News (2016)23 December 2016|AdministrationThe Knowledge Technology Group Wishes a Happy ChristmasPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyWith best wishes for a Happy Christmas, Season greetings and a Successful New Year.16 December 2016|ResearchRobot Workshop of the SECURE Project at Fraunhofer IPA in StuttgartPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe three SECURE fellows of the Knowledge Technology Group have been to the 3rd SECURE Project Workshop at Fraunhofer IPA in Stuttgart from December 14-16 2016. The three days offered a comprehensive...15 November 2016|EventVisit from the Fundus Theatre in HamburgPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe Knowledge Technology group was visited by the Fundus Theatre. The Fundus Theatre is a theatre in Hamburg which specialises in performances for children. The theatre presents a program called...11 November 2016|ResearchKnowledge Technology Student Won Merit StudentshipPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyIAS student Nikhil Churamani has been awarded a merit scholarship from the Universität Hamburg. Merit scholarships are intended for outstanding international students from all degree programs who are...28 September 2016|ResearchDoctoral Thesis Defense of Pablo BarrosPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyPhD student Pablo Barros defended his doctoral thesis "Modelling Affection Mechanisms using Deep and Self-Organizing Neural Networks" successfully. Pablo was working within the context of the Gestures...19 September 2016|ResearchBio-inspired Social Robot Learning in Home Scenarios Workshop at IROS 2016Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyKnowledge Technology is co-organizing a workshop at the 29th International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Daejeon, Korea. The workshop titled "Bio-inspired Social Robot...4 July 2016|ResearchKnowledge Technology Paper wins "Best Paper Award" at the 20th Robocup International SymposiumPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe Paper "Speck, D., Barros, P., Weber, C. and Wermter, S. Ball Localization for Robocup Soccer using Convolutional Neural Networks" won the "Best Paper Award for Engineering Contribution" at the...20 June 2016|ResearchDoctoral Thesis Defense of Stefan HeinrichPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyPhD student Stefan Heinrich defended his doctoral thesis "Natural language acquisition in recurrent neural architectures" successfully. Stefan was working within the context of Natural Language...23 May 2016|ResearchKnowledge Technology receives funding for a EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN)Photo: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyThe PhD training programme "SOCRATES" (SOcial Cognitive Robotic Agents in The European Society) is focused on increasing interaction quality of service robots in the caregiving domain. Intelligent...3 May 2016|ResearchDoctoral Thesis Defense of Nicolás Ignacio Navarro GuerreroPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyPhD student Nicolás Ignacio Navarro Guerrero defended his doctoral thesis "Neurocomputational Mechanisms for Adaptive Self-Preservative Robot Behaviour" successfully. Nicolás was working within the...2 May 2016|ResearchTalk from Prof. Lowe on Lecture2GoProf. Lowe from the University of Skövde and the University of Gothenburg delivered a lecture about "Embodied Affective Decision Making in Robots" at the "Informatik Kolloquium". The lecture is...23 February 2016|EventKnowledge Technology presents bioinspired algorithms on two Nao robots at UnitagPhoto: UHH/Knowledge TechnologyAt the "Unitag" the University of Hamburg presents school students an overview of the different course of studies possible here. Knowledge Technology participated in this by giving a talk and a demo...