The department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering is home to programs including Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Intelligent Mobile Systems and the MSc in Data Engineering. Information influences the life of the individual and the cohesion of societies and cultures in many different ways. Expertise in these disciplines contribute to Jacobs focus on Mobility.
The Sentinels are a family of European satellites continuously observing the Earth. They gather important information on changes in the atmosphere and climate, vegetation and land use, wave heights and water temperatures. With their help, humanity is able to better prepare and protect itself against natural or self-inflicted disasters. A research project at Jacobs University Bremen aims to better process this data – and to realize new possibilities of use.
Her university has produced 91 Nobel Prize winners, and just around the corner from her workplace, the heart of the digital transformation movement in Silicon Valley thrives. Here, close to San Francisco, is where the future takes shape – and Anca Dragan is playing a significant role in molding it. In Berkeley, at the University of California, the 30-year-old professor leads a research laboratory studying interaction between humans and robots. The Jacobs University graduate is teaching robots to anticipate human actions – and to behave with corresponding prudence.
Their specialization is data analysis: Dr. Michael Sedlmair and Dr.-Ing. Hendro Wicaksono are two new professors who have been strengthening teaching and research at Jacobs University in Bremen since the beginning of the year. Both are information scientists and both cite the international and interdisciplinary nature of the English-medium university as reasons for their move. After a longer research stint at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, Dr. Franceso Maurelli, Professor in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, is the third professor to take up an appointment.
For him, a good day begins with a problem – and it ends the same way: Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu loves to wake up with a question on his mind. Everything is noted down as soon as he gets up, even before toast and coffee. In his office the question is then endowed with form(ulae) on the board. Solved – in a best-case scenario. The first students soon find their way to him. And with a bit of luck, the circuit is completed in the evening, “A more advanced student often comes by and we fight it out on the whiteboard.” Giving him his problem for the next day.
The mobility of goods, people and information is an important building block for any society’s growth. A range of new technologies under the heading “mobility 4.0” is currently revolutionizing our mobility. These include wireless positioning and communication as well as autonomous cars. In a workshop on the theme “Positioning, Navigation and Communications” (WPNC) to be held on October 25 and 26 at Jacobs University in Bremen, international scientists will present the latest research findings - and use a car to demonstrate how far advanced the self-driving car technologies now are.
Robotics experts from Jacobs University work together with European colleagues on an EU-funded project to add more automated functions to underwater robots used in the deep-sea, e.g., for scientific exploration or in off-shore oil and gas production. Named “Effective Dexterous ROV Operations in Presence of Communications Latencies (DexROV)”, the project is funded by the EU within the H2020 framework in the area “Bluegrowth”. The consortium, which is helmed by the Belgian company Space Applications Services, consists in seven partners from six countries, of which four are companies and three are research institutions.
One week of university, one week full of workshops with exciting experiments, outings and discussions at an international level: from Sunday, July 23 until July 29, the Jacobs University campus will become a center for pre-college students from Germany and throughout the world. Approximately 100 pre-college students are taking part in the international Summer Camp, jointly organized by VDI, Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V., and Jacobs University. The objective of the Summer Camp is to inspire young talent to study and to raise awareness of global issues.
Research by Peter Baumann, Professor of Computer Science at Jacobs University, has been recognized once again.
Sie haben Elektrobauteile und Bienenflügel unter dem Mikroskop untersucht, Gewässerproben analysiert, Solarzellen gebaut und Heißluftballons steigen lassen. Für 96 Schülerinnen und Schüler aus 16 Nationen war diese Woche spannend und erlebnisreich. Sie alle eint, dass sie am Internationalen Summercamp des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) und der Jacobs University teilgenommen haben.
Das Focus Area Mobility geht um das Verstehen und die Erforschung der stetig anwachsenden globalen Bewegungen von Daten, Informationen, Gütern und auch Menschen. Sowohl der Handel als auch die Produktion werden immer internationaler.
Industrial Engineering and Management at the English-language Jacobs University – one of five Bachelor Programs in the Focus Area Mobility at the private university. It is about understanding and researching the continuously growing global movements of data, information, goods, and people.
To Microsoft? To Google? To Facebook? Or go on for a doctorate? Successful graduates of the program for a master’s degree in data engineering at the prestigious English-language Jacobs University can pick and choose where they want to work after getting their master’s degree. Rahul Bhat from India and Tom Wiesing from Germany are also experts in big data. They and their fellow students are rare – and are sought after all around the world.
Zu Microsoft? Zu Google? Zu Facebook? Oder doch lieber eine Promotion anschließen? Erfolgreiche Absolventen des Master-Studiengangs Data Engineering an der renommierten, englischsprachigen Jacobs University können es sich aussuchen, wo sie nach Beendigung des Master-Studiums arbeiten. Auch der gebürtige Inder Rahul Bhat und Tom Wiesing aus Deutschland werden zu Experten in „Big Data“. Sie und ihre Kommilitonen sind rar – und gefragt auf der ganzen Welt.
Nie zuvor in der Menschheitsgeschichte wurden so schnell so viele Daten erzeugt. Sie werden immer mehr zu einer wertvollen Ressource. Doch gleichzeitig erschwert die stetig wachsende Datenflut, dieses „Gold“ der digitalen Revolution zu heben. Dr. Peter Baumann, Professor für Informatik an der Bremer Jacobs University, macht die Daten nutzbar – etwa zur besseren Vorhersage von Naturereignissen. Er ist Hochschullehrer, Wissenschaftler und Unternehmer.
Diskussionen im Internet sind kaum zu erfassen, sei es die Kontroverse um das Handelsabkommen TTIP oder die Debatte um Flüchtlinge: Sie laufen manchmal über Jahre, die Zahl der Diskussionsbeiträge geht in die Millionen. Ein neues Schwerpunktprogramm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) soll für Klarheit sorgen. Die Jacobs University ist maßgeblich daran beteiligt.
A delegation of Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technologies (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) headed by the president of SIAT Professor Jianping Fan has recently visited Jacobs University to get an overview of the robotics research activities and to establish new collaboration in research and education.
Absolvent der Jacobs University unter den Top 30 der Nachwuchstalente in Europa Erstmals hat das renommierte US-Wirtschaftsmagazin Forbes eine Liste der 30 einflussreichsten jungen Menschen in Europa unter 30 Jahre erstellt. Zu den „30 under 30“ zählt Cornel Amariei, der während seines Studiums an der Jacobs University eine Brille für sehbehinderte Menschen entwarf, die die Umwelt scannt und dem Träger die Umgebung beschreibt.
The EU project “Cognitive Autonomous Diving budDY” (CADDY) has successfully finished field trials in Biograd na Moru, Croatia.
Forschern der Jacobs University in Bremen ist nun ein Durchbruch in der Mensch- Maschine-Kommunikation gelungen: Erstmals konnten sie einen Unterwasser-Roboter mit Hilfe von Gesten navigieren. Die Feldtests fanden im Rahmen des EU-geförderten Projektes CADDY „Cognitive Autonomous Diving buddy“ statt.
Was ist Big Data? Wie funktioniert das? Und welchen Nutzen können wir daraus ziehen? Diese Fragen sind heutzutage nicht mehr wegzudenken aus der gesellschaftlichen Diskussion. In einer TV-Dokumentation erklären der Informatiker Dr. Peter Baumann und sein Team die wichtigsten Herausforderungen rund um Big Earth Data. Das ist ihnen so gut gelungen, dass der Film nun beim internationalen "Science Film Festival" mit dem zweiten Hauptpreis ausgezeichnet wurde.
Third jacobsHack! event will be largest ever
Student programmers from all over the world will meet on October 17 and 18 to battle out jacobsHack! They have 24 hours to program a new creative software and take home one of the prices, worth € 2000. The competition is supported by companies like Google, SAP, Microsoft or Rocket Internet.
The project MORPH, funded by the European Union, aims at affording marine scientist and commercial operators a revolutionary tool for marine habitat mapping in complex underwater 3D environments. In the Azores a team led by Prof. Andreas Birk has succesfully tested methods developed in the Jacobs robotics group.
The International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) is an important annual academic meeting covering advances in robotics. 150 participants visited Jacobs University and met up with the Jacobs robotics group.
EU-funded research project Earth Server, aimed at making Big Earth Data more easily accessible, enters second phase.
Jacobs University is at the helm of the EU-funded Earth Server project which unites partners* from Greece, the United Kingdom, Italy, the USA, Australia and Germany. With an overall volume of €2.84m supported by the European Union’s H2020 program, the project – now in its second phase – aims at making gigantic Big Data sets generated from Earth Science observation more readily and easily available to a wide range of users across different platforms by using and also establishing standardized methods.
Robotics experts from Jacobs University will be working together with European colleagues on a new EU-funded project to add more automated functions to underwater robots used in off-shore oil and gas production.
Microsoft Corporation has awarded a stipend of €1,500 to two Computer Science (CS) students at Jacobs University. Petre Munteanu and Alina Dima, both from Romania and in their third year at Jacobs University, have received the stipend for their academic achievements.
