Future Internet research cluster present roadmap

The mobile telephones of the future will be able to see, shrink while becoming larger, and slip into their users’ skins. That terse statement summarizes the recently released results of a thorough look at the next ten to fifteen years of mobile telephony by the Technische Universität Darmstadt’s “Future Internet” research cluster.

Emitting much more light for less electric-power dissipation

Scenarios for the optimal employment of light-emitting diodes for lighting purposes are being investigated at the TU Darmstadt’s Institute for Lighting Technology. The focus is on human perceptions, wellbeing, and health.

Study reveals a colossal role of facebook in users’ emotional life

Participation in social networks, such as Facebook, can cause negative feelings and reduce members’ life satisfaction. Those are the results of a survey with nearly 600 Facebook users by Information Systems scientists at the TU Darmstadt and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Bioscientists develop a biosensor for the early diagnosis of sleeping sickness

Infectious African sleeping sickness is widespread south of the Sahara Desert. Although the around sixty million people residing in tropical Africa run the risk of becoming infected every day, only around four million of them are monitored for the disease by disease-control authorities. TU Darmstadt bioscientists have recently developed a biosensor that provides simple, cost-effective, means for diagnosing incidences of the disease before it breaks out.

Innovative method inexpensively and energetically efficiently reduces CO2 emissions

The "carbonate-looping" method for capturing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), which has been researched at TU Darmstadt could reduce power-plant CO 2 emissions by more than 90 %, while utilizing less energy and incurring less expense than former approaches.

Computer scientist Mira Mezini receives 2.3 million-Euro ERC Advanced Grant

TU Darmstadt computer-science professor Mira Mezini has been honored with the European Union’s best-endowed research award, an “Advanced Grant” of 2.3 million Euros conferred by the European Research Council (ERC). She intends to use the funding for basic research into the programming of software that will be fit for the “cloud.”

“Traffic light” tool allows users to check and readily change settings governing access to their Facebook entries

Simple, but effective: A plug-in developed at the TU Darmstadt for Mozilla Firefox, a widely used Internet browser, allows Facebook users to check their privacy settings at a glance and readily change them.

Political scientist Dr. Miriam Ronzoni to found a research group with prize money

Commencing in November 2012, the TU Darmstadt’s Political Science Institute will be strengthened by the addition of Dr. Miriam Ronzoni to its faculty. As the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation announced today, Ronzoni will receive this year’s Sophia Kovalevskaya Prize. She plans to use the around € 1.6 million prize money to found her own research group at the TU Darmstadt.

Semiconductor Lasers for the Fiberoptic Communications Networks of the Future

Working in collaboration with their partners under the EU’s “Subtune” project, scientists at the TU Darmstadt have developed semiconductor lasers that emit light over a wavelength range of 100 nm, a new world record for a single semiconductor laser. Such lasers might allow more efficient, lower-cost operation of future fiberoptic telecommunications networks and the development of high-responsivity gas sensors.

BASF, Heidelberg und TU Darmstadt continue cooperation

BASF SE, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg), and TU Darmstadt are pleased with the results of the first phase of the joint research project "Nanostructuring and plastic electronics print platform" (NanoPEP) and have agreed to continue their joint work.

New method has potential to advance materials measurement

Using a one-of-a-kind laser system at Los Alamos National Laboratory, scientists, with participation from physicist Prof. Dr. Markus Roth of TU Darmstadt, have created the largest neutron beam ever made by a short-pulse laser, breaking a world record. Neutron beams are usually made with particle accelerators or nuclear reactors and are commonly used in a wide variety of scientific research, particularly in advanced materials science.

TU Darmstadt software utilizes data from the Internet for interpreting statistics

Computer scientists at the TU Darmstadt have developed software that, aided by linked open data, i.e., enormous collections of semantically linked data accessible on the Internet, discovers correlations and regularities in statistics and formulates hypotheses regarding its interpretation.

TU Darmstadt Computer Scientists Develop “Smart” Code-Completion Tool

Unlike conventional code-completion tools, “Code Recommenders” suggests just the most-plausible alternatives for the particular context involved, instead of offering a list of all available options. Eclipse users may download an open-source version, commencing Wednesday, June 27.

Researchers at the TU Darmstadt have developed a new technique to measure the size and velocity of droplets and particles in a flow. The new method measures reliably also non-transparent particles and droplets of suspensions or emulsions. Industrial application areas include primarily diagnostics in processes such as spray drying, spray painting or in the food industry.

Liquid-crystal antenna allows stable satellite-broadcast reception in vehicles

Satellite-television reception and stable Internet links to earth satellites have thus far demanded employment of stationary antennae. However, a doctoral candidate at the Technische Universität Darmstadt has developed a space-saving, inexpensive, and extremely rapidly, electronically redirectable antenna that should allow automobiles, ships, and aircraft to maintain stable radiocommunications with earth satellites.