Prof. Urs Gasser is the founding dean of the new TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology and is also the rector of the Hochschule für Politik München. In this interview he explains why values and technology must be treated as inseparable.
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has chosen Prof. Nassir Navab as an IEEE Fellow for
2022. Navab is head of the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures and Augmented Reality at TUM. The
IEEE recognizes Navab's outstanding achievements in augmented reality-based applications in medicine and
computer-aided interventions
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A TUM Team has developed software that lets race cars compete in motorsports without a driver. The TUM
Autonomous Motorsport Team was able to take 1st and 2nd place at the Autonomous Challenges in Indianapolis
and most recently at the CES in Las Vegas. Does this technology have the potential to revolutionize racing?
Markus Lienkamp, Professor for automotive technology, tells us the answer
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MIRMI reached crucial milestones thanks to the continuous commitment of all its members and the support of
the MIRMI administrative team in 2021. Thanks to the Science Board, which presented its strategy to the TUM
President in spring and also advocated for incentives for the MIRMI community on this occasion, MIRMI will be
able to award our own seed funds for integrative research for the first time in the history of the Institute. The
double-counting of the third-party funds (raised by MIRMI PIs) at MIRMI and Home School is another one of
these milestones. Beyond that, some PIs jointly…
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For cardiac arrest victims, minutes can mean the difference between life and death. It’s vital that medical
emergency response teams get to them quickly, but in more remote, rural areas this can sometimes be difficult.
“HORYZN” is an initiative of students of the Institute of Flight System Dynamics, chaired by Prof. Florian
Holzapfel, at TUM and has developed a remote-controlled, AI-supported rescue drone with a defibrillator on
board for just such emergencies
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The Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts is launching a new funding program to strengthen
corona research at medical faculties and university hospitals in Bavaria. This was announced by
Science Minister Bernd Sibler in Munich in mid-December. According to Sibler, the funding volume
totals 6 million euros.
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A method to shed unprecedented views into skin diseases: That was the goal when the INNODERM project was
launched in 2016 under the leadership of TUM. It has yielded a novel imaging modality that can see deeper and
with higher discrimination beneath the skin surface than any competing method today. The project has now been
chosen as the winner of the European Commission’s 2021 ECS Innovation Award
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Prof. Johannes Fottner and Professor Magnus Fröhling received the TUM Sustainability Award on behalf of the
CirculaTUM research network during the Dies Academicus. The interdisciplinary network was founded to bundle
the diverse competencies of TUM for a resource-efficient circular economy and to actively contribute to the
corresponding industrial and societal transformation. The prize honors research work, technical innovations, and
approaches to solutions that can make decisive contributions to the sustainable transformation of the economy
and society and to overcoming the climate…
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MIRMI’s main building at Heßstraße 134, 80797 in Munich will be renovated. The renovation will take approximately 3 years. During this time, the offices and laboratories have been relocated to Munich and Garching. MIRMI’s new addresses are Georg-Brauchle-Ring 58-62, 80992 Munich, Carl-Zeiss-Straße 8, 85748 Garching, and Parkring 11-13, 1. Stock, 85748 Garching.
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The Indy Autonomous Challenge was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday – a race completely without drivers. Nine teams from universities around the world competed against one another with race cars controlled using Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Technical University of Munich (TUM) team made the best time with an average speed of 218 kilometers per hour. That won the young researchers first place and a cash prize of one million US dollars.
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