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21 Oct Resilien-Tech. “Resilience by Design”: a strategy for the technology issues of the future”

National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
2014
The digital networks that characterise today’s world, together with the demographic change occurring in Germany and the growing frequency of extreme events are resulting in the emergence of new threats that are increasing the vulnerability of our modern industrialised society. Combined with the continual diversification of safety and security risks, this means that disasters are capable of causing ever more serious harm. In order to continue protecting people and infrastructure against future environmental, economic and social damage, it will be necessary to firmly embed preventive measures in our society and ensure that the right lessons are learned from the past. The concept of resilience provides a holistic approach to this problem that attaches equal importance to the technological and social dimensions and helps to minimise the threats to our safety and security. Accordingly, acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering launched the “Resilien-Tech” project with the aim of improving our understanding of this concept and enabling security researchers to put it to practical use.The authors of this STUDY analyse the concept of resilience from a civil security research perspective, with particular emphasis on the issue of critical infrastructure protection. They also identify concrete approaches to developing resilient technological and socioeconomic systems.
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21 Oct Future Business Clouds Cloud computing in Germany – requirements, national activities and global competition

National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
2014
The unabated growth of the Internet is triggering fundamental changes to the world we live in. Advances in information and communication technology are leading to the emergence of a digital service landscape where almost every product or service.
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21 Oct Living in a networked world. Integrated research agenda Cyber-Physical Systems (agendaCPS)

National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
2015
The rapid progress of information technology allows for increasingly powerful software intensive embedded systems (machines) executing integrated applications connected by and to global networks. Thus these systems are more and more networked among each other, but also with data and services on the Internet. Intelligent solutions originate which gather processes of the living environment by means of sensors and actuators, connect them to virtual software worlds and interpret, monitor and control these processes in interaction with people. In this way, so-called Cyber-Physical Systems evolve – a living in a networked world. The interlocking applications include smart cities, social infrastructures with integrated telemedicine care, enhanced connected mobility with fully or semi-autonomous driving cars and traffic systems, safety, security and privacy as well as networked production and the sustainable energy turnaround.
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21 Oct SMART SERVICE WELT Recommendations for the Strategic Initiative Web-based Services for Businesses Final Report Short Version

National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
2015
The Smart Service Welt 2025 vision focuses on manufacturing, both to provide continuity with the vision of Industrie 4.0 and because Germany is starting from a particularly strong position in this area. Nevertheless, it can also be directly carried over to other fields of application. Automated marketplaces for logistics service providers are already a reality in the private transport sector today and can be expected to become established in heavy goods transport in the future. Data-based optimisation of the value chain – covering everything from seed quantities and fertiliser type to the entire harvest processing and logistics chain – will become increasingly widespread in the agricultural sector. Healthcare will benefit from significant gains in effectiveness and efficiency as a result of both decentralized monitoring of patients’ condition through continuous data collection and personalised treatment thanks to the improved diagnoses enabled by intelligent algorithms. Contributors: Dirk, Stocksmeier, Wolfgang, Wahlster, August-Wilhelm, Scheer, Dieter, Schweer
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21 Oct Supercomputing: enlarging the scope of the reality chances

Real Academia de Ingenieria (Spain) (RAI)
2011
La supercomputación: ampliando el ámbito de lo posible. The book introduces and describes the Supercomputers as a tool to transform the social and economic processes.
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21 Oct From machines to humans. The art of decision making

Real Academia de Ingenieria (Spain) (RAI)
2013
De máquinas a humanos. El arte de la toma de decisiones. The study and research about the efficient integration of people and machines decisions are showed as a key challenge for the progress of the society, our welfare and of our knowledge.
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21 Oct Microprocessors on Mars

Real Academia de Ingenieria (Spain) (RAI)
2015
The book describes the way a research team designed and manufactures a silicon microchip for the Rover Curiosity for its trip to Mars.
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21 Oct IAE Response to National Broadband Plan

Irish Academy of Engineering (IAE)
2015
IAE Response to National Broadband Plan, Ireland’s Broadband Intervention Strategy. Higher capacity speeds, a future proofed network and the state retention of strategic asset (network) recommended.
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21 Oct Chips on Mars

Real Academia de Ingenieria (Spain) (RAI)
2015
The way his researchers team to produce a silicon microchip for the Rover Curiosity, wich after two years is still exploring Mars atmosphere. Cómo su equipo de investigadores llegó a fabricar un microchip de silicio, con resistencias de platino, con el que el sensor de viento a bordo del Rover Curiosity sigue explorando dos años después la atmósfera marciana.
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