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Winning teams back from China to share their experiences
Published Feb 15, 2019Miquel Larsson Corominas and Elena Florentina Ionescu are back from their one week trip to China. They belonged to the winning teams of a Hackathon hold between the EECS-school and Technology company ...
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A new glucose monitor for diabetics proves virtually painless and even more accurate
The frequency of finger prick tests could be reduced with a glucose monitoring system being developed at KTH. (Photo: Alden Chadwick/CC BY 2.0) Published Jan 07, 2019A more comfortable and reliable blood-sugar monitoring system is being designed at KTH for people with diabetes. After successfully testing a prototype of a microneedle patch on a human subject, the c...
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At core of software leader SAP's product, an open source code developed at KTH
Computer Science Professor Christian Schulte's Gecode configuration engine is at the core of one of software leader SAP's leading products. (Photo: David Callahan) Published Jan 03, 2019Open source software developed at KTH is at the core of a business system from German software giant SAP. The system S/4HANA has nearly 400,000 customers, who are influenced on a daily basis by KTH pr...
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Million rain over KTH for interdisciplinary project
Published Dec 14, 2018A research team lead by Göran Stemme, Professor in Micro and Nanosystems, has been awarded 26.5 MSEK by the Swedish Research Council for a seven year interdisciplinary research project. The project wi...
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Mikael Skoglund named IEEE Fellow
Professor Mikael Skoglund Published Dec 11, 2018When the IEEE association announced the Fellows for 2019, non-other than Mikael Skoglund, professor in Information Science and Engineering, was found on that list. Skoglund receives the award for his ...
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KTH top 30 at world’s largest AI conference
Published Dec 03, 2018Today marks the start of Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), the world’s largest and most prestigious conference in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), an arena to whi...
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Interactive design ideas unveiled by master's students
"Sand Mirror", designed by (from left) Andreas Almqvist from Sweden, Karolina Drobotowic from Poland and Tallulah Gillard from France. Published Nov 02, 2018Master’s students in the Physical Interaction Design course held an exhibition in the Library this week, where they demonstrated their team projects.
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Robots that lend a “hand” carrying objects are a breakthrough for human-machine cooperation
In the test environment, researchers show how a robot works cooperatively on a physical task with a human. Published Oct 26, 2018Physical interaction between robots and humans is advancing to a new level, as researchers report.
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One thousand high school students attended Future Friday
Published Oct 25, 2018What kind of career opportunities will technologies offer in the future? KTH’s inspirational Future Friday event for high school students took place last week, offering a glimpse of what awaits young ...
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New method of mapping the voice could improve the treatment of voice patients
Published Oct 25, 2018The measurement methods commonly used in voice therapy do not usually take into account how different individual voices are. A new thesis from KTH presents a method by which a person´s entire voice ra...
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Oscar Quevedo-Teruel named IEEE distinguished lecturer
Published Oct 24, 2018As of last week Oscar Quevedo-Teruel, professor at the Department of Electromagnetic Engneering, can add IEEE distinguished lecture to his resume. The title, which was given by the IEEE Antennas and P...
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Strengthen your company's cyber security with KTH's Online Course in Ethical Hacking
Published Oct 24, 2018Apply to the Online Course in Ethical Hacking open for businesses by December 15.
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Study shows faster, scalable way to make molecular semiconductors
A nano-scale view of a molecular junction created with a new, scalable method reported in Nature Communications by researchers at KTH. Published Oct 16, 2018Visions for what we can do with future electronics depend on finding ways to go beyond the capabilities of silicon conductors. The experimental field of molecular electronics is thought to represent a...
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Software researcher wants to see more transparency
Published Oct 01, 2018Castor, a research center for software development at KTH, has been inaugurated. Managing director Benoit Baudry wants to see an increased exchange between researchers and companies. He hopes that ope...
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AI created more than 100,000 pieces of music after analyzing Irish and English folk tunes
Bob Sturm performs one of the pieces generated by artificial intelligence in the style of Irish and English traditional music. Published Sep 24, 2018At turns lively and yearning, the traditional folk musics of Ireland and Britain have made their mark around the world. Now this perennially popular music is helping computers learn to become a new ki...
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Jakob Nordström elected member of Young Academy
Published Sep 03, 2018The Young Academy of Sweden recently welcomed eight new members, and one of them is Associate Professor Jakob Nordström. In this new role, Jakob hopes to be able to work on, among other things, questi...
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Dosed with crystal meth, brain-on-a-chip reveals brain's neurovascular interactions
The left and right chips represent the blood brain barrier in-flow and out-flow. In the center is the brain chip. The blue fluids show artificial spinal fluid and the red show artificial blood. In each chip, the colored channel is approximately 2 cm long. Published Aug 29, 2018Demonstrating the effects of the street drug, crystal meth, was the first test for a powerful new platform for studying the complex interactions of the brain’s blood vessels and nerve cells. Unveiled ...
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EECS subjects advances on ShanghaiRanking
Published Aug 23, 2018When the ShanghaiRanking announced their ranking by subject for 2018 KTH placed top 50 in eight subjects, five of which have strong connections to the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci...
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Huawei invests in EECS students
From left. Markus Palmqvist,Mattias Stahre, Markus Hidell, Oscar Dahl, Jacob Kimblad Published Aug 22, 2018Four students from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science are right now in China participating in Huawei's two-week program "Seeds for the Future". In a cooperation between KTH and ...
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The Knuth Prize to Johan Håstad
Published Aug 22, 2018ACM and the IEEE Computer Society have decided to award the Knuth Prize of 2018 to Johan Håstad, professor at the Department of Theoretical Computer Science. Håstad receives the award for his long and...
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