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At the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems we aim to understand the principles of Perception, Action and Learning in artificially intelligent systems.
Stuttgart and Tübingen
Joined July 2014
Congratulations to Ellen Rumley on successfully defending her Ph.D.! 🎓🥳 Ellen made a memorable impression as the first graduate from our Robotic Materials Department, dressed in impressive armor reminiscent of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and symbol of @maxplanckpress!
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We are thrilled to officially announce that @mrtz has been appointed a Director at the #MaxPlanck Institute for Intelligent Systems! He founds the Social Foundations of Computation department, taking a social perspective on #ComputerScience and #ML:
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Our Director @bschoelkopf receives the 2022 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for his groundbreaking research in the field of #MachineLearning & #Causality @TheOfficialACM The Award is one of the world's most important prizes in the #research field of #AI:
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In 10 days, MPI-IS will 🎉 its 10-year anniversary as one of the world's leading #research institutes on #IntelligentSystems. Every day leading up to this 😄 event we'll post one image per year: in 2011 founding directors @bschoelkopf & @Michael_J_Black toast to the reorientation
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We are pleased to announce that @Bernhardschoelkopf has received 2019 Körber European Science Prize. Congratulations! @koerberstiftung
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Our ELLIS Ph.D. program is sending out a call for applications. Apply by Nov 15 to join in 2022! The program is a key element of @ELLISforEurope. Its goal is to foster and educate the best talent in #machinelearning and related #research areas:
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We are hiring! Apply now to our International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems. We are looking for the generation of doctoral students who are curious, creative, and passionate about intelligent systems:
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The #MachineLearning Summer School is in full swing and running until the end of the week. We are very pleased to have you all with us in #Tuebingen, even if only virtually this time! Check out all #MLSS2020 lectures online at
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Researching #AI #MachineLearning #Robotics #ComputerVision? Join our elite #PhD program - a partnership with @uni_stuttgart & @uni_tue! Applications accepted until Nov 1, 2022 at #Hiring #Job
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🧑🎓This could be you in a few years! The #MaxPlanck Center for Learning Systems CLS is offering fully-funded doctoral fellowships! Apply now! Ph.D. students are co-supervised by advisors from @ETH_en and the Max Planck Society:
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We are joining forces in #SupportingEllis: The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) announced the formation of its professional association at #NeurIPS : @bschoelkopf We have prominent support from the world´s top #AI companies!
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And another one. :-).Bernhard Schölkopf receives LEIBNIZ-PRIZE 2018. Germany's most prestigious research funding prize - €2.5 million each for outstanding research work. Congratulations! #DFG #maxplanck #Tuebingen #MachineLearning
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At #NeurIPS2019 Turing award winner Yoshua Bengio, Bernhard Schoelkopf @bschoelkopf, Nuria Olivier, @MatthiasBethge, Max Welling, @samikaski, Sepp Hochreiter and Turing award winner Yann LeCun @ylecun are all #SupportingELLIS @ELLISforEurope
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Congratulations! @GMartius, who leads the Autonomous Learning #Research Group @MPI_IS in #Tübingen, is awarded an @ERC_Research Consolidator Grant to develop autonomous #robots that learn from simulated experience: #Science #MaxPlanck #AI @maxplanckpress
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Europe's top #machinelearning scientists gathered at #NeurIPS2019 to celebrate the establishment of 17 @EllisforEurope units. Built around outstanding #AI researchers, the newly established #research units are devoted to tackling fundamental challenges in AI. #SupportingEllis #KI
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Europe´s leading #AI and #MachineLearning researchers want to form a European AI hub to compete with the US and China. In an open letter, the scientists say the proposed #Ellis institute is essential to avoid brain drain to big tech firms:
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Our highlight in 2014 was @metin_sitti joining our institute as a new director. He is a pioneer in wireless medical robots, gecko-inspired adhesives, and bio-inspired miniature robots and named his department "Physical Intelligence". From 2014 to today, his citations are up 280%!
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Interested in doing a Ph.D. in #MachingLearning @MPI_IS and @CambridgeMLG??? We offer a great collaborative fellowship where you spend one year at one institution and 3 years at the other. Apply until December 1, 2021! #Tübingen #Cambridge #AI.
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🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to our Director Bernhard Schölkopf! 🎉🎉🎉.
🎉Der Deutsche #KIPreis von @axelspringer und @welt geht ins #CyberValley: @bschoelkopf gewann gestern den #KI Innovationspreis: er ist einer der international angesehensten Wissenschafler im Bereich #MachineLearning & eine der prägendsten Persönlichkeiten der globalen #AI Szene.
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"I am honored to receive this award. It is a great acknowledgment of my team's breakthrough #research efforts,” says @metin_sitti, our Director of the #PhysicalIntelligence at the #MaxPlanck Institute for Intelligent Systems in #Stuttgart.
🎉🎆Der Robotiker @metin_sitti, Direktor am @MPI_IS, erhält auf dem Wissenschaftsgipfel #FallingWalls in #Berlin den "Breakthrough of the Year" Award in der Kategorie #Engineering & #Technology für seine #Forschung an drahtlosen Mini-Robotern: #Stuttgart
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Congratulations @Michael_J_Black and his former students @DeqingSun and @stefanroth for winning the Longuet-Higgins Prize at #CVPR2020! Details here:
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Researching #AI #MachineLearning #Robotics or #HCI? Join our elite #PhD program - a partnership with @uni_stuttgart & @uni_tue! Applications accepted until Nov 15, 2023 at #Hiring #Job #KI #Tübingen #Stuttgart
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The first Group Leaders join our ELLIS Institute #Tübingen gGmbH as Hector Endowed Fellows: @orvieto_antonio, @wielandbr, @CeleMenDu, @jonasgeiping.They will conduct cutting-edge #research in close collaboration with us and the Tübingen #AI Center:
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Scientists @MPI_IS developed a magnetically controlled soft #robot inspired by a #pangolin. Depending on the magnetic field, it can adapt its shape to be able to move, plus emit heat when needed. The #research was published in @NatureComms: @metin_sitti
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🎉 🥳 Congratulations Dr. Ziyu Ren! Our postdoc in the Physical Intelligence Department, who also studied at @ETH_en, won an #ETH Silver Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis🤖 In the picture, you can see @Vision21437617 with @metin_sitti.#Robotics #AI
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🎉🎊👏Happy Birthday to us! We turn 10 today! We have every reason to be proud, the past decade has been amazingly exciting! We achieved so much, published like crazy & significantly shaped the research fields of #AI, #MachineLearning, #Haptics, #ComputerVision & #Robotics! 🍾🥂
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Want to join this amazing #IMPRSIS community of talented young researchers in the field of #AI #MachineLearning #Robotics & #ComputerVision? Join our #PhD program - a partnership with @uni_stuttgart & @uni_tue! New application round until Nov 1, 2022
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We are hiring Independent Research Group Leaders to establish up to two new independent #MaxPlanck Research Groups at our institute’s #Tübingen site and one independent @CyberValley Research Group located in Stuttgart: #CyberValley #MachineLearning #AI #KI
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#MaxPlanck and @ELLISInst_Tue Director @bschoelkopf speaks at the opening ceremony of our Ellis Institute #Tübingen, surrounded by some of the world‘s best #MachineLearning scientists - among them @ylecun - and prominent guests such as @mpgpresident & #SAP co-founder Mr. Hector
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🎉 Our Ph.D. student Birgül Akolpoglu @akolpoglu was selected to join the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting #LINO23! Birgül is a micro roboticist and works in our Physical Intelligence Department. In June, she will meet some of the world’s greatest minds.
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In 2021, it is yet again raining Nobel Prizes for the Max Planck Society! We are so proud! Congratulations.
Sorry for repeating ourselves - but we are speechless AGAIN!😯🙂😯🙂😀🎉🤗🙃😯😁😃😁😯🙃🍾🎉😀🙂😃😁😯🙃🤗🍾🎉😀🙂😀🎉🍾🤗🙃😯😁😃😁😯🙃🤗🍾🎉😀🙂😯🙂😀🍾🎉#NobelPrizeChemistry2021 Benjamin List @maxplanckpress Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung🤗😯🙂😀🍾😯🎉🤗🙃😁😃😁🙃🤗🎉.
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Funded Ph.D. positions are available at the #MaxPlanck @ETH Center for Learning Systems, known as CLS. Apply now to join the academic program between @ETH_en and the @maxplanckpress, primarily our MPI-IS in #Stuttgart and #Tübingen:
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🥳Congratulations!!! 🙌.
Bernhard Schölkopf @bschoelkopf receives the Frontiers of Knowledge Award! The #BBVA Foundation recognizes him for his work that has advanced the field of #ArtificialIntelligence by teaching machines the human skill of classifying data #MachineLearning:
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The times, they are a changing! In the run-up to our 10th birthday on March 18, we look back to 2012: A year after our institute's reorientation, we went on the first MPI-IS retreat to the Black Forest. Fast-forward to 2019: in just 8 years, we grew to four times as many people!
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Congratulations Siyu Tang, who is one of the most promising talents in the field of #ComputerVision! Our postdoctoral researcher in the @PerceivingSyst1 Department lead by @Michael_J_Black joins #ETHZurich as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor: @ETH_en
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🎉 👏Congratulations Junhyung Park for defending your Ph.D. thesis! Next stop is a postdoc position in the Statistical #MachineLearning Group at @ETH_en. From September to December 2024, Jun will also be visiting the Simons Institute at @UCBerkeley. @bschoelkopf
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Today, one year after the devastating earthquakes in #Turkey and #Syria, members of the Max Planck Society are proud to introduce MAXMINDS, a mentoring initiative aimed at empowering university students affected by the disaster: @maxplanckpress
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Congratulations @metin_sitti ! The @ERC_Research Council is awarding an #ERC Advanced Grant to our Director, a leading researcher in the field of small-scale and soft #robotics: #ERCAdG @maxplanckpress #MaxPlanck
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Research beacons MPI-IS and @ETH Zurich strengthen their cooperation. Both institutions in the field of intelligent systems and #AI have agreed to continue their #research partnership, the #MaxPlanck ETH Center for Learning Systems, for a further 5 years:
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We are hiring! Calling all outstanding candidates in the field of intelligent systems to establish up to two new W2 independent #research groups at our institute's #Stuttgart site: #Robotics, Human-Machine Interaction, Robotics for #Healthcare, #AI etc.
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Congratulations to Isabel Valera, who recently became Group Leader of the newly established Probabilistic Learning Group at MPI-IS in Tübingen. Well done, Isabel! .
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Our Institute is launching a video series! We will be releasing several short films that present our researchers, their projects and goals. We want to show what we work on! Watch the first video in full length here: @maxplanckpress #AI #CyberValley #KI
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Become a Center For Learning Systems doctoral researcher! The application portal is now open until Nov 5th:.It's a fully-funded doctoral fellowship program with co-supervision by one advisor from ETH Zürich . (1/2)
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Our director @Michael_J_Black has been elected to @Leopoldina. Congratulations on your membership to Germany's National Academy of Sciences! @uni_tue @Cyber_Valley #AI .
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We are hiring, looking for outstanding candidates in the field of intelligent systems to establish up to two new W2 independent #research groups at our institute's #Stuttgart site: #Robotics, Human-Machine Interaction, Robotics for #Healthcare, #AI etc.
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Our Institute and the #CyberValley initiative are looking for outstanding candidates in the field of intelligent systems to establish three new independent #MaxPlanck #Research Groups. Apply or spread the word! .
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#MLSS2020 has been over for a week, but we'll be feeling the warm and fuzzies for a while thanks to all the great moments we experienced. Meeting the talented #AMMI students who tuned in from Ghana and Rwanda was one of them. Thanks again @Moustapha_6C and @AIMS_Next!
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Top 40 under 40: According to the magazine Capital, these are the most important talents that shape our country. Philipp Hennig, group leader at our institute and Professor at the University of Tübingen, is one of them this year. Congratulations! @uni_tue @maxplanckpress
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The International #MaxPlanck #Research School for Intelligent Systems is currently accepting applications for its 7th hiring round. This elite #PhD program is a partnership we have with @Uni_Stuttgart & @uni_tue. Applications possible until Nov. 1, 2022:
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The members of the European Laboratory for Learning & Intelligent Systems, a network of European research labs in the field of #machinelearning, today launched several ELLIS Programs at a meeting in San Sebastián, Spain: #SupportingELLIS #AI @bschoelkopf.
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Amazing #robotics: Researchers in our Physical Intelligence Department in #Stuttgart @Akolpoglu, @yunusalapan, @metin_sitti etc have developed bacteria-based biohybrid #microrobots featuring artificial components that could one day help battle #cancer:
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We were very pleased to take Chancellor #Merkel on a virtual tour of the Capture Hall @PerceivingSys yesterday as part of her visit to #CyberValley. What an honour it was to showcase our work in #ComputerVision and help make #AI research in Stuttgart-Tübingen more visible!
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LAST CHANCE TO APPLY! Nov. 1, 2021 is the application deadline for our doctoral program #IMPRSIS, the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems. Join an ecosystem of world-leading #AI research and really cool people: #CyberValley #KI.
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Join our IMPRS-IS PhD program - a partnership with @uni_stuttgart & @uni_tue! Application deadline Nov 15, 2023. Apply at
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Could a simple color patch throw self-driving vehicles off track? A team of #ComputerVision researchers in #Tübingen show that optical flow systems based on #DeepNeuralNetworks are vulnerable: @Michael_J_Black #autonomousdriving #AI #MachineLearning #KI
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Come join us as a doctoral student at our #IMPRSIS, the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems. Apply now and join an ecosystem of world-leading #AI research: #CyberValley #KI
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Tune in today at 5:30 p.m. (CEST) for the annual Max Planck Lecture. This year's speaker is world-renowned computer scientist Yoshua Bengio from @UMontreal. His talk: "#MachineLearning for #COVID19 Risk Awareness from Contact Tracing". Details here:
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The application deadline is fast approaching. Apply now for a 3-month #CaCTüS #internship in Germany🇩🇪 in summer 2024 and pursue a #research project in #machinelearning, #robotics, #neuroscience, or related fields. More info: #maxplanck @MPICybernetics
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We were delighted that @zhenanbao held our 2022 #MaxPlanck Lecture today. Zhenan is a Professor @Stanford and talked about “Skin-Inspired Organic Electronics”, highlighting the right formula and the complex material properties of such devices:
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The @Cambridge_Uni -Tübingen PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning is currently accepting applications for the next cohort. Find out more about the program here: .#machineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence.
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A first-time cooperation between @metin_sitti and his team and @mpifkf resulted in a @PNASNews publication showing a solar-battery effect that enables a new light-driven organic #microswimmer to operate in the dark. Find out more:
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Congratulations! This is well deserved!!!.
We are speechless!🎉🙃😃🎉🎉🙃😃🤗🙃☺️🙃🙂😄🎉#NobelPrizePhysics 2021 😀🙃🎉☺️Klaus Hasselmann @MPI_Meteo😃🎉😃😀🙃😀🎉😊🙂🙃😀😄🎉@maxplanckpress🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🎉🙂🎉☺️🙃🎉🙂😀☺️🙃🎉🙂😀☺️🙃😀🙃😂😀🎉 😊🙂🙃😊😀😊🙃.
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Scientists @MPI_IS in #Stuttgart have developed a soft #robot that can help visualise in real time the fine morphological details of partial vascular blockages such as stenoses, even in the narrowest and most curved vessels: @metin_sitti @ScienceAdvances
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In a comment for @NatureMaterials, scientists @MPI_IS discuss together with collaborators from @Cornell and @MIT issues that currently stand in the way of a wide-spread use of functional soft materials in real-world robotic systems:
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The MPG @maxplanckpress appointed Patrick Cramer, Director @mpi_nat, as new President-elect 2023 to 2029. Today, he is visiting both our institute sites in #Stuttgart and #Tübingen to learn about our #research in #AI #ComputerVision #Robotics #MachineLearning & to meet the staff.
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ELLIS launches $220 million initiative to keep #AI talent in Europe: @ELLISforEurope #SupportingEllis #NeurIPS2019 #MaxPlanck @bschoelkopf.
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Researching #AI #ComputerVision #MachineLearning #Robotics #HCI? Join our elite doctoral program - a partnership with MPI-IS, @uni_stuttgart & @uni_tue! Applications accepted until Nov 15, 2024 at
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Congratulations to Andreas Geiger, the leader of our Research Group for Autonomous Vision and Professor of Computer Science @uni_tue for receiving the .@ERC_Research Starting Grant!
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Our MPI-IS is a world leading #research institution in #AI, #MachineLearning, #ComputerVision & #Robotics. We created an image film to highlight who we are & how we thrive in the dynamic ecosystem in #Tübingen & #Stuttgart @Cyber_Valley @ELLISforEurope .
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.@metin_sitti and his team took a leukocyte as the blueprint and developed a #microrobot that has the size, shape and moving capabilities of a white blood cell. Their work was published in #ScienceRobotics today. Find out more about the microroller here:
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🎉🎊Our Postdoc @AlbaneRuaud was selected to join the 72nd @lindaunobel Meeting #LINO23. Yeah! Albane's #research focusses on modelling microbial communities using graph #neuralnetworks to study how bacteria interact with each other. Find out more here:
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch an .@bschoelkopf. zum #Körberpreis , der heute im Rathaus #Hamburg verliehen wurde! #KünstlicheIntelligenz #KI .@MPI_IS @maxplanckpress @Cyber_Valley (photos: Körber Stiftung/ David Ausserhofer)
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Today, @athn_nik, @mkocab and @Michael_J_Black are presenting VIBE at #CVPR2020. This new video-based approach to 3D motion capture makes virtual avatars more realistic than ever. Find out more here:
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A soft material that heals itself instantaneously? Is this possible? Yep! A team at our Institute and at @penn_state published their work in @NatureMaterials today: @abdon_pf @metin_sitti @melikcdemirel
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Call for applications: Apply by November 15, 2022 to join the @ELLISforEurope PhD Program in 2023! Apply via Ellis fosters and educates the best talent in #MachineLearning and related #research areas such as #ComputerVision #AI #KI #Robotics #DeepLearning
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In 2017, our highlight was Katherine J. Kuchenbecker joining our institute as Director of the #HapticIntelligence Department. This image of her, the other directors & #MaxPlanck Society's President was shot during the opening of our building in #Tübingen:
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Congratulations to Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Director at the MPI-IS Stuttgart site and of the Haptic Intelligence Department, for becoming the first female Managing Director in the Institute's history. Her 18-month term started July 1.
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📢 We are looking for a new #Research Group Leader to join our institute in #Stuttgart. Know anyone - then please help us spread the word! We are looking for outstanding candidates in the field of intelligent systems: #Robotics #MachineLearning #AI #KI
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Researchers at our institute in #Stuttgart have designed and fabricated an untethered #microrobot that is actuated through ultrasound. It's amazing #research that was published in @PNASNews: @maxplanckpress #CyberValley #robotics #AI #KI @metin_sitti
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Metin Sitti & his team are finalists for the prestigious 2020 Cozzarelli Prize awarded by @PNASNews. "This recognition testifies to the outstanding & high-impact #research in my group, our institute, and across the #MaxPlanck Society", says @metin_sitti .
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🎉🥳🎂Happy Birthday to us! Our institute was founded 11 years ago: The Senate @maxplanckpress decided on March 18, 2011 to rename the former MPI for Metals Research to MPI for Intelligent Systems. It's been quite a ride since then! Well done & keep up the good #research! 😄 💖
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Directors Bernhard Schölkopf and Michael Black were guests of #Chancellor #AngelaMerkel who hosted a roundtable discussion on the topic of #ArtificialIntelligence, in which the potentials and challenges of AI for Germany were discussed. We support ELLIS:
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We are thrilled to announce that three of our scientists are among the #ICML2019 Best Paper Award winning team! Well done guys! We are celebrating, as the MPI-IS has never co-won this award before! #MaxPlanck @maxplanckpress @bschoelkopf #MachineLearning
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We're so proud: Our main doctoral program #IMPRSIS, heart of the #CyberValley initiative, is on track to double its size in 2019! It far exceeds expectations! Many more #AI, #Robotics, #MachineLearning etc researchers will join us soon. @maxplanckpress
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Congratulations, we are delighted to have you! 😀.
Just started a group at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (@MPI_IS) & Tübingen AI Center🎉 Focus: robustness, identifiable representation learning & interpretability. Plus a cool project on #AI, #robotics & #sustainable food production. Interested in a #postdoc? DM me!.
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Unser Direktor @bschoelkopf hält dieses Jahr die Weihnachtsvorlesung der @Leopoldina. Thema am Donnerstag, den 7.12. ab 18:30 Uhr: Die Kybernetische Revolution. Den Link zum Livestream gibt es hier: .#KI #MachineLearning #Causality #MaxPlanck #AI
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Die reale Welt künstlich nachbilden: @JustusThies forscht an der #KI basierten Erfassung & Synthese sowie im Bereich der Digitalen Forensik. Zum 1.4. tritt er eine Stelle als #MaxPlanck-Forschungsgruppenleiter an:
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Bernhard Schölkopf @bschoelkopf who today was awarded the Körber Prize in Hamburg, made headlines today: @ZDF heute Journal, @ARDde Tagesthemen and @3sat show Nano reported (among others): #KoerberPreis @maxplanckpress #MachineLearning #AI #KI.
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This is wonderful! Our MPI for Intelligent Systems is featured in the latest @ColdFusion_TV clip on #Nanorobots! We love it! Well done Dagogo! #WeLove#Science @maxplanckpress #MaxPlanck.
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Bernhard Schölkopf elected #ACMFellow 2017. for his contributions to the theory and practice of machine learning. Congratulations!.@maxplanckpress @TheOfficialACM @bschoelkopf #AI #Intelligentsystems #Tuebingen
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Max Planck #ComputerVision and #AI spin-off #Meshcapade won a start-up award and today we‘re filming a clip for the award ceremony in picturesque #Tübingen where their success story began and continues to thrive. @Cyber_Valley @Michael_J_Black
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Congratulations to Christian Gumbsch for defending his Ph.D.! It is summa cum laude! Christian began his doctorate at MPI-IS & the University of #Tübingen in 2019 under the supervision of @GMartius. In his Ph.D., Chris studied #ReinforcementLearning and planning systems. #AI #KI
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