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Structure, function and evolution of the root microbiome
SERIES features lectures and discussions with leading scientists referring to our research fields. We are looking forward to welcoming you at our next seminar: <b>Structure, function and evolution of the [...] SERIES features lectures and discussions with leading scientists referring to our research fields. We are looking forward to welcoming you at our next seminar: <b>Structure, function and evolution of the
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And the winner is…
system took into consideration also the public who was allowed to do was by casting their option in a voting box. This award was intended to recognize the most promising project of the AAL Joint Programme [...] An existing outdoor walker is extended with an efficient, powerful e-drive, to be combined with ICT technology in order to offer seamless outdoor and indoor navigation and activity-oriented assistive [...] equip an offroad-walker with a tablet and an e-drive system enabling people with mobility limitations to walk and hike in the nature. The contest was held on 26 September during a plenary session of the AAL
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Team Austria wins Solar Decathlon 2013 with LISI!
hosted by the US Department of Energy to promote the application of solar technologies in buildings. In January 2012, the DOE selected twenty university teams to compete in the Solar Decathlon 2013, which [...] homes designed and built by student teams were open to the public and evaluated by a jury. Team Austria was one of only two European teams invited to SD 2013 (the other being from the Czech Republic). The [...] of the Supervisory Board Hannes Androsch, Managing Director Wolfgang Knoll, Head of Energy Department Brigitte Bach and Head of Corporate Communication Michael Hlava amongst them - thanks for keeping finger´s
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Cybersecurity Lecture Series
Information security threats to organisations have changed completely over the last decade, due to the complexity and dynamic nature of infrastructures and attacks. Successful attacks cost society billions [...] economy. Examples include StuxNet, using infected USB sticks to sabotage nuclear plants, and the DigiNotar attack, using fake digital certificates to spy on website traffic. New attacks cleverly exploit multiple [...] vulnerabilities, involving physical security and human behaviour.Defenders need to make rapid decisions regarding which attacks to block, as both infrastructure and attacker knowledge change rapidly. Current
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1st Visual Object Tracking Challenge (VOT2013)
limited due to a lack of standardised evaluation protocols and due to a lack of online reference repositories showing results on community accepted reference videos. VOT2013 invites researchers to participate [...] workshop, organized by AIT, is to provide an evaluation kit for fair comparison of existing and new trackers. This kit includes labelled videos as well as evaluation software, to automate the execution of the
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Young European Associated Researchers (YEAR)
this last one is still to be decided, so don’t hesitate to send your inputs until 15 November to Caroline Lemeire, YEAR Chair at caroline.lemeire@vito.be.Looking further ahead to next year: In May 2014 [...] the next YEAR Workshop "from project idea to successful project proposal" will take place in Vienna. Once again, a YEAR Award will be given to the most promising participant. In September, in [...] successful YEAR workshop in Trondheim and a well-deserved Summer holiday, the YEAR Board is back on track to prepare the coming events. In November, there will be a seminar with the European Commission on Resource
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Cybersecurity Lecture Series
combination of ICT and industrial control systems – that require protection from attacks, in order to ensure their effective and efficient operation. Ports are threatened by a plethora of both physical [...] that pave the way for further research activities in this societally important area, which may lead to a trustworthy, sustainable digital maritime market. Date: 12th December, 4.30 pmVenue: Technische [...] t Wien, HS 8 Heinz Parkus Hörsaal, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna Please register by sending an E-mail to cybersecurity-lectures@ait.ac.at or use the registration form here.For further information please download
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From attack trees to attack navigators
in information risk at the Delft University of Techology (TU Delft), in the Netherlands. In addition to this position, he is the project manager of the EU-funded TRESPASS project at University of Twente [...] challenges of carrying out cybersecurity risk assessment for today’s complex systems, which are subjected to increasingly sophisticated attacker behaviour. In the lecture, the attack navigator concept was introduced [...] brochure. The slides from Prof Pieters’ presentation are available on request; please send an email to cybersecurity-lectures(at)ait.ac.at for a copy.The Cybersecurity Lecture Series is a joint initiative
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IECON 2013: AIT organises the world’s largest conference on industrial electronics
An Industry Forum gave representatives from industry and research the opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences and to forge networks across scientific disciplines and industrial sectors. “Looking back [...] Austria Center Vienna for the 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society from 11 to 14 November. IECON 2013, the world’s largest conference on industrial electronics was organised by [...] Technology. “We are proud that we have succeeded in bringing this prestigious large-scale conference to Austria for the first time”, said Peter Palensky, AIT Principal Scientist and conference organiser
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Giving seniors access to smart technologies
Commissioner for Digital Agenda2. Karina Marcus, Director at AAL3. Peter WINTLEV- JENSEN, Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission, DG CNECT4. MEP Lambert Van Nistelorooij The talks focussed
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Cybersecurity Lecture Series 2014
Universität Wien, INFH Informatikhörsaal, Treitlstr. 3, 1040 Vienna Please register by sending an eMail to cybersecurity-lectures(at)ait.ac.at or use the registration form here.For further information please
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»EMOBILITY - WHO SOLVES THE BATTERY PROBLEM?«
, Mobility Department: Theme Coordinator Battery Research Dr. Nikolaus HochgattererHead of Department, MAGNA STEYR Battery Systems GmbH & Co OG:Advanced Development & Cell Techn [...] 21:00Panel Discussionab ca. 21:00Networking incl. snack (changes reserved)LanguageEnglish Follow link to invitation
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Open Security for public institutions
project develops security solutions to prevent loss and (un)intentional misuse of sensitive, citizen-related data held by public bodies. The aim of our research is to achieve a higher level of data security
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E-ARK gets £6M to save digital data
The European Commission has awarded £6M to archiving and digital preservation specialists to create E-ARK, a revolutionary method of archiving data that is set to become the gold standard across Europe [...] business opportunities for the access to and re-use of archival data by supporting Open Access to archival records and data mining of these records in order to find valuable trends and correlations [...] including ‘big data,’ are future-proofed. (Big data is data sets of such a size that it is difficult to manage with traditional software and databases.)Digital preservation specialists at the University
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Software innovation: boosting high-tech employment and industry
Components), funded by the EU. About SafeCerSafeCer is targeting increased efficiency and reduced time-to-market by composable safety certification of safety-relevant embedded systems. The industrial domains [...] the capital of Sweden – Stockholm – the sixth edition of the annual Co-summit took place from 4th to 5th December in the Scandic Infra Business Center. More than 700 participants from industry, academia
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AIT Keynote at GameDays 2014
and thus help to improve the effectiveness of the intervention. TV-based games are often oriented along traditional video games. External sensors like video cameras can be incorporated to provide direct [...] also be utilized to reassess the status of the user and monitor his/her training progress. Mobile devices and the large range of available body worn sensors offer the opportunity to design games around [...] daily and outdoor activities. By adding a social level to the games, competition and group efforts can be initiated, giving further motivation to reach a certain goal. Further information: http:
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1st Short-term Visual Object Tracking Challenge in Sydney successfully accomplished
tracking methods. To address this issue, AIT co-organized the Visual Object Tracking (VOT) workshop in conjunction with ICCV2013. Researchers from academia as well as industry were invited to participate in [...] recent surge in the number of publications on tracking-related problems have made it almost impossible to follow the developments in the field. One of the reasons is that there is a lack of commonly accepted
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AIT ICT Security Panel in Washington DC
knowledge of cyber-security, resilience and future energy systems. They reflected on existing efforts to secure smart grids and discussed about areas where they sense future research and standardization of [...] secure and, most importantly, safe manner.The panel was a great success and resulted in an invitation to organize another panel at next year's conference.The ISGT conferenceThe Innovative Smart Grid Technologies [...] (ISGT) Conference, sponsored by the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), is a forum for participants to discuss state-of-the-art innovations in smart grid technologies and features plenary sessions, mul
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AIT technologies at Singapore Airshow
From 11th to 16th of February 2014 latest airborne systems, equipment and technologies from more than 1,000 companies from 47 countries were presented in the Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore. The [...] the Austrian Economic Chamber. The AIT 3D vision expert Christoph Sulzbachner and Helmut Leopold, Head of AIT Safety & Security Department presented among the other Austrian companies Schiebel, Airborne
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4th ISGAN International smart grid action network Workshop
„Smart Grids Transitions“ organisiert zwei Sessions beim 4. ISGAN Workshop in Shanghai. 31st March to 1st April 2014.Shanghai, Chinahttp://www.iea-isgan.org/