In a keynote talk at the SDPS workshop on „Emerging Technologies for Future Engineers“ held at Universidad Europa in Madrid, November 25-26, 2019, I presented „A Vision of Industry 4.0: Collaborative Smart Product Ideatation and Customization“. Starting with a characterization
Horizon 2020 project ICP4Life successfully concluded December 2018
After four years of intensive research and development, project ICP4Life, which was funden under the Horizon 2020 Programme, came to a successfull end. The project team developed an integrated, collaborative platform comprising three main components supporting the following activities: Creation and
SDPS-Workshop „Accountability of Artificial Intelligence“, Bologna 2018
At the SDPS-Workshop „Accountability of Artificial Intelligence“ held in Bologna in December 2018, I gave an invited presentation on „Prospects and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence“. The proceedings are openly accessible from the SDPS site.
Workshop on Smart Data Systems and Applications, Malaga, Nov. 14, 2017
Co-located with ICSOC 2017, we organized a workshop on Smart Data Systems and Applications at the University of Malaga. Smart data systems and applications support the processing and integration of data into a unified view from disparate Big Data sources, data warehouses, sensors
June 12, 2017, the expert group on Intelligent Education Networks ran its 2nd EdTec Start-up Dialog
As part of the Federal Government’s 2017 Digital Summit (formerly National IT Summit), the Expert Group on Intelligent Education Networks organized its 2nd Start-up Dialogue in Mannheim. Start-ups, young companies and junior academics were invited to submit their technological ideas, concepts, mock-ups, prototypes and
Collaboration is a key to innovation
I was one of about fifty experts invited to the acatech symposium „Collaboration as the key to innovation“ that was held in the premises of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy in Berlin September 5th 2017. The key question
National IT Summit Nov. 2016 in Saarbrücken
This year’s IT summit was governed by the headline „Learning and Acting in a Digital World“, maybe somehow influeced by our project group’s recommendations about Smart Education Networks. A few members of the project group including myself attended the summit
edu-sharing.net receives Best Practice Award at CeBIT 2016
edu-sharing-net’s education cloud project was the Best Practice Award winner in category education organized by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy’s initiative Intelligent Networking. The award was delivered during CeBit 2016 i Hannover.
Invited talk at „Smart e-Learning and Enterprise Development Seminar“ held in Pinghu, China
April 27, 2016 I gave an invited presentation about our view of a topical e-learning ecosystem at the „Smart e-Learning and Enterprise Development Seminar“ that Prof. Shen from Shanghai Jiao Tong University had organized in Pinghu, China. Renowned speakers from Australia,
edu-sharing won Best Practice Award for Intelligent Networking
edu-sharing won the Best Practice Award for Intelligent Networking in the education sector among numerous projects published on the Open Innovation Platform. This platform was launched in 2015 by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy to foster its initiative Intelligent Networking and provide