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15. June 2020

Pro2Future: New Management

On 1 June 2020, Mr Gerd Hribernig took up his post as new CEO of Pro2Future GmbH. From September 2020 he will take over sole leadership of the company. In the intervening period he will head the firm with the two chief executives. Prof. Alois Ferscha will continue lead the centre’s research expertise as chief scientific officer. Mr Hribernig was selected by the panel of assessors following an invitation to apply. The appointment is the result of a joint decision taken by the owners, AVL List GmbH, FRONIUS INT. GmbH, JKU Linz, Graz University of Technology and Upper Austrian Research GmbH.

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26. May 2020

Virtual Trade Fair: Limitations of AI

As part of the virtual conference “AI Practice in Businesses” organized by Computerwelt publishing house from 26 – 28 May 2020, Dr Christoph Hofer, software engineer at RISC Software GmbH, will hold a talk on “Limitations of AI”.The talk will present a wide range of limitations of machine learning as a subdivision of artificial intelligence. Examples of this are the interpretability of machine learning systems or deliberate attacks against the machine learning system.

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18. May 2020

SCCH: New Chief Scientific Officer Raises International Profile

Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH) has a new Chief Scientific Officer: Dr. Robert Wille is a computer scientist from Bremen who was recruited to the JKU in 2015 as one of the university’s youngest professors. Since 2019 he has led the LIT Secure and Correct Systems Lab and is also associated with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) as a senior researcher. “I intend to use my position at the JKU and my international network to increase both the collaborative work of SCCH in Upper Austria and its international standing.”, says Prof. Wille.

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11. May 2020

WOOD: extracts from the tree of heaven as a biological wood preservative

The tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima) is a deciduous tree in the family Simaroubaceae. It is characterized by a high tolerance of salt, aridity, herbicides and airborne pollutants. However, it also has considerable drawbacks: It is an invasive plant that is spreading globally and forcing out other species of tree. In its branches, leaves and especially bark the tree of heaven contains bitter substances, called quassinoids, that protect it from predatory herbivores and pathogens, but also prevent other species of tree from growing beside it. These substances could be of interest as a natural wood preservative.

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30. April 2020

SCCH: Pattern Detection – How AI Increases Safety

Computers have one advantage over humans: they can work on a task for hours without a break and with the same level of precision. Researchers at Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH) exploited this fact to improve protection of buildings in security research (KIRAS). As scientific partners on the SKIN project (protection of the shell of critical infrastructures) they succeeded in reducing the error-proneness of video surveillance of public buildings by approximately 65% per camera and day on behalf of the Federal Ministries of Internal Affairs (BMI) and Defence (BMLV).

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08. April 2020

RISC Software: “SafeSign” FFG-Funded Collaborative Project Starts

Driver assistance systems are already standard equipment in modern cars. These intelligent systems will play an even greater role in future. However, reading road signs presents the AI systems used with a challenge. RISC Software GmbH, the Johannes Kepler University Linz and highway operator ASFINAG are collaborating on a project to make these systems safer – and above all to increase the level of trust in these new technologies.

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25. March 2020

COMET: Deadline Extended of 8th Call for Entries of COMET Projects

Due to the current corona crisis the deadline for submitting COMET projects under the 8th call of 21 April 2020 has been extended to 23 June 2020, 12 p.m. To adhere to the original plan to hold the judges’ conference on 10/11 November 2020 and to aid the recruitment of expert assessors, consortiums are asked to send in a short description of their project using eCall by 21 April 2020.

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17. March 2020

RISC Software: Workshop on “Applied Data Analysis and Machine Learning in an Industrial Context”

In this interactive seminar you will learn about processes and selected methods for successfully conducting data science projects in your company. Our data scientists have many years’ experience and will explain theoretical principles and present examples and solutions from the field.

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06. March 2020

Profactor: Flexibility and safety in the smart factory

Collaborative robotics is regarded as the future of the production industry. The success of the digital factory rests on the best possible symbiosis between humans and machines and their dynamic collaboration. The flexibility and safety of such assistance systems play a particularly important role in this. In future it should become possible to deploy modular assistance systems flexibly and so give specialists the best possible support with a variety of different production steps.

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06. March 2020

Industry 4.0 - Cooperation Agreement between RWTH Aachen and UAR

The chamber district of Aachen has an international reputation as a city with outstanding technological expertise and stands for pioneering research and innovation in the production engineering sector. It was against this background that a delegation from Upper Austria headed by economy and research minister Markus Achleitner undertook a fact-finding trip to Aachen from 3 to 4 March 2020. The trip included discussions with representatives and top scientists from Aachen Universities.

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