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Sensor technology finds leaks and tracks contaminants in drinking water

09/02/2024

Researchers at Stockholm University, KTH and RISE are developing sensor technology to address drinking water…

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Gia Destouni is elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and leads a groundbreaking research project on African freshwater systems

08/02/2024

Georgia (Gia) Destouni, Digital Futures Faculty, Professor at Stockholm University and Guest Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, has…

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All the way from Canada – meet Digital Futures Scholar in residence, Baris Fidan!

01/02/2024

Baris Fidan is a Professor at the University of Waterloo (UW), Canada, in the Department…

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International conference Innovations for the Blue Planet 2024

31/01/2024

The International Conference 2024: Innovations for the Blue Planet is to be held from 23…

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Alex Taylor: What we research and how we go about doing research is intimately connected!

25/01/2024

Alex Taylor is a Reader in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He has…

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SAVE THE DATE: Open Research Days 18-19 April 2024

23/01/2024

Mark your calendars for Digital Futures Open Research Days on 18-19 April 2024! The program…

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AI can detect infection before it’s too late!

22/01/2024

Researchers from KTH, in collaboration with Neonatal care at Karolinska University Hospital, have developed an…

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Book of Abstracts for International Conference on Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Management 2023

22/01/2024

Now you can DOWNLOAD the Book of Abstracts for International Conference on Digitalization and Artificial…

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How to reduce your digital environmental and climate impact

22/01/2024

In a recent article “Så påverkar din internetanvändning miljö och klimat” (How to reduce your…

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Announcing call for Summer Research Internship Programme (SRI) 2024

19/01/2024

This is the third call for Digital Futures Summer Research Internship (SRI) Programme, which was established…

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Guessing decoding for CRC is a new research field and has potential to be applied in future smart factory, says Ming Zhan

19/01/2024

Ming Zhan – a Member of IEEE – received his master’s degree in communication and…

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2nd Future of Ukraine, Powered by Region Stockholm, Stockholm, February 15-16

18/01/2024

How to unite Ukrainian Ecosystem with leading stakeholders fostering Innovation in Sweden and globally? The…

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Digital Futures project equipping Stockholm for extreme weather

16/01/2024

Funded by Digital Futures, the research project “Improving resilience: Using insurance data to design better…

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Scholar-in-residence Bilge Mutlu: Do the highest quality work you can, and others will see the value in your work!

15/01/2024

Bilge Mutlu is a professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the…

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Revolutionary breakthrough in Programmable Matter: Solid-liquid phase change pumping unleashes unprecedented shape-shifting abilities

02/01/2024

In a groundbreaking study, Kerem Kaya and others in the team of Digital Futures researchers…

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Season’s Greetings!

20/12/2023

A big thank you to each of you for contributing to making Digital Futures a…

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