As part of a research project about the voice over IP program "Lync" we are looking for testusers.
Project start for DARWIN 4
The DARWIN4 project is focused on traffic monitoring and network-level measurements in an operational 2G/3G/4G mobile network. It continues a series of application-oriented projects initiated in 2004 with the first METAWIN project. The DARWIN4 project is embedded into an “ecosystem” of activities at FTW in the field of traffic monitoring that includes parallel projects of different types: strategic (mPlane, DEMONS, N-0), commercial activities, and other application-oriented COMET projects (e.g. ACE 3).
Acoustic voice recordings of normal, slow, and fast speech, conducted with students of the Bundes‐Blindenerziehungsinstitut ‐ BBI
Auditory textbooks for the blind and visually impaired - first recordings with students of BBI
Within the project SALB speech synthesis systems are evaluated together with blind and visually impaired students. The aim is to develop auditory textbooks that are specifically tailored for them. Now the first acoustic voice recordings of normal, slow, and fast speech were conducted with students of the Bundes‐Blindenerziehungsinstitut ‐ BBI at the Institut für Schallforschung.
Vijay K. Barghava, President of the IEEE Communications Society. Picture: Uphuyal
Vijay K. Bhargava Presenter at the FTW Telekommunications Forum
High-ranking visit at the FTW Telecommunications Forum on Friday, 7th of June 2013: Vijay K. Bhargava, President of the IEEE Communications Society, gave a lecture on "Research Issues for Energy Efficient Cellular Networks".
The Telecommunications Forum is a series of invited talks by experts from all over the world, where topics from the working areas of FTW are presented and discussed. This edition of the Telecommunications Forum was jointly organized by FTW and the Austrian IEEE Joint COM/MTT Chapter of the IEEE Section Austria.
Top marks for FTW by the Scientific Advisory Board
In May the newly appointed Scientific Advisory Board met for the first time at FTW. After area presentations, a poster session as well as the presentation of the themes for the COMET 2020 vision finally a conclusion was drawn: "FTW's achieved results are excellent."
The organizers of the Special Interest Session: Peter Fröhlich (FTW), Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg), and Jim Foley (Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center)
CHI 2013 Special Interest Group on Automotive UI
Beginning of May a Special Interest Session co-organized by a FTW took place as part of the CHI 2013 conference in Paris. Experts from different disciplines exchanged on issues and challenges of innovative user interfaces in the car. "Highlights this year included the management of different mobile devices in the car, enriching the user experience, as well as the connected car," says Peter Fröhlich, Area Manager at FTW and co-organizer of the session.
When machines communicate with each other - this was the 9th Information Technology Colloquium
For the year 2020 it is predicted that at least 12 billion devices will be connected via Internet. The key is a successful implementation of machine-to-machine solutions. This year's Information Technology Colloquium held on May 14 in Vienna was devoted to this topic. For nine years already OVE Austrian Electrotechnical Association, Vienna University of Technology, and FTW act as organizers of this prestigious series of lectures on information technology topics.
PRIAMUS Demo at CHI 2013
From April 29th to May 2nd, FTW presented an interactive prototype developed in the project PRIAMUS in Paris at CHI 2013 (ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), the leading conference on human-computer interaction. 3,700 participants from academia and industry could experiment with the novel interaction concept and discuss with the FTW researchers Matthias Baldauf and Peter Fröhlich.
Girl's Day at FTW
On April 25 the 12th Viennese Töchtertag took place. FTW also participated in the event organized by the City of Vienna and invited 15 girls to give them the possibility to get a close insight into a resaercher's life.
F.l.t.r. (c TU Graz): Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Horst Bischof, Univ.-Prof. DI DDr. Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Univ.-Prof. DI DDr. Harald Kainz, Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. Christian Vogel, MMMag. Dr. Andrea Hoffmann, O.Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Ulrich Bauer
Double award of the "Venia Docendi" to Thomas Zemen and Christian Vogel
In the context of the most senior academic examination, the habilitation, the "Venia Docendi" was awarded to two employees of FTW this week: To Dr. Thomas Zemen, Area Manager, and to Dr. Christian Vogel, Senior Researcher and Project Manager. Now both are in possesion of the "great teaching license for a scientific subject" in the fields of mobile communications and analog and digital signal processing.
FTW congratulates!
