07/07/2021 | fortiss research fellow Prof. Klaus Diepold and his team have been recognized with the 2021 TUM Start-up Mentor of Excellence Award. The award will be presented for the first time at the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) and honors outstanding engagement in the transfer of top technology from research to innovative market-ready products, as well as the promotion of talent at the Technical University Munich TUM.

06/30/2021 | The vision of autonomous driving is constantly drawing ever nearer and apart from major economic success, it promises improved traffic safety. But with the development and implementation of self-driving vehicles at the latest, manufacturers now have to deal with a new challenge that the traditional IT industry has long had to deal with: cyber attacks. The ISO 21434 standard defines the path to more security in the future. With its white paper “Security Engineering for ISO 21434”, fortiss is for the first time providing a practical implementation guideline for engineers in the automobile industry.

06/23/2021 | Reusing organic waste materials as opposed to disposing of it was a key goal of the now-completed digital raw materials exchange project co-managed by fortiss and the Center of Competence for Nutrition (KErn). The project partners were searching for a digital way to connect suppliers and customers with one another in order to exchange raw materials. The result of the three-year project was a digital platform that creates an opportunity to structure food production in a more sustainable fashion, take better advantage of the potential of regional structures, more effectively integrate existing know-how and with the help of digitalization to create a more sustainable value chain.

05/26/2021 | Where does research into the development and application of artificial intelligence (AI) stand today? What opportunities and challenges does AI present for industry and society? The AI Engineering @ fortiss 2020 Annual Report provides an up-to-date answer to these and other questions. In the report, you will find a comprehensive overview of the current AI research activities at fortiss, the research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software-intensive systems and services

05/05/2021 | Sending a strong signal, the European Union is setting out to build a sovereign, federal data infrastructure. Referred to as GAIA-X, the project, which involves numerous European representatives from industry, science and public administration, will serve as the development of a high-performance, competitive, secure and trustworthy digital ecosystem for Europe. fortiss is a Day-1 Member and contributes significantly to the goals of the initiative with its expertise in the field of intelligent infrastructures.

04/21/2021 | The Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software-intensive systems fortiss and the technology company IBM established the Center for AI exactly two years ago to develop safe AI methods for business and society. In the meantime, the experts from IBM and the scientists from fortiss have successfully implemented several AI research projects. The focus of the cooperation has always been the question: "When is an AI reliable and how can users understand how or why an AI makes decisions?" Dr. Holger Pfeifer, Competence Area Manager Software Dependability at fortiss, coordinates the Center for AI and is a specialist in Robust AI. In the following interview, he reports on the successful collaboration with an international technology leader and the significant progress made in the past two years.

03/31/2021 | There are numerous concepts for the “intelligent, clever city,” all of which in theory are linked to the same vision: creating a connected and sustainable environment that centers on the quality of life of the residents. Infrastructure, energy supply, mobility, information and communication all play a key role in the implementation, as do the digital technologies that are used to help implement these services.

03/24/2021 | Digitalization is a megatrend and a key to the Bavarian industry’s ability to innovate and compete. With small-to-medium enterprises however, there is a considerable amount of uncertainty regarding the opportunities and risks associated with digitalization. With this in mind, fortiss and the Technical University Munich collaborated on a white paper titled “QuickCheck Digitalization – Digital Transformation in Bavarian Companies” that outlines the current status of digitalization and identifies problem areas in order to derive targeted recommendations for a digitalization strategy.

03/17/2021 | The digitalization of public administration services, which is in full swing, is one of the key projects of the German government. Within the framework of the implementation of the German Online Access law (OZG), the current focus is on further digitalization of the communication between government administrative offices and users. The idea is to make public administration services not only more digital, but more user-friendly.