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Franconians together with Upper Bavarians, political scientists working with mathematicians, completely different socialization and professional cultures. Is that possible? Can it be fruitful? Students started the experiment. [read more]

The hackathon organized by the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich is taking place for the 10th time this year. Since then, hackaTUM has developed into one of the largest hackathons in Europe. The event will take place from November 21 to 23, 2025. [read more]

For his committed support of start-ups, Prof. Klaus Diepold, Head of the Chair of Data Processing, has been honored as Unipreneur. TUM was the only university with four representatives at the presentation of the awards, which recognizes outstanding entrepreneurship activities at universities. [read more]

Kristen Kozielski researches how neuroelectrodes can be utilized in the treatment of illnesses such as Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries. For this project, she will receive an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2023. [read more]

For the ninth time in a row, the "QS World University Ranking" lists TUM as the best German university. Within the EU, it is ranked second, and in the overall ranking, it has moved up 12 places to position 37. [read more]

Angela Dai is an Assistant Professor within the Professorship for Machine Learning of 3D Scene Geometry and leads the 3D AI group. For her project entitled "Spatial 3D Semantic Understanding for Perception in the Wild" the scientist has now been awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2022 by the European… [read more]

Prof. Viktor Leis from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) receives the Early Career Research Contribution Award of the Very Large Data Base Endowment Inc. (VLDB). This is only the second time that the prize has gone to Europe, and the second time to the TUM. [read more]

The "Legal AI Use Case Radar 2024" by an research team at the TUM School of Computation, Information and Techology (CIT) presents the latest use cases for AI in the German legal system. It demonstrates how processes can be automated to increase efficiency. [read more]

The Robotics Institute Germany (RIG) is to become the central contact point for robotics in Germany. At the "AI-based Robotics 2024" conference, Prof. Angela Schoellig from the Technical University of Munich and Prof. Tamim Asfour from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology presented the concept. [read more]

Temporal and locational variations in power generation result in fluctuations in the power supply and power prices. Consequently, the EU Commission is assessing a possible split of the German uniform price zone into smaller price zones. According to researchers, this would have little effects. [read more]

Like JPEG for images or MP3 for audio files: After eight years of standardization work under the consortium leadership of the Technical University of Munich, a standard for the compression and transmission of the sense of touch has been published for the first time under the name "Haptic Codecs for the Tactile Internet" (HCTI). [read more]