In all areas of economy and society information plays a central role: We are surrounded by an increasing number of intelligent technical information systems which are equipped with capabilities like interaction, environmental awareness and self-adaptation.
The KIT Center Information · Systems · Technologies (KCIST) investigates and designs complex adaptive, technical systems for a secure and efficient handling of information, based on competences like algorithmics, software engineering, cloud computing and scientific computing, secure communication systems, and big data technologies, as well as intuitive human-machine interfaces, human centered robotics, industrial robotics and automation. Hence, it bundles interdisciplinary competences across KIT-divisions, in particular from informatics, economics, electrical and mechanical engineering, information technology, as well as social science. The major objective of the center is to promote research and innovation as well as technology transfer between KIT and its partners in academia and industry both at a national and an international level.
March 31, 2020
Professor Peter Sanders, Institute of Theoretical Informatics, received an ERC Advanced Grant for the Project “ScAlBox - Engineering Scalable Algorithms for the Basic Toolbox”. Goal of the project is the design and development of algorithms and software libraries able to handle huge data sets and to scale to millions of processors working in parallel.
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March 2020
Professor Peter Sanders (Institute of Theoretical Informatics) received together with Ulrich Meyer (University of Frankfurt) the ESA Test-of-Time Award 2019. ESA is the premier European conference on algorithms research. The ESA Test-of-Time Award recognizes excellent papers in algorithms research that were published in the ESA proceedings 19 to 21 years ago and are still influential and stimulating for the field today.
March 2, 2020
Main goal of the NFDI is to make existing scientific and research data available to the national and international scientific community in a structured, networked, well-organized and sustainable way. FIZ Karlsruhe and KIT are entrusted with the establishment of the Directorate of the National Research Data Infrastructure (Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur).
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January 31, 2020
On Friday, 31 January 2020, the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) unanimously elected Professor Dorothea Wagner (Institute of Theoretical Informatics) as its new chairperson.
January 1, 2020
In his New Year's speech, the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg talked about three impressive encounters in 2019, including one with Professor Tamim Asfour during his visit to the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics at KIT last November.
Text and video of the speech (German only)
Nr. 02-2020 April 2020 (German, PDF, 1.029 KB)
Newsletter
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