UC Berkeley and KTH – expanding opportunities for cross-national collaboration
University of California, Berkeley and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden met in Berkeley on May 10 to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that calls for expanded educational and research exchanges across a wide range of technological fields, […]
Read moreThe Second Drone Challenge at the Digital Futures Drone Arena, May 16-17, 2023
It’s time for the Second Challenge at the Digital Futures Drone Arena, a one-of-a-kind interactive event with aerial drone technology. This year, we challenge the participating teams to move together with drones in beautiful, curious, and provocative ways. We provide […]
Read moreXylem joins Digital Futures Industrial & Societal Partnership Programme
Digitalization has the potential to create a more resource-efficient and viable society. With the vision to shape a sustainable society through digital transformation, Digital Futures, is now welcoming Xylem as a new partner. Xylem is a leading water technology company […]
Read moreDoes your research impact sports?
Sport ranges from elite activities on a global level in world championships and Olympic Games to exercise and wellbeing for all members of society. KTH is collaborating with both the Swedish Sports Confederation and the Swedish Olympic Committee around sports […]
Read moreOpen Research Days – inspiration and knowledge sharing at its best
Digital Futures hosted the Open Research Days on 20-21 April, covering research project presentations, greeting new partners AstraZeneca, Saab and Xylem, panel discussions, networking and mingling. The program on Day 1 included a variety of topics such as 6G Communication Sensing Computing, […]
Read moreScholar-in-residence Simon Knight focuses on how people learn to engage ethically with AI
Simon Knight is the Director of the University of Technology Sydney, Centre for Research on Education in a Digital Society (UTS: CREDS), previous co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Learning Analytics, and Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Award (DECRA) Fellow. […]
Read moreDigital Futures HiSS Workshop – registration is open!
Welcome to Digital Futures HiSS Workshop on 3-5 May! Smart cities of a digitalised society are envisioned as cyber-physical-human systems of sustainable economic growth that enhance human well-being. The grand challenge for designing and developing smart cities is to achieve […]
Read moreHRI Pioneers Mingle at Digital Futures – Bringing Together Researchers from All over the World!
On March 14th, around 60 researchers gathered at Digital Futures at the HRI Pioneers mingle event. The event was organized by Sanne van Waveren and Bryce Ikeda, the General Chairs of the 18th annual Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop, which was held […]
Read moreApply for Digital Futures Summer Research Internships Programme
As part of Digital Futures’ goal of offering training in the new Science of Digital Transformation, a Summer Research Internships (SRI) Programme was established in 2022. The SRI programme is directed toward students on the bachelor’s and master’s levels, who will have […]
Read moreChantal Mutimukwe: Privacy is also about power, and dignity, and to lose it may threaten the human being.
On 8 March, the world celebrates International Women’s Day. At Digital Futures, we have a number of excellent female researchers, and Chantal Mutimukwe is one of them. Chantal Mutimukwe is a postdoc researcher at the Department of Computer Systems and Sciences […]
Read moreAnnouncing calls for ISPP Postdoc Projects, Industrial Innovation Projects and Societal Innovation Projects
Digital Futures is announcing calls for ISPP Postdoc Projects, Societal Innovation Projects and Industrial Innovation Projects. The proposal submission deadline is 9 June 2023. Second call for ISPP Postdoc projects ISPP postdoc projects must have a duration of 2 years. The projects will […]
Read moreWomen Reclaiming the City – International Research on Urbanism, Architecture, and Planning
On 8 March, the world celebrates International Women’s Day. “For too long, we have largely understood the world through the male voice. Women Reclaiming the City changes that. With this anthology, Tigran Haas brings to us the voices of the […]
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