Artificial Intelligence

DFG to Fund Nine Trilateral Artificial Intelligence Projects

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is funding nine artificial intelligence projects in cooperation with the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST, Japan). The nine projects selected to receive funding were launched at the 2nd trilateral AI Symposium.

Event report

Human-centric Artificial Intelligence: 2nd French-German-Japanese Symposium

From November 16 to 20, 2020, the French Embassy to Japan and the German Centre for Research and Innovation Tokyo (DWIH Tokyo) together with the AI Japan R&D Network conducted the 2nd French-German-Japanese Symposium on “Human-centric Artificial Intelligence”.

Databases to find cooperation partners in Artificial Intelligence (AI) online

Map on AI research in Germany

The Plattform Lernende Systeme has published a detailed map of Aritificial Intelligence (AI) research institutions in Germany. It provides a powerful database to look for potential cooperation partners in Germany and allows filtering by topic and type of institution.

DWIH Focus Topic for 2019: Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently being discussed more intensively worldwide than almost any other topic. This is why the German Centres for Research and Innovation are addressing AI in their activities in 2019 and exploring central aspects of AI in their host countries.

Trilateral commitment to ensure quality of AI systems for patiens and healthcare professionals

Interview with Prof. Dr. Klaus Juffernbruch, Professor for Health & Social Management at FOM University, Germany and acts as President of the Expert Group “Intelligent Networks in Healthcare” at the German National Digital Summit. He supported two DWIH Tokyo events by chairing sessions on AI and Healthcare during a Japanese-German-French AI symposium in Nov 2018 and a follow-up forum in Dec 2019.

Japanese-German-French Forum on AI and Healthcare

In the trilateral forum, researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, regulators and policy makers had been discussing guidelines to quality assurance for AI applications in healthcare and exchanging on national approaches to an integrated database of medical data.

Japanese-German-French Conference on "AI for SDGs"

The Japanese-German-French conference on 24 October 2019 brought together two topics critically impacting the future of our societies: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Climate Change. As global temperatures continue to rise, and as extreme weather conditions become more frequent, many express their hope that science will find a way to save humanity from climate change and its consequences. Can AI be a game changer for the environment?

AI Research Takes Root in Germany

Germany is at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe, with leaders from various industries working alongside top research universities in southwest Germany’s Cyber Valley to develop increasingly sophisticated machines with wide capabilities.

1st Japanese-German-French DWIH Symposium on Artificial Intelligence

On November 21–22, the German Centre for Research and Innovation Tokyo (DWIH Tokyo) conducted the ‘Artificial Intelligence–International Research and Applications: 1st Japanese-German-French Symposium’. With a remarkable lineup of 63 distinguished speakers and over 300 participants from all three countries the symposium provided a forum for vibrant discussions on one of the most important topics of our time.

AI technology for quantifying physical load and providing effective feedbacks using sensor suit devices

Improving efficiency, ensuring safety, and managing workers’ health through standardization of work skills in production/maintenance sites Hitachi, Ltd. and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI) jointly developed an AI based technology for quantifying physical load on a worker wearing a sensor suit*1 and for providing effective feedbacks on the movement of each body part.