Maria Wirzberger appointed Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at University of Stuttgart

In her new role, Wirzberger will focus on teaching and learning with intelligent systems

Maria Wirzberger was a postdoctoral researcher in the Cyber Valley Rationality Enhancement research group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen.

Rationality Enhancement Educational Theory Computational Algorithms Maria Wirzberger University of Stuttgart

Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz startet in die nächste Runde

Ab 30. März können Projektideen eingereicht werden ‒ Neuer Online-Kurs vermittelt Werkzeuge der Künstlichen Intelligenz

Winfried Kretschmann BWKI Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz Cyber Valley Coding Schülerwettbewerb KI

The Cyber Valley Public Advisory Board elects Deputy Spokesperson

The election took place at the board's third meeting on March 5, 2020

The Cyber Valley Public Advisory Board met for the third time on 5 March 2020 and elected Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Hemel as deputy speaker. Professor Hemel is Director of the World Ethos Institute in Tübingen.

Cyber Valley Public Advisory Board Ulrich Hemel Stellvertretender Sprecher Maschinelles Lernen Tübingen

Neue Stiftungsprofessur „Entrepreneurship in Technologie und Digitalisierung“

Universität Stuttgart bündelt Aktivitäten im Bereich Gründung und Unternehmertum mit neuem Institut

Prof. Alexander Brem hat die neue Stiftungsprofessur der Universität Stuttgart „Entrepreneurship in Technologie und Digitalisierung“ angetreten. Der erfolgreiche Unternehmensgründer Brem war zuvor Professor für Technologiemanagement an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg und zählt zu den forschungsstärksten Betriebswirten im deutschsprachigen Raum.

Cyber Valley Start-up Network welcomes two new members

43IT and eye2you have enhanced the network with two additional fields

The Network promotes exchange between start-ups with an AI-related focus in Baden-Württemberg

Start-Up Network KI MedTech Computervision Objekterkennung neuronale Netzwerke

European Commission Vice-President Vestager visits Cyber Valley

Scientists from the ecosystem are making a decisive contribution to the future of European AI

At a meeting with the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, Baden-Württemberg’s Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann, and the state’s Science Minister Theresia Bauer, scientists welcomed the European Commission’s new Digital Strategy and demanded strong support for research in the field of learning AI.

Vestager EU-Commission AI KI Künstliche Intelligenz Wettbewerb

Bernhard Schölkopf receives Frontiers of Knowledge Award

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Schölkopf for his work that has advanced the field of artificial intelligence by teaching machines the human skill of classifying data

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards Machine Learning Causality Bernhard Schölkopf

Understanding the significance of data

Prof. Steffen Staab appointed new Cyber Valley Professor for “Data Analytics” at the University of Stuttgart

Prof. Steffen Staab has been appointed to the “Data Analytics” Cyber Valley professorship at the University of Stuttgart as of 1 February 2020, and will drive forward the founding of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence. With the internationally recognized and much-cited experts in databases and information systems, there are now four Cyber Valley scientists based at the University of Stuttgart. Staab’s focus is in the area of semantic technology, a branch of research which makes the significance of data easier to understand.

Steffen Staab

Bernhard Schölkopf honoured as one of the leading minds in German AI research

The Director of the Empirical Inference Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, one of the world's leading researchers in the field of machine learning, has been honored in Berlin as one of the top ten influential minds in the history of German AI.

Bernhard Schölkopf Inferenz Kausalität Deep Learning Machine Learning

The Alan Turing Institute meets with scientists from the Cyber Valley ecosystem

Representatives of the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence on Tuesday gained insights into the Cyber Valley initiative

Enquete-Kommission Künstliche Intelligenz zu Besuch im Cyber Valley

Mitglieder des Bundesgremiums gewannen Einblicke in die KI-Forschung und tauschten sich mit führenden Wissenschaftler*innen zu den Chancen und Risiken der künstlichen Intelligenz aus.

Cyber Valley empfängt Delegation aus der französischen Region Grand Est

Experten erhalten Einblick in die Spitzenforschung der Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme

Région Grand Est Staatsministerium Volker Ratzmann Andre Baumann

Cyber Valley Research Fund Board issues second call for proposals

Cyber Valley research groups are eligible to apply for project funding

The Research Fund Board finances independent basic research and allocates funds to innovative project ideas that demonstrate scientific excellence.

Cyber Valley Start-Up Network is expanding

The research consortium is pleased to be adding Colugo to its recently established Start-Up Network

The Tübingen company aims to bring cutting-edge AI to business in the region

Cyber Valley ends third year on a high note at leading global Machine Learning conference

Twenty-seven submissions from Cyber Valley accepted to the upcoming NeurIPS

According to a ranking based on the number of publications at the top global machine learning conferences NeurIPS and ICML from 2009 to 2019, Cyber Valley’s academic partners currently take first place in Europe and Germany. Worldwide, the research consortium ranks 8th place.

ICML Neurips Machine Learning Deep neural networks Bernhard Schölkopf Cyber valley

Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz zeichnet Sieger aus

Schülerteams entwickeln Algorithmen zur Identifizierung von Malaria-infizierten Zellen, zur Lokalisierung von Proteinen und zur Voraussage von Zugverspätungen ‒ „KI-Schule des Jahres“ kommt aus dem Saarland.

Winfried Kretschmann BWKI Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz Cyber Valley Coding Schülerwettbewerb KI

Niki Kilbertus ist "Newcomer des Jahres" 

Der Informatiker ist Doktorand am MPI-IS im Rahmen des Cambridge-Tübinger PhD Fellowship Program.

Die Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) hat im Rahmen des Projektes #KI50: Künstliche Intelligenz in Deutschland – gestern, heute, morgen 10 herausragende Newcomerinnen und Newcomer der deutschen KI-Forschung gekürt.

Newcomer of the Year #AI50 AI Researcher of the Year

Amazon gründet Lablet zur Forschung an Künstlicher Intelligenz in Tübingen

Der Schwerpunkt des Lablets liegt auf der Forschung von fairer, transparenter und erklärbarer Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI). Ziel des neuen Teams ist es, eine Kultur des Austauschs von Forschungsergebnissen in Form von Publikationen, Open-Source-Code und Daten zu etablieren, um Reproduzierbarkeit, Transparenz und Zusammenarbeit zu erleichtern. Um Vertrauen in KI-Systeme aufzubauen und sie zu erklären, strebt das Forscherteam einen stetigen Austausch mit Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft an. Die KI-Forschung im Lablet folgt einem neugiergetriebenen Ansatz, der Wissenschaftlern die volle Freiheit in der Wahl ihrer Forschungsthemen gibt.

Cyber Valley launches Start-Up Network

The Cyber Valley Start-Up Network aims to build a community of entrepreneurs in the field of intelligent systems

The network already counts seven members and invites start-ups to apply for membership.

The Cyber Valley Public Advisory Board elects Spokesperson

Professor Regina Ammicht Quinn is now PAB spokesperson

The election took place at the PAB's second meeting on November 13, 2019

Public Advisory Board Ethics and AI AI research

Fraunhofer Gesellschaft joins Cyber Valley

Cooperation between Germany’s leading research institutions further strengthens Baden-Württemberg as a global hotspot for research on artificial intelligence

Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization Fraunhofer Gesellschaft has joined the Cyber Valley research consortium, which includes the Universities of Tübingen and Stuttgart, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and several of the world’s top indus-try players. For Baden-Württemberg, the cooperation reaffirms the region’s position as one of the world’s leading AI hotspots. Founded by the Fraunhofer Institutes IPA and IAO, the AI innovation center Learning Systems offers medium-sized companies a central point of contact for applied research on artificial intelligence.

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Endoscopic prostate surgery performed on a first human-like phantom

A team of scientists headed by Dr. Tian Qiu, leader of the Cyber Valley Biomedical Microsystems research group, and Professor Peer Fischer from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have made a decisive contribution to improving complex surgical training by developing a very realistic prostate phantom. They then gave the 3D printed model to a medical team from the University of Freiburg, which practiced the surgical removal of the gland. To quantitatively evaluate the results, the group of scientists developed an automatic system to provide feedback to the trainee surgeon immediately after the training session – something that would be impossible with real tissue.

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Color patch could throw self-driving vehicles off track

Researchers send wake-up call to the car industry

A team of researchers in Tübingen show that optical flow systems based on deep neural networks – a likely component of future autonomous cars – are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. The computer vision experts are shaking up the automotive industry by warning car manufacturers around the globe that it could take a simple color pattern to put the brakes on computer vision systems in autonomous cars.

Das neue Cyber Valley Public Advisory Board legt Roadmap fest

Das PAB tagt zum ersten mal in Tübingen

In der ersten Sitzung des neu eingerichteten Public Advisory Boards definierten die Mitglieder die Hauptaufgaben des Gremiums.

Public Advisory Board PAB Öffentlicher Beirat

Cyber Valley establishes Public Advisory Board

The independent committee is involved in the selection of research projects, evaluating them with regard to their ethical and social implications. The Cyber Valley research consortium thus creates an additional element of transparency.

Cyber Valley AI Research

Isabel Valera appointed Group Leader of the new independent Probabilistic Learning Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

The award-winning scientist specializes in research aiming to make machine learning methods more flexible, robust, and fair.

Probalistic Learning Machien Learning maschinelles Lernen Fairness in Machine Learning

Universität Tübingen bei Exzellenzstrategie erfolgreich

Universität verteidigt Exzellenzstatus und wird bis 2026 gefördert

Exzellenzentscheidung Bernd Engler Exzellenzstrategie Universität Tübingen

Bosch is expanding its involvement in Cyber Valley

New AI campus planned for Tübingen

The industrial company is investing 35 million euros and intends to locate up to 700 KI experts there.

Bosch Industry on Campus Tübingen

Scope of Cyber Valley research expanded to include intelligent biomedical microsystems

University of Stuttgart appoints Dr. Tian Qiu, a leading scientist in the field of minimally invasive biomedical microsystems, as Cyber Valley Research Group Leader

Qiu is now the second scientist at the University of Stuttgart to be researching under the Cyber Valley umbrella.

intelligente biomedizinische mikrosysteme Universität Stuttgart Tian Qiu

Cyber Valley präsentiert KI-Spitzenforschung in Berlin

Europas größte Forschungskooperation im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz ist zu Gast auf der traditionellen Stallwächterparty der Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg

Mit dem Motto "Im Herzen Europas" zelebriert die diesjährige Veranstaltung die Stärken des Südwestens, auch in der KI-Forschung.

Körber Prize 2019 goes to Bernhard Schölkopf

The Körber Foundation honors the MPI-IS Director and Cyber Valley Scientist for his ground-breaking research in mathematical methods that have made a significant contribution to helping artificial intelligence reach its most recent heights.

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Körper-Prize Körber Foundation Bernhard Schölkopf Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Eine Bundes- und eine Landesministerin zu Besuch im Cyber Valley in Tübingen

Kompetenzzentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz und Maschinelles Lernen stellte Fortschritte und Forschungsergebnisse vor

Cyber Valley Forscher präsentierten unterschiedliche Forschungsgebiete, um die Vorteile des Maschinellen Lernens für die Gesellschaft darzustellen.

Canada comes to Cyber Valley

Canadian AI experts gain insights into Europe’s biggest research cooperation in the field of AI

As part of the German Federal Foreign Office's Visitors' program, a group of Canadian AI experts visited the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems on Monday in Tübingen.

Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz: Schüler programmieren eigenen Algorithmus

Mehr als 2.500 Teilnehmende bundesweit ‒ In Runde 2 werden eigene Projektideen umgesetzt

Cyber Valley’s machine learning research makes a strong showing on the global stage

Twenty-seven papers accepted at world’s most competitive AI conferences

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Universities of Tübingen and Stuttgart, and the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence demonstrate the strength of the Cyber Valley initiative at two of the world's most competitive AI conferences

Cyber Valley Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems University of Tübingen University of Stuttgart

Minister of Economy Hoffmeister-Kraut visits Cyber Valley

Baden-Württembergs Wirtschaftsministerin Hoffmeister-Kraut betont erneut das Engagement des Landes

Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing, once again emphasised the state's support for Europe's largest research cooperation.

First University Master's Program in Machine Learning in Germany

The University of Tübingen sets up an international program of study with a research emphasis on artificial intelligence

"The University of Tübingen has made societally responsible and relevant research a maxim. We want to educate experts who understand not only the potential of the new technology, but also the risks it poses, i.e. experts who are able to consider them, and minimize those threats."

Maschinelles Lernen Masterstudiengang Universität Tübingen

New height in popularity: IMPRS-IS on track to double size in 2019

"Young, talented people are the ones who will shape our future in the digital world, in science, in business, and in society."

The doctoral program of the Cyber Valley initiative far exceeds expectations. Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Science, Theresia Bauer, is pleased with the high number of applications from all over the world because it shows how attractive the multidisciplinary research landscape in the Stuttgart/Tübingen region is for highly talented young scientists.

IMPRS AI Künstliche Intelligenz Cyber Valley Forschung

Große Resonanz für neuen Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz

Bisher fast 1500 Teilnehmer am Schülerwettbewerb ‒ Mehr als 900 Schulteams sind bereits dabei

2019-03-12_Bundeswettbewerb_KI.pdf

Neues Kooperationsprojekt zw. IAV und MPI-IS

Der Automotive Engineering-Dienstleister IAV und das Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme kooperieren bei der Entwicklung von Algorithmen, um selbstlernende Verfahren in der Automobiltechnik weiter voran zu bringen. Die Forschungskooperation ist eine von mehreren im Rahmen des Cyber Valleys, das den Austausch zwischen anwendungsorientierter Industrieforschung und Neugier getriebener Grundlagenforschung zum Ziel hat.

Regelungstechnik Künstliche Intelligenz Maschinelles Lernen iav intelligente Systeme Cyber Valley

Das Gehirn der Zukunft

Veranstaltungsreihe zu Künstlicher Intelligenz

Die Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung und das Cyber Valley laden ein zu einer Vortragsreihe zu Themen rund um KI, neuronale Netze und autonome Systeme und anschließender Podiumsdiskussion mit Visionärinnen und Visionären aus Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft.

Hertie-Stiftung Cyber Valley KI Max Planck

Cyber Valley-Forscher bei den Science Notes in Tübingen

Wissenschaftliche Vorträge zu Künstlicher Intelligenz in Club-Atmosphäre

Tübingen – Wissenschaft in Club-Atmosphäre mit Livemusik, eine Bühne, auf der Forscher in nur wenigen Minuten allgemeinverständlich ihre Forschungsgebiete vorstellen können: das sind die Science Notes, ein Projekt der Forschungsstelle Präsentationskompetenz des Seminars für Allgemeine Rhetorik der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Es ging wie schon einmal um Künstliche Intelligenz. Die vortragenden fünf Wissenschaftler sprachen in je 15 Minuten darüber, wo die Chancen, Grenzen und Gefahren dieser Technologie liegen und wie sie unser Leben verändern wird. Die Wissenschaftler mussten ihr Themengebiet verständlich, anschaulich und spannend erklären, das war die Voraussetzung, um teilnehmen zu können.

Maschinelles Lernen KI Philipp Hennig

Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz gestartet

Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Cyber Valley Initiative – Schülerinnen und Schüler sollen deutschlandweit eigene KI-Prototypen entwickeln – Registrierung ab sofort möglich

Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz Bosch Universität Tübingen Cyber Valley

Austria's President Van der Bellen visits Cyber Valley

The research consortium presented its state-of-the-art research projects

Cyber Valley goes AI CON

The AI CON is organized by the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) and the research alliance Cyber Valley and takes place for the first time this year. The aim is to bring together leading AI experts from industry and research to explore the opportunities and challenges posed by this technology. Speakers include Bosch experts such as Dr. Michael Bolle and Dr. Christoph Peylo (Head of BCAI) as well as Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, one of the world's leading scientists in the field of machine learning. Speakers from the USA (Carnegie Mellon University), Switzerland (ETH Zurich), Austria, Israel and Great Britain are also present.

Visit by Science Minister Theresia Bauer

Tübingen - On Thursday 26th October, Baden-Württemberg's Science Minister Theresia Bauer visited us at the Institute. Media representatives from the region were also invited. The reason for the event was to present the Cyber Valley Initiative - one of the largest research cooperations in Europe in the field of artificial intelligence - to the press.

Symposium Artificial Intelligence and Society

In the future, artificial intelligent systems will be used practically everywhere, whether as software systems on the internet or as cyber-physical systems in our environment. Artificial intelligence will be used in autonomous vehicles as well as in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. No wonder that research institutions and companies worldwide are working to further boost the intelligence of machines, and that artificial intelligence is considered a key technology of the 21st century that will strongly influence science, business and our everyday lives.

Top researcher appointed Bosch-endowed chair

Bosch endows the chair with 5.5 million euros: Matthias Hein to research machine learning at the University of Tübingen ‒ Björn Andres, expert in artificial intelligence, appointed to Industry on Campus professorship

Bosch is bringing a top researcher in machine learning to the state of Baden-Württemberg: Professor Matthias Hein, 42, is joining the staff at the University of Tübingen thanks to a Bosch-endowed professorship that the company will provide 5.5 million euros to support over ten years as part of Cyber Valley. Hein’s research is on statistical learning for applications relating to image processing and genetics. His focus is on developing reliable and comprehensible learning processes. A case in point is the development of automated decision-making systems that apply machine learning processes to rule out any discriminatory decisions. A current example of such a decision is when a system is more inclined to approve a loan to a man than to a woman. “Such an example shows that machine learning processes can have a positive effect on society,” Hein says. “This is a goal well worth pursuing.”

Cyber Valley attracts research group leaders from around the world

Research cooperation in the field of intelligent systems gains momentum

Stuttgart/Tübingen – Cyber Valley is expanding with ten new research groups that are at the forefront of research in artificial intelligence (AI). The groups receive substantial research funding and are led by top young scientists who were recruited from around the world in a highly competitive process. 'The scientists come from the best universities and research institutions in the world to accelerate their research in the Stuttgart-Tübingen region,'' says Michael Black, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and speaker of Cyber Valley.

Initiative to establish a European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems

Warning about the competition from the USA and China - appeal to politics

Europe's leading researchers in the field of Machine Learning - Professor Bernhard Schölkopf from our Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Professor Mathias Bethge from the University of Tübingen, Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, Professor of Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge as well as researchers from the French National Research Institute for Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), the Universities of Amsterdam, ETH Zurich, Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the French elite university Ecole normale supérieure have issued a joint statement:

International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems starts

The International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems starts with 31 Ph.D. students in the fall 2017 for a new training program.

In autumn 2017, 31 PhD Students will be joining the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS) as part of the Cyber Valley initiative. A new generation of young academics and engineers will start their careers at the IMPRS-IS. They will receive a comprehensive training program, conduct independent research and advance the field of intelligent systems.

Go-ahead for Cyber Valley

Science and industry form one of Europe's largest research partnerships in artificial intelligence

Intelligent systems will shape our future: they could drive us as autonomous cars, help us out in the home on a daily basis or perform medical services as tiny robots. An initiative by the Max Planck Society and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in the Stuttgart-Tübingen area is bringing together partners from science and industry to establish Cyber Valley where systems can be developed that will be capable of performing such feats. Winfried Kretschmann, Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, Theresia Bauer, Minister of Science in Baden-Württemberg and Martin Stratmann, President of the Max Planck Society, together with the other project participants, have launched the initiative on Thursday, 15 December 2016 in Stuttgart's Neues Schloss.