Adlershof Special 21

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BETWEEN NOW AND TOMORROW// MULTICOLOURED COMPUTER SCIENCE// HARVESTING ENERGY// THE ROLLING ROUTER// COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE// INDOOR NAVIGATION WITH FREE WLAN// PIXEL ON PIXEL// ADLERHOF IN FIGURES Download now: [more]

Pixel on pixel

Glasses on, lights off, and the journey has started

Over the oceans with Darwin on the Beagle. The waves spray, and the swooping gulls virtually graze the tip of your nose – close enough to touch. The 3D dome cinema at Fraunhofer FIRST presents “Darwin’s mystery of mysteries” – a test show in the test dome. Here, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology (FIRST) presents its latest developments in the automated calibration of projector clusters. The... [more]

Computer sciences for the people

If research fields were to confer awards for the ideal qualification, Johannes Starlinger would certainly be among the shortlisted candidates. In actual fact, he wanted to be a doctor, but he was stunned when his medical studies at the Medical University of Vienna required him to pick out and sort patient data laboriously and by hand. “Unbelievable,” found Starlinger: “Things like that should be automated.” After his medical studies, he opted... [more]

Key experiences in the school-lab

Making experiments instead of memorising formulas: Getting children into science and technology works better at unusual places for learning than in a classroom. More importantly: Today‘s little researchers might become the scientists of tomorrow. A visit to the DLR School Lab of the German Aerospace Center is a truly cosmic Experience for school children: There, they handle real meteorites that have been milled to extremely thin and almost... [more]

The learning factory

„A child is like a scientist. They create tasks for themselves and search for solutions. They are able to learn by themselves.“ The kindergarten „Campus Adlershof“, which opened last year in November, lives by this basic idea of progressive educationist Loris Malaguzzi.In a knowledge-based society like ours, independent learning is more important than ever before – this is not just the case in childhood, learning is a life-long effort. Germany‘s... [more]

When the testers are tested

Accreditation for Adlershof companies and institutions

“Accreditation is always a competitive advantage,” explained Professor Jürgen Leonhardt, head of the Adlershof based Institut für Umwelttechnologien (IUT) GmbH. Leonhardt’s company has verifi ed in the form of accreditation that its physical and physical-chemical examinations of waste water, water, slurry, and sediments comply precisely with the applicable standards, guidelines, and laws. “Certain calls for tenders,” confi ded Leonhardt, “allow... [more]

Immersing into Processes

Modern analytical methods in bioanalytics

Whether the inside of cells or haze in the atmosphere, modern analytical methods depict images of worlds both inside and around us. And these methods are gaining in precision and speed. “Without analytical chemistry there would be no climate research,” was the announcement in March at the ANAKON conference for analytical chemistry in Zurich. Modern techniques of atmospheric chemistry not only provide precise details on the composition of the... [more]

Searching for traces in a new light

ISAS and Analytik Jena enrich chemical research with analysis devices

When the top US firm Perkin Elmer withdrew in 2001 from its location in Überlingen by Lake Constance, the industrial experts for instrumental analytics in South Germany and the spectroscopy specialists at today’s Berlin Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences (ISAS) were faced with the pending doom of their successful cooperation. This cooperation had powered some interesting joint developments, for instance a new variant of atomic absorption... [more]

DIW report on Adlershof for download

"Impact on added value, employment and tax revenues in Berlin"

At the end of 2010, WISTA MANAGEMEMT GMBH commissioned DIW econ GmbH, the consulting company of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), to assess regional economic stimuli resulting from the economic and scientific activities in the Adlershof development area for added value, employment and tax revenues in Berlin. Moreover, DIW econ conducted research on the development of public and private sector investments and future growth... [more]

SENTECH received Megawatt Honor Award in China

SENTECH’s spectroscopic ellipsometer has been awarded in the category “Top 10 Highlights”

We are proud to announce that SENTECH’s spectroscopic ellipsometer SE 800 PV has been awarded with the Megawatt Honor Award at the SNEC PV Conference and Exhibition 2011 in Shanghai China in the category “Top 10 Highlights”. The award underlines the success of SENTECH Instruments of being a leading provider of spectroscopic ellipsometers for measurements of thickness and refractive index of anti-reflective coatings on silicon solar... [more]

Solidarity with Japan

The Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) team at the HZB is offering synchrotron beam time to the Japanese MX-community

The Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) team at the HZB is offering synchrotron beam time to the Japanese MX-community. The offer entails access to the most advanced and automated MX-beamline currently available in Germany, HZB’s BL14.1. More information on the beamline. From April 2011 until September 2011, 24 hours of beam time will be available for the Japanese MX-community every other week. Interested Japanese MX-users may send their... [more]

German scientists set up platform to help Japanese colleagues

Initiative of the Leibniz Association, together with other organizations

Scientists of the Leibniz Association, together with colleagues from other organizations, have set up an initiative to help Japanese scientists, whose work is endangered by the devastating impact of the quake and the tsunami. Nippon Science Support Network was established as an internet-based platform www.nipponsciencesupport.net where German institutes can offer funding resources, exchange schemes and open positions for visiting students and... [more]

Interview with Prof Dr Stefan Jähnichen, Head of Fraunhofer FIRST and President of the German association of computer scientists

Adlershof Special: As the strategic technologies for 2011, the US market research company Gartner names 1) cloud computing, 2) mobile applications and media tablets, and 3) social networks. What would be your top three? Jähnichen: What we are discussing is the future of computer science, so cloud computing and social networks are, to me at least, rather “old” subjects. My top three are embedded systems, multi- and many core architectures, and... [more]

Don’t be shy now: Social media technologies for senior citizens

Luise Schmidt is 68 and has a heart complaint. She likes knitting and lives alone. Luise Schmidt is also a prototypical senior citizen: not a real person, but invented by Dr Michael John and his colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIR ST in Adlershof. With userbased procedures like these, the scientists intend to find out how man-machine interfaces, or so called graphic user interfaces, must... [more]

Safe Ways: Early warning system for earthquakes in Istanbul

A metropolis of 13 million inhabitants, Istanbul is arming itself for a major earthquake. When it comes, nobody to this day can predict. So researchers are working on an early warning system. “This could make it possible to take emergency measures in good time, for instance shutting off electricity, lowering the pressure in gas lines, and deploying rescue services to areas that are expected to be hit particularly hard”, explained Joachim... [more]