Groundbreaking research success: Speaking by imagining
Major research successes require international collaboration: the Cognitive Systems Lab (CSL) at the University of Bremen, the Department of Neurosurgery at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and the ASPEN Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University (USA) have been working on a neuro-speech prosthesis for several years. The aim is to translate speech-related neuronal processes in the brain directly into audible speech. This goal has now [...]
Dr. Mehran Goli and Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler awarded with Best Paper Award of FDL 2021
At the "Forum on Specification & Design Languages (FDL)", which took place from 8 to 10 September 2021 hybrid, the scientists Dr. Mehran Goli and Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler, both from the DFKI research department Cyber-Physical Systems, received the Best Paper Award for their publication entitled "VIP-VP: Early Validation of SoCs Information Flow Policies using [...]
Call for Proposals: MMM PI-Seed-Grants
The MMM Seed Grant Initiative is entering its third round of calls! This round introduces two separate funding lines: one for MMM PIs and one for MMM PostDocs. The current call for MMM PI Seed Grant applications aims to support scientific collaborations between established MMM members (MMM PIs) that go significantly beyond the goals of [...]
Minds, Media, Machines Newsletter - September 2021
You can find our current newsletter and all the latest news about Minds, Media, Machines here: MMM-Newsletter_0921.
Dissertation Prize for Franziska Eberle
For her thesis "Scheduling and Packing Under Uncertainty" Franziska Eberle receives the Dissertation Award 2021 of the Society for Operations Research. She received her PhD in the research group "Combinatorial Optimization and Logistics" with Nicole Megow and started a postdoctoral position at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences on Sept. 1, 2021. Congratulations!
DFG funds 17 new Research Training Groups
The German Research Foundation (DFG) is establishing 17 new Research Training Groups (RTGs) to further strengthen early career researchers. This was decided by the Grants Committee for Research Training Groups, which met via video conference due to the coronavirus pandemic. The new RTGs will initially be funded for four and a half years from fall 2021 with a total of around 92 million euros. One of them is the Research Training Group "KD²School - Design [...]
MindTalks
Dear all, the series of MindTalks, which started in winter term 2019/2020, will continue in summer term. Due to the present situation it will again take place via Zoom. Information about dates, speakers, titles, Zoom-access can be seen on the attached poster respectively the website http://www.bernstein.uni-bremen.de/mindtalks We are looking forward to see you on [...]
MMM Seed Grants: Successful applications in the first round
The applications for the first round of the MMM Seed Grant call were reviewed and decided by the Steering Committee. Two outstanding projects from a total of 5 MMM working groups were selected. We are very pleased to present the successful applications and congratulate the winners! Our heartfelt congratulations go to: Prof. Dr. Bettina von [...]
