
City of Stockholm – Senseable Stockholm Lab: Unpacking perceived safety in urban environments
The City of Stockholm has very high targets for improving the perceived safety among the population in urban environments. In the research project Senseable Stockholm Lab, researchers from KTH and MIT join forces with city employees to develop new digital methodologies […]
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IVA: Small and medium-sized companies’ digital transformation – challenges and opportunities
That the manufacturing industry in Sweden and its partners, both small and medium-sized companies, can take advantage of all the possibilities of digitization is of decisive importance for the companies and Sweden’s competitiveness. Four out of five jobs are created […]
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Region Stockholm: Innovations in Healthcare with human needs in focus, benefitting from digital transformation and technologies
Research and Innovation in Healthcare are vital parts of Region Stockholm’s daily work. Research that leads to knowledge and insights can lead to innovation, but innovation can also stem from ideas related to process development, new technical solutions, etc. Innovations […]
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Scania: Perfect road traffic information powered by 6G – but what about privacy?
The drive to make road transport safer, more effective and less polluting has been going on since the automobile’s introduction. One of the most recent pushes is the one for so-called cooperative intelligent transports systems (C-ITS), where vehicles and other […]
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Additional four Research pairs and three Research pairs consolidator projects
The funding instrument Digital Futures Research pairs is intended to foster collaboration between two young researchers who obtained their doctoral degrees, not more than ten years ago. The instrument aims to identify new research collaborations that can develop into a […]
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Five new Demonstrator projects to foster societal outreach
The Digital Futures research programme continues to expand, adding five new 2-year Demonstrator projects. The projects focus on a mix of topics, such as semi-automated online math tutoring, road traffic noise simulation, medical imaging, sidewalk mobility and mobile robots. Demonstrator […]
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AstraZeneca joins Digital Futures Industrial & Societal Partnership Programme
Digitalization has the potential to create a more resource-efficient and sustainable society. With Digital Futures, a new research centre is emerging with great relevance for society, both in Sweden and globally. Since Digital Futures was established in 2020 by KTH […]
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Digital Futures faculty members elevated to IEEE Fellows of 2023
Recognizing the achievements of its members is an important part of the mission of IEEE. Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for elevation to IEEE Fellow. Less than 0.1% […]
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I enjoy finding solutions to complicated problems, and have a natural curiosity for exploring new areas!
Jiang Hu is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received a B.S. degree in optical engineering from Zhejiang University (China) in 1990, an M.S. degree in physics in 1997 and the […]
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Nikolaus Forgo: What Covid-19 has taught us on how to teach and think about Data Protection in Europe
What Covid-19 has (not) taught us on how to teach and think (about Data Protection) in Europe was the topic raised by Nikolaus Forgo, Professor of IT and IP Law, Universität Wien, Head of the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at […]
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Digital Reset with Steffen Lange, Per Bolund and Jytte Guteland – register latest 14 December!
Welcome to the Swedish launch of the report Digital Reset – Redirecting Technologies for the Deep Sustainability Transformation. The report presents principles for how developments within digitalization can support sustainability. It is based on a Science in Dialogue project with […]
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Alon Y. Halevy – Director Facebook AI: Attending Digitalize in Stockholm was truly inspiring!
Online social networks provide a platform for sharing information and free expression. However, these networks are also used for malicious purposes, such as distributing misinformation and hate speech, selling illegal drugs, and coordinating sex trafficking or child exploitation. Keeping users […]
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