Minds, Media, Machines Newsletter - February 2022
You can find our current newsletter and all the latest news about Minds, Media, Machines here: Minds Media Machines Newsletter February 2022
BBDC 2022
On 01.03.2022 the time has finally come: The "Bremen Big Data Challenge" enters its seventh round! The "Bremen Big Data Challenge" (BBDC) is an annual programming competition on the topic of data analysis for all students at universities in Bremen and the surrounding area. The BBDC is sponsored by "JUST ADD AI", "neuland - Büro für Informatik" and "Die Sparkasse Bremen". It is supported by [...]
The University of Bremen is an official sponsor of the ICASSP
We are very pleased to announce that the University of Bremen and the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP), chaired by our MMM Chair Prof. Dr. Haizhou Li, are now officially joining forces to advance research in this field! The University of Bremen acts as supporting organization for the ICASSP 2022 [...]
Minds, Media, Machines Newsletter - December 2021
You can find our current newsletter and all the latest news about Minds, Media, Machines here: MMM-Newsletter_December 2021
New report on Bremen research into neuro-speech prostheses: "When thoughts become speech"
MMM spokesperson Prof. Tanja Schultz's team at the Cognitive Systems Lab has succeeded in making audible speech from brain signals via loudspeakers for the first time. The full article (WFB Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen) can be found here: https://www.wfb-bremen.de/de/page/stories/bremer-erfolgsgeschichten/Wenn-Gedanken-zu-Sprache-werden
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 [...]
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.
MMMIGS speaker wins prize for outstanding doctoral supervision
Rolf Drechsler, spokesperson for the Minds, Media, Machines Integrated Graduate School, has been awarded the prize for outstanding doctoral supervision by the University of Bremen. Another first prize went to political scientist Heiko Pleines. MMM member Andreas Breiter received one of five second prizes. Press release of the University of Bremen
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 [...]
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 [...]
