Since emotional competence is an important factor in human communication, it will certainly also improve communication between humans and robots or other machines. In our everyday life many services formerly provided by humans are now fulfilled by machines.
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The project Hydra, an integrated research project funded by the EU and part of the 6th Framework Programme, published its fifth newsletter. The newsletter gives new information about achievements and project results, which have been presented on numerous and well attended scientific conferences and commercial oriented events. Direct link to the newsletter.
THESEUS presents the latest working examples from the research programme at this year's CeBIT. The semantic knowledge platform "ALEXANDRIA - Collaborative Knowledge Engine" developed in the context of Germany's largest IT research programme THESEUS is demonstrated at the booth of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) in hall 9 (A44).Already in the ancient world, a very precise system for cataloguing the most famous library of…
The President of the University of Paderborn, Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Risch, presents the C-LAB Annual Report to Dr. Reinhold Achatz, Head of Corporate Technology Research and Development and of Corporate Technology Development Center, while signing the Framework Agreement ("Ambassador Program") between the University of Paderborn and Siemens AG.
Cooperations with universities are an integral part of the strategic research of Siemens AG. Besides the…
Auf der diesjährigen IEEE Photonics Winter Topicals Konferenz in Palma de Mallorca, Spanien demonstrierte Siemens AG, SIS C-LAB in Zusammenarbeit mit der vario-optics ag und Tyco Electronics Ltd. das Konzept einer steckbaren optischen Verbindungstechnik für optische Board-to-Board-Verbindungen.
Gezeigt wurde eine durchgängig optische 12-Kanal-Übertragungsstrecke auf Basis von zwölf parallelen in die Leiterplatte integrierten Polymerwellenleitern…
The success of many companies is based on long-term research and development (R + D), which is integrated in an innovation strategy. There exist different forms of organization to perform innovation projects.For further information click here.
As every year the new employees of C-LAB have organized a Christmas party. And this year's organisation team has had a gorgeous idea! Two teams of employees competed in wrapping Christmas gifts as nice as possible for the Archiepiscopal Children's Home in Paderborn. Afterwards the gifts were presented by the team leaders and one team came off ahead. But the actual winner was the Archiepiscopal Children's Home. Short before Christmas the gifts…
Today's development of modern information systems is under considerable strain of coping with rapidly increasing complexity at competitive prices. Efficient and powerful development processes are essential for success. Processes have to be highly specialized in their respective domain.For further information click here.
Reactive and proactive systems rely on efficient handling of internal data and the timely notification of changes in components. This short report explains the concepts for the processing of such notifications in software systems and components and presents a concept of managing higher level state information ... For further information look here.
Die "Barrierefreie Gestaltung von Produkten und Dienstleistungen" gewinnt immer mehr an Bedeutung.Einerseits erhöht sich die Nachfrage z.B. durch die demografische Entwicklung, andererseits wird "Barrierefreiheit" ein wichtiges Vergabekriterium in Ausschreibungen der öffentlichen Hand.Am 10. Februar 2010 findet in Berlin zu diesem Thema ein Forum als gemeinsame Informationsveranstaltung der Verbände BITKOM, ZWEI, BDI, und DKE statt, das sich…
Determing the position of RFID tags based on signals captured at RFID readers can be done by several methods. Assuming mobile tags moving in an area where stationary readers are located.For further information click here.
A research team of the University of Paderborn and C-LAB wins at the national competition "NanoMikro+Werkstoffe.NRW". For the next three years the Ministry of Innovations will spend 2.6 million Euros of research funding to support R&D on new technologies for high-bandwidth optical communications in computers. In the framework of the interdisciplinary project "Optical Link" a new generation of integrated electro-optical circuits for intra-system…
Delegation der China Telecom Shanghai und der Jiao Tong Universität besucht das C-LAB.Am 25. Juni informierte sich eine Delegation der China Telecom Shanghai und der Jiao Tong Universität über aktuelle Forschungsarbeiten und Kooperationen des C-LAB.Insbesondere traf die langjährige erfolgreiche Kooperation der Siemens AG mit der Universität im Rahmen des C-LAB und die jüngste Kooperation mit Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH (früher Fujitsu…
"Der Kreis Soest sucht Tester für Nutzerstudie" - diesem Aufruf folgten 18 blinde und sehbehinderte Menschen, Menschen im Rollstuhl und Menschen über 60. Sie nahmen jetzt an einem Workshop im Rahmen des EU-Projektes HaptiMap im Soester Kreishaus teil, den Jörn Peters, Vermessungsingenieur im Katasteramt, leitete. Höhepunkt der Veranstaltung waren Arbeitsgruppen, in denen Überlegungen zum Design der wünschenswerten technischen Hilfsmittel…
