Faculty IV - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Working Together Against Disinformation on the Net

Together with the investigative platform CORRECTIV, researchers are developing AI-supported assistance tools to enable members of the public to quickly and effectively detect false information

The rise of fake news, disinformation, and hate speech on the Internet resulting from the rapid development of artificial intelligence represents a growing threat to democracy. The hope that artificial intelligence alone could remedy this by automatically learning to identify false information has proven a false one. Even today, machine-learned…

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Hector Science Award for Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller

Müller is Professor for Machine Learning at FAC IV as well as Director of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). The prestigious prize is endowed with 150,000 euros.

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Prof. Dr. Fatma Deniz elected TU Vice-President for the responsibilities of digitalization and sustainability

Fatma Deniz received 45 votes in favor, 5 against and 1 abstention. She is head of the Chair of Language and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems at Faculty IV, TU Berlin.

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Appointment to DFG Review Boards

Prof. Dr. Sibylle Dieckerhoff, head of Faculty IV chair Power Electronics, has been elected as one of seven scientists from TU Berlin to a review board of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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Sonja Schimmler took on a visiting professorship at Faculty IV

she will set up and lead the "Research Data Infrastructure" department and work as a research group lead in the Digital Public Services business unit at Fraunhofer FOKUS.

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Good, Ethical, Open and Understandable Research

Manfred Hauswirth discusses interdisciplinary research and the goals of the steering committee “Objective 3: Advancing Research Quality and Value”

Professor Hauswirth, you are head of the Open Distributed Systems group at TU Berlin as well as managing director of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS. As a researcher and scientist, you are TU Berlin’s expert representative on the Berlin University Alliance’s steering committee “Objective 3.” What does the committee do and what is your role?

The…

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4Campus Ideas Competition for Students! Submit your video pitch by 31.05.2023!

You don't know if you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur? But you want to try it and work in a team with friends and fellow students? Here's your chance: send your pitch video!

Apply from May 17 - 31 with a pitch video of 2-3 minutes, in which you present your startup idea for a new product, business model or service as creatively as possible. Your pitch video will be uploaded to the YouTube channel of Science & Startups (Berlin University Association) after a pre-selection process and then a vote will be held for two…

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"People of ACM": Honor for Volker Markl

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) honors Prof. Dr. Volker Markl, head of Database Systems and Information Management group of Faculty IV

Once a month, the category "People of ACM" highlights the unique scientific accomplishments and compelling personal attributes of ACM members who are making a difference in advancing computing as a science. These bulletins feature ACM members whose personal and professional stories are a source of inspiration for the larger computing community.…

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A Poetic Dialogue of Art and Science

Italian media artist Marco Barotti is BIFOLD artist in residence

Together with TU Berlin’s Science Gallery Initiative, the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) at Technische Universität Berlin announced a call in spring 2022 for an artist in residence program titled “Art of Entanglement.” A jury led by Austrian curator Dr. Claudia Schnugg has now chosen Italian media artist Marco…

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2.8 million euros in funding for cloud, blockchain and privacy research at our research group Information Systems Engineering

Cloud, blockchain and privacy research at the research group Information Systems Engineering, headed by Prof. Dr. Stefan Tai, will be funded with a further 2.8 million euros over the next three years.

Cloud, blockchain and privacy research at the research group Information Systems Engineering (ISE, Faculty IV), headed by Prof. Dr. Stefan Tai, will be funded with a further 2.8 million euros over the next three years in four new national and European research projects. Innovative methods and tools are being researched and developed with which…

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