FAUdigital

In the CHE ranking for studies during the corona pandemic, FAU scores very well The corona pandemic has presented university teaching with completely new challenges. Within a very short period of time, lecturers had to convert lectures into a digital format, students had to be informed about new pr...

Digitization of six FAU collections. What does the digital age mean for scientific collections? FAU and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum addressed this question in their joint research and digitization project "Objekte im Netz". Antique coins, medieval musical instruments, prepared body parts, zo...

Digital finale of the 38th Federal Computer Science Competition They have solved complex problems, convinced in discussions with computer science experts and proved themselves as team players - now the best young computer scientists in Germany have been selected. The winners of the 38th German Nat...

Erlangen Cybercrime Day on Wednesday, September 30, from 10 am Whether through watches, electricity meters, e-readers, messenger services or the classic USB stick: we leave behind many data traces in our everyday lives that could play an important role in the event of a crime. But which ones are im...

Museum visit in the times of Covid 19 - nothing is impossible! Students of the UFG-FAU created 3D models of various objects from our collection in a course. Now they are presented, together with explanatory texts, maps and videos in the first virtual, interactive room of the Prehistoric Collectio...

Study examines training and employment in office jobs Office professions always have their finger on the pulse of technology: computer hardware and software are often used here before other areas of the working world. At the same time, they involve a high proportion of so-called routine tasks -...

For archaeologists, it is often desirable to present statues in their original material and coloration. With projection mapping, real-world surfaces are augmented by digital content to create compelling alterations of the scene’s visual appearance without actually altering or even damaging the objec...

In which areas can artificial intelligence (AI) be used? What is the state of research? Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier, holder of the Chair of Computer Science 15 (Machine Intelligence), talks about this in an article published by heise online on August 7. AI has experienced an upswing in recent years, par...

The first digital semester at FAU is drawing to a close - time to take a short breath and review things before the next "exceptional semester" with hybrid format comes along. Be there when the first ILI-EDU Coffee-Talk on 23.07. from 16:00-17:00 reflects on the challenges of the so-called "Emerge...

FAU provides technological foundations for multimedia forensics When it comes to solving crimes, even proven forensic experts reach their limits - for example, when the quality of video material from surveillance cameras near the crime scene is poor. A research project is intended to remedy this si...