting various tools for content analysis at Fraunhofer’s booth B80 in hall 8.

From telecommunications to road traffic, from healthcare to the workplace – digital technology is now an intrinsic part of almost every area of life. Yet how can we ensure that developments in this field, especially those that rely on artificial intelligence (AI), meet all our ethical, legal and technological concerns? In a project led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, and with the participation of Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), an interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Universities of Bonn and Cologne are drawing up an inspection catalog for the certification of AI applications. They have now published a white paper presenting the philosophical, ethical, legal and technological issues involved.

Artificial Intelligence for Europe – the AI Night on April 18 in Paris is the first public event of the AI4EU project and an important step towards establishing a European AI community.

In Dortmund and Bonn/Sankt Augustin the Competence Center Machine Learning Rhine-Ruhr ML2R, initiated and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), has been launched.

The Big Data Europe (BDE) project is presenting and releasing the final public version of its open source Integrator Platform at the Webinar scheduled on Thursday 16 November, 15:00 CET. During this Webinar, BDE’s technical team will present what the Big Data Europe Integrator Platform can do, how it does it, and how you can use it in order to derive more value from your data sets. Moreover the project’s latest achievements with regard to Semantifying the Big Data Stack will be showcased.

While earthquakes are raging repeatedly in Italy, Germany is affected more and more by floods. In 2012 there was even a volcanic eruption causing Europe-wide flying bans. Whether natural events, terror attacks, technical defects or human failures – catastrophes occur suddenly and knock out supply and transport routes. In an emergency, good training, quick decision-making ability and networked action decide about human lives and the amount of financial damage. In order to improve the protection concepts, a consortium led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS founded the »2E!SAC – Association for Improving Vital Infrastructures Resiliency in Europe«.

At the CeBIT in Hanover the Fraunhofer IAIS and its team of experts will showcase technology which paves the way for new intelligent products and innovative business models based on a combination of machine learning processes and semantic technology.

Across society, from health to agriculture and transport, from energy to climate change and security, practitioners in every discipline recognise the potential of the enormous amounts of data being created every day. The challenge is to capture, manage and process that information to derive meaningful results and make a difference to people’s lives. The Big Data Europe project has just released the first public version of its open source platform designed to do just that. In 7 pilot studies, it is helping to solve societal challenges by putting cutting edge technology in the hands of experts in fields other than IT.

The third top-level discussion on the Industrial Data Space was held at the Fraunhofer-Forum Berlin on September 23. The goal of the initiative is to enable companies to securely exchange and combine data. It helps companies make their production and business processes fit for digitalization, thus creating a foundation for business model innovation. The Industrial Data Space concept is aimed at establishing comprehensive, cross-sector connectivity in an open data space. This will make it easier for companies to utilize the potential of digitalization in their business models without relinquishing control over their data.

In this age of Industry 4.0 and the “Internet of Things” direct machine-tomachine communication (M2M) is taking on an increasingly important role. The result, however, is that data streams within industry are increasing in volumeat such an alarming rate that they are posing a growing challenge to data processing systems. The first open source software designed to deal with the realtime analysis of massive data streams in distributed systems – with the specific aim of closing this gap – has now been released as part of the EU “Flexible Event Processing for Big Data Architectures” (FERARI) project. The project team is made up of experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS plus five other partners who not only manage its application but also provide users with the support they need to ease them into using the software.

Berlin/Sankt Augustin. 13 startups from the European tech hubs in Berlin, Barcelona, London, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv just started the second round of the EU-accelerator programme EuropeanPioneers. All teams arrived in Berlin for the 3 day “welcome days” (11-13 of August 2015) where the startups were introduced to lean startup and design thinking methodologies. Throughout, the startups also met their coaches and mentors, representatives from the largest German venture capitalists, such as High-Tech Gründerfonds, hub:raum, Techstars METRO Group and many other key players in the start-up scene. The mentioned introductions will help the teams in the coming 8 months with concept and business model development, milestone planning, user testing, team building, marketing and financial support.

In-depth research is the key to all good journalism – but even experienced journalists have trouble dealing with the huge quantities of information available nowadays. A novel research platform promises to help editors obtain a rapid but thorough overview of material on a given subject.

Even students and teachers already familiar with the graphics of the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® programming interface will often shy away from textual programming. The new “EV3 Programming with Java” textbook hopes to change that by introducing Roberta teachers to Java programming techniques. The book has been published as part of Fraunhofer's “Roberta – Learning with robots” initiative and is a joint development project run by the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS and Oracle Academy. In addition to simple programming tasks, readers can also expect to learn about a large-scale Roberta experiment, which highlights the advantages of textual and object orientated programming demonstrated with practical examples.