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Modern Magnetic Systems News 01-03-2019 3D-Struktur von Skyrmionen wird erstmals sichtbar Ein internationales Team von Wissenschaftlern konnte mit Hilfe eines hochauflösenden Röntgenmikroskops die vielbeachteten magnetischen Strukturen erstmals sichtbar machen. Gisela Schütz Joachim Gräfe
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 15-02-2019 Udit Choudhury has his PhD defence in Groningen Congratulations to Udit Choudhury for defending his thesis on the "Dynamics of self-propelled colloids and their application as active matter", and best of luck as he is leaving the group to start a Postdoc at AMOLF in the Netherlands. Udit Choudhury Mariana Alarcon-Correa Vincent Mauricio Kadiri Peer Fischer
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Autonomous Learning News 11-02-2019 Winners of the final RL Course Competition Congratulations to Team SSP for winning the final Reinforcement Learning course competition with their SAC (Soft Actor Critic) agent. Sebastian Blaes Jia-Jie Zhu Georg Martius
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 10-02-2019 Hannah-Noa Barad receives Minerva Fellowship The Postdoctoral Researcher in the Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems lab receives the Fellowship for two years. Hannah-Noa Barad Peer Fischer
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Modern Magnetic Systems News 08-02-2019 Dr. Michael Hirscher Chair der GRC Hydrogen-Metal Systems Konferenz Der Leiter der Forschungsgruppe "Wasserstoffspeicherung" am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme in Stuttgart führt zusammen mit Ned T. Stetson eine der wichtigsten Konferenzen im Fachbereich Material-Wasserstoff-Wechselwirkung an. Kernthema der Konferenz werden neue Wasserstoffspeichermaterialien vom mikroskopischen Verständnis bis zur Anwendung sein. Michael Hirscher
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Rationality Enhancement News 02-02-2019 Lab's first CogSci submissions We have submitted a great set of papers to this year's 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) in Montreal. A historic moment for the lab! We will continue this proud tradition in the years to come. Falk Lieder Maria Wirzberger Florian Mohnert Yash Raj Jain Lin Xu
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 01-02-2019 Dr. Dhruv Singh becomes Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Congrats and good luck to Dr. Dhruv Singh Dhruv Pratap Singh
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Rationality Enhancement News 01-02-2019 Gabriela Iwama joined our lab Gabriela Iwama has joined our lab for an internship on the development of psychometric measures of cognitive growth. She is currently working towards her bachelor degree in Psychology at the University of Brasília. Welcome Gabriela! Gabriela Iwama
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Rationality Enhancement News 28-01-2019 Mateo Tosic joined our lab Mateo Tosic has joined our lab as student assistant focusing on software and web development. He is a bachelor student of Computational Linguistics at the University of Tübingen. Welcome Mateo! Mateo Tosic
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Empirical Inference News 28-01-2019 Schlüsseltechnologie der digitalen Revolution Wissenschaftspreis der Hector Stiftung geht an Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf erhält in diesem Jahr den mit 150.000 Euro dotierten Wissenschaftspreis der Hector Stiftung. Die Jury würdigt damit seine herausragenden Leistungen in der Grundlagenforschung zum maschinellen Lernen und der Künstlichen Intelligenz, die als Schlüsseltechnologien der digitalen Revolution gelten. Bernhard Schölkopf
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Empirical Inference News 23-01-2019 Helping to memorize information more efficiently using AI Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems develop algorithms which optimize the well-known spaced repetition method used for memorizing educational material. By using optimal spacing time, the learning process becomes as efficient as possible. Their findings were published in the prestigious journal PNAS on Tuesday. Behzad Tabibian Bernhard Schölkopf Manuel Gomez Rodriguez
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 21-01-2019 Hannah-Noa Barad receives a Minerva PostDoctoral Fellowship.
Rationality Enhancement News 19-01-2019 Article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences accepted Behavioral and Brain Sciences has accepted our target article “Resource-rational analysis: understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources”. According to the editor we have set a new record with our 53 page long response to the reviewers! Falk Lieder
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Rationality Enhancement News 14-01-2019 Article in Current Opinions in Behavioral Sciences accepted Good news! Our paper “Doing more with less: Meta-reasoning and meta-learning in humans and machines” has been accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. Falk Lieder
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Empirical Inference Award 02-01-2019 Jan Peters has been elected IEEE Fellow.
News 02-01-2019 Jan Peters zum IEEE Fellow ernannt Prof. Dr. Jan Peters, Leiter der Robot Learning Gruppe am Max Planck Institut für Intelligente Systeme und Professor für Intelligente Autonome Systeme am Fachbereich Informatik der Technischen Universität Darmstadt wurde zum IEEE Fellow ernannt. Er wird hierdurch für seine wichtigen Beiträge zum Maschinellen Lernen für Roboter zum Erwerb von motorischen Fähigkeiten geehrt. Diese Arbeiten haben eine herausragende Bedeutung für die aktuellen Entwicklungen in der künstlichen Intelligenz in gleich zwei Bereichen, der autonomen Robotik und dem maschinellen Lernen, insbesondere dem Reinforcement Learning. Sie haben das Potential, zukünftig intelligentere Roboter in unserem Alltag nützlicher zu machen. Jan Peters
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Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Guillermo Amador joined Wageningen University as an assistant professor in Netherlands.
Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Hakan Ceylan and Metin Sitti's medical microrobotics research was featured as among “5 amazing projects that will change the future of healthcare” by the PC Magazine.
Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Matthew Woodward joined Tufts University as an assistant professor in USA.
Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Metin Sitti received the ERC Advanced Grant for the project titled, "SoMMoR: Soft-bodied Miniature Mobile Robots".
Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Morteza Amjadi joined Heriot-Watt University as an assistant professor in UK.
Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Musab Cagri Ugurlu received the Ministry of Education PhD fellowship from Turkey.
Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Xinjian Fan and Mingtong Li received the CSC PhD fellowship.
Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Jiachen Zhang and Yichao Tang received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship.
Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Ziyu Ren, Tianlu Wang, Wenqi Hu, and Metin Sitti received the Best Paper Award in the Robotics Science and Systems Conference for the research paper entitled, "A Magnetically Actuated Untethered Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Milliswimmer".
Empirical Inference Award 31-12-2018 2018 Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation (Jan Peters et. al.)  
Physical Intelligence Award 19-12-2018 Hamed Shahsavan received the Canadian NSERC postdoctoral fellowship.
Haptic Intelligence Award 18-12-2018 Ph.D. student Mayumi Mohan is selected to participate in the HRI Pioneers 2019 Workshop Mayumi Mohan
Smart Nanoplasmonics Award 18-12-2018 Laura Na Liu receives the Rudolf-Kaiser prize 2018. The award honours a young scientist in experimental physics who has already achieved outstanding scientific achievements but who does not yet hold a German University chair. The prize is intended to improve the starting chances of those who are about to establish themselves scientifically.
Autonomous Motion News 14-12-2018 Launch of Playful, a success The robotic behavior orchestration software is now available to academia and industry. Vincent Berenz
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Empirical Inference Award 13-12-2018 Olivier Bousquet, Leon Bottou: Test of Time Award, 2018 Neural Information Processing Systems conference, for their 2007 paper on “The Tradeoffs of Large Scale Learning” reporting work originally started in 2003 when Olivier Bousquet was a member of our lab.  
Empirical Inference Award 10-12-2018 Bernhard Schölkopf receives the Landesforschungspreis 2018 for Basic Research by the State of Baden-Württemberg.
Empirical Inference News 10-12-2018 Bernhard Schölkopf erhält Landesforschungspreis 2018 Der Direktor der Abteilung für Empirische Inferenz am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme in Tübingen erhält den diesjährigen Landesforschungspreis Baden-Württemberg. Die Auszeichnung ist mit 100.000 Euro dotiert. Theresia Bauer, Ministerin für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, hat den Experten für Maschinelles Lernen im Rahmen eines Festakts in der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart geehrt. Bernhard Schölkopf
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Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 07-12-2018 Superheld Gecko – neuestes Rätsel gelöst! Ein internationales Team von Wissenschaftlern beobachtet das Reptil, wie es über eine Wasseroberfläche rennt – eine Fähigkeit, die keine andere solch mittelgroße Kreatur besitzt. Wie, fragten sich die Wissenschaftler, schaffen es Geckos, so schnell auf dem Wasser zu laufen? Die Entdeckung der Mechanismen, die Geckos dabei einsetzen, katapultiert die Eidechse in die Kategorie der Superhelden. Ardian Jusufi
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News 06-12-2018 European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Launches Top European Machine Learning Scientists Join Forces to Establish European Excellence Network for Public Artificial Intelligence Research Bernhard Schölkopf Matthias Bethge
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Physical Intelligence Award 06-12-2018 Wenqi Hu, Guo Zhan Lum, and Metin Sitti received the Innovator of the Year Award in medical devices topic by the Design & Elektronik Magazine in Germany due to the invention of soft medical robots.
News 05-12-2018 Häufig gestellte Fragen zu Cyber Valley Europas größte Forschungskooperation im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz erhält sehr viel Aufmerksamkeit von der Politik, den Medien, der Wissenschaft und den Menschen aus der Region Stuttgart-Tübingen und darüber hinaus. Hier ist eine Sammlung der am häufigsten gestellten Fragen zu dieser Initiative. Matthias Tröndle Tamara Almeyda Anna Benzin
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Autonomous Learning News 04-12-2018 Poster @ NeurIPS 2018 presentation of our L4 Paper We had a busy 2h poster presentation with many interested visitors
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News 03-12-2018 Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz gestartet Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Cyber Valley Initiative – Schülerinnen und Schüler sollen deutschlandweit eigene KI-Prototypen entwickeln – Registrierung ab sofort möglich Bernhard Schölkopf
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Physical Intelligence Award 01-12-2018 Ahmet F. Tabak and Metin Sitti were the Best Medical Robotics Award Finalist in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference for the research paper entitled, “Mechanical Rubbing of Blood Clots Using Helical Robots Under Ultrasound Guidance”.
Perceiving Systems News 29-11-2018 Michael Black receives UBC Computer Science Department Alumni Research Award 2018 Michael Black was awarded the University of British Columbia, Computer Science Department, Alumni Research Award 2018. Michael Black
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Haptic Intelligence Award 29-11-2018 Ph.D. student Alexis E. Block wins a 2,500 USD research grant from the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics Alexis Block
News 29-11-2018 Österreichs Bundespräsident Van der Bellen besucht das Cyber Valley Am Donnerstag Vormittag, den 29. November 2018, besuchte der österreichische Bundespräsident Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen zusammen mit Baden-Württembergs Ministerpräsident Winfried Kretschmann das Cyber Valley. Bernhard Schölkopf Matthias Tröndle Julia Braun Claudia Daefler
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Autonomous Vision News 27-11-2018 Lars GTC talk on the Dynamics of Generative Adversarial Networks Lars GTC Europe talk on the Dynamics of Generative Adversarial Networks is now available.
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Probabilistic Numerics News 23-11-2018 Top 40 unter 40 Philipp Hennig zählt dieses Jahr zu den "Top 40 unter 40" in der Rubrik Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft Zum elften Mal hat das Magazin Capital die „Junge Elite - die Top 40 unter 40“ gekürt. Laut Capital sind das die wichtigsten Talente, die unser Land prägen. Philipp Hennig
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Physical Intelligence News 22-11-2018 Metin Sitti receives Rahmi Koç Medal of Science Award recognizes most promising researchers of Turkish origin Metin Sitti
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Physical Intelligence Award 21-11-2018 Metin Sitti received the Rahmi Koç Medal of Science, in Turkey, which is given to one world-wide pioneering Turkish-origin scientist each year.
Probabilistic Numerics Award 21-11-2018 Philipp Hennig has been named as one of Germany's "40 under 40" influential young people in the category Science and Society. 
Movement Generation and Control News 20-11-2018 "Revolutionizing" the way robots move in complex environment The Movement Generation and Control Group is an important partner of the new European Project Memmo The EU funded Memmo project aims to revolutionize the way robots with arms and legs move by developing novel real-time methods for motion generation of complex robot, able to cope with the complexity of humanoid and other legged robots in realistic industrial and medical environments. The 4-year-project, led by the LAAS-CNRS in France, involves 10 different partners across Europe including the Movement Generation and Control Group at MPI-IS. Ludovic Righetti Andrea Del Prete Ahmad Gazar
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News 19-11-2018 Cyber Valley bei der AI CON "Im Cyber Valley schaffen Wissenschaft und Industrie gemeinsam ein Ökosystem für die beste KI-Forschung" - Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf Die Konferenz bringt führende KI-Experten aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft zusammen. Bernhard Schölkopf Tamara Almeyda Anna Benzin Claudia Daefler
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