NAVIG is a multidisciplinary and innovative project aiming at augmenting the autonomy of visually impaired people in their basic daily actions the most problematic: navigation and object localization. This video presents the different components of the systems (artificial vision, 3D sounds rendered by binaural synthesis, pedestrian GIS, vocal interface,...) and the prototype being developed.
Bundeswirtschaftsminister Gabriel macht sich für eine Umsetzung des Freihandelsabkommens TTIP stark. In einem Zeitungsinterview erklärt er, wie die deutsche Wirtschaft vom Abkommen zwischen Europa und den USA profitiert. Zugleich zeigt er Verständnis für die Sorgen der Kritiker des TTIP.
Das Europaparlament hat Pläne zur Google-Zerschlagung auf den Weg gebracht. Der Beschluss ist billiger Aktionismus und zeigt einmal mehr, dass die EU in digitalen Fragen völlig hilflos ist
m:lab East Africa is the region’s new incubation facility for entrepreneurs and innovators with a focus on mobile technology. The lab aims to facilitate demand-driven innovation by local and regional entrepreneurs, ensuring that breakthrough low-cost, high-value mobile solutions can be developed and scaled-up into sustainable entreprises that address social and economic needs. The facility’s services include business incubation, training, consumer research and application testing. The facility will also assist developers and entrepreneurs to access capital for scale up of their innovations as well as to access markets and business partnerships. The lab’s activities are aimed at helping to make the East Africa region a global hub for mobile innovation.
BMBF stellt gemeinsam mit BDI, ver.di und Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft das Programm für Produktion, Dienstleistung und Arbeit von morgen vor [Pressemitteilung 085/2014]
Our language, much like everything these days, has been hacked. Fuzzy, contentious, and complex ideas have been stripped of their subversive connotations and replaced by cleaner, shinier, and emptier alternatives; long-running debates about politics, rights, and freedoms have been recast in the seemingly natural language of economics, innovation, and efficiency.
The Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) is an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. The premise: while "modern" management is one of humankind's most important inventions, it is now a mature technology that must be reinvented for a new age. It's time to hack management.
Wer in den USA Software-Anwendungen austüftelt, muss stets mit Klagen wegen Patentverletzungen rechnen. Schuld daran ist ein ausuferndes Patentwesen. Statt dass es Innovationen fördert, hemmt es diese zunehmend.
C. Monteiro, F. da Silva, and L. Capretz. Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, New York, NY, ACM, (September 2016)https://doi.org/10.1145/2961111.2962589.