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Ministry Promotes Development of Grid Technology with High-Tech Strategy

Whether in science, business, politics or even private life: The need for computing power keeps growing and growing. It has long since ceased to depend only on the strength of individual computers; efficient networking of computing resources is becoming increasingly important. The key to this networking is so-called grid technology.

12.09.2007

German Internet Use Reaches 40.8 Million

The 2007 ARD/ZDF Online Study finds 62.7 percent of Germans aged 14 or over online, with growth led by women and people over 60.

07.09.2007

Largest Lexicon of the 18th Century on the Internet

Internet users can now browse the largest reference work of the 18th century. Johann Heinrich Zedler’s «Universal-Lexicon» has been prepared for the web.

30.08.2007

Fraunhofer IGD Marks 20 Years of Graphics

Fraunhofer IGD marks 20 years of research that helped establish computer graphics as a core technology and computing discipline.

28.08.2007

Survey: Buyers Not Yet “HD-ready”

According to a study, almost half of Germans do not yet know HDTV / DVB-T and VoIP are familiar to most, Web 2.0 is known only to a minority

27.08.2007

Computer Games Market Grows to Two Billion Euros for the First Time

Sales have already risen to a combined 873 million euros in the 1st half-year. An increase of 21 percent is expected for the full year.

09.08.2007

Board of Trustees established at MFM

Managing directors of the most important Munich media companies and experts from politics and the media industry joined together last Friday to form the Board of Trustees of the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences for Media (MFM).

08.08.2007

Microsoft Presents Graphics Research at SIGGRAPH

Microsoft Research and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology present new graphics research.

08.08.2007

What makes children happy? Two-day ZDF specialist congress

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of “Tabaluga tivi”, ZDF is holding an international and interdisciplinary specialist congress titled “Wunschlos glücklich?” at the ZDF broadcasting center in Mainz on November 15 and 16, 2007.

03.08.2007

Google’s Web History research software released

The search engine operator offers the software in German and in 25 other languages.

02.08.2007

During research for NDR documentary: Stammheim tapes discovered

For more than thirty years they were considered destroyed: the audio tape recordings of the Stammheim trial against RAF founders Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe.

31.07.2007

Microsoft establishes research center for search and advertising technologies

New Internet Services Research Center (ISRC) is affiliated with Microsoft Research

27.07.2007

TV consumption devours more time than online role-playing games

The average television consumer spends considerably more time in front of the television than the online gamer in front of the computer monitor. This is a finding of the “Daedalus” research project, to which the Xchar game community (www.xchar.de) draws attention on a current occasion.

27.07.2007

“Verified in Germany” Becomes a Quality Mark for German Software

Software errors cause economic damage of well over 100 billion euros annually in Europe. Because requirements are often misjudged during software development and the existing technology for troubleshooting is very laborious, manufacturers today spend 70-80 percent of their work on removing software errors.

09.07.2007

Saarland University Seeks Students for “Visual Computing” Master’s Program

Interdisciplinary English-language degree program is intended to convey broad specialist knowledge with practical relevance

24.04.2007

Autodesk: Job Cuts at Media & Entertainment

Layoffs in research & development and support in the Systems division

12.12.2006

Nvidia Awards Research Fellowships

"Fellowship Program" for research in graphics and digital media

30.11.2006

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Animation Institute Receives Innovation Award

Award worth 25,000 euros for the “Artificial Performers” research project

16.11.2006

Eurographics 2006: News From CG Research

Main conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics takes place in Vienna from September 4 to 8

24.08.2006

SIGGRAPH Paper: Color Harmonization

This technology automatically adjusts disharmonious color combinations in an image

31.07.2006

SIGGRAPH Paper: Natural Video Matting using Camera Arrays

Using multiple cameras makes it possible to automatically isolate objects in front of a moving background

31.07.2006

SIGGRAPH Paper: Schematic Storyboarding

Interesting alternative to video stills that is based on drawn storyboards

31.07.2006

SIGGRAPH Paper: SmoothSketch

Automatically generating 3D objects from outlines was the subject of this paper

31.07.2006

SIGGRAPH Paper: Image based Material Editing

Paper shows how the material properties of an object can be changed completely and automatically

31.07.2006

SIGGRAPH: Emerging Technologies

SIGGRAPH presents technologies ranging from optical distortion to a modular physical control surface.

31.07.2006

SIGGRAPH: Fast Forward Previews Papers

Presenters had 60 seconds each to introduce their work during SIGGRAPH’s rapid paper preview.

31.07.2006

New Visual Computing master’s degree launches in Saarbrücken

Interdisciplinary master's degree program begins in the winter semester 2006/2007, application deadline ends on September 15, 2006

27.07.2006

NAB: Fraunhofer Supports Digital Cinema Tests

Fraunhofer IIS develops certification tests for digital-cinema projectors, servers and other hardware.

28.04.2006

Games Academy and Fraunhofer IGD Research Game Technologies

Partners want to collaborate on research and teaching in the field of interactive entertainment media

31.03.2006

OpenLab Night at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Presentation of current research projects in the Media Systems degree programme

20.01.2005

3IA 2004

The 6th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence has taken place every two years since 1994. The purpose of this Conference is to present the actual state of researches of Computer Graphics researchers who use Artificial Intelligence techniques. TOPICS: Artificial intelligence techniques in scene modelling, Declarative techniques, Artificial intelligence techniques and display, Artificial intelligence techniques in construction of geometric figures, Animation and artificial intelligence, Design of intelligent graphic interfaces, Intelligent methods for exploring virtual worlds and Application of AI techniques in CAD.

12.05.2004

Fraunhofer Demonstrates a Cinema Sound-Field System

Fraunhofer researchers equipped an Ilmenau cinema with 192 loudspeakers to demonstrate sound-field synthesis across the entire auditorium.

12.02.2003

Sedo Study Finds Weak Uptake for New Top-Level Domains

A 2003 Sedo study found low active use and little resale demand for most newly introduced domains, with .info the notable exception.

23.01.2003